I.418-440


 * //Aeneid// I.418-440**



Aeneas and Achates, rendered invisible by Venus, proceed to Carthage and admire the rising city. Whole point of cloud is virgil's desire to let Aeneas see the city and get a closer view of city and see how friends are received in friendly manner by dido

Meanwhile they hurried along the way, where the path shows. //adverbial qua// //corripuerunt//
 * Corripuere viam interea, qua semita monstrat. **

And now they were climbing a hill, which, with imposing size, hangs over the city
 * iamque ascendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi  **

and looks at the opposite citadels from above.
 * 420 imminet adversasque aspectat desuper arces. **

Aeneas wonders at the mass (of the city), previously huts, //rome was once huts//
 * miratur molem Aeneas, magalia quondam, **

he admires the gates and the noise and the pavements of the roads. //asyndeton and anaphora// //and polysyndeton// //consonance//
 * miratur portas strepitumque et strata viarum.  **

The Tyrians press on, being eager: a part (presses on) to lead out the walls
 * instant ardentes Tyrii: pars ducere muros **

and to work on the citadel and to roll up the rocks with their hands, //bunch of synchises around here// //inf. acc....//
 * molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa,  **

a part to chose a place for the roof (house) and to enclose it by a ditch; //tectu: synecdoche (special metonomy->part for whole)// //asyndeton and anaphora//
 * 425 pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco; **

they choose laws and magistrates and the sacred senate.
 * iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum.  **

Here some guys dig out a port; others locate deep foundations
 * hic portus alii effodiunt; hic alta theatris **

for the theaters here, they cut out huge columns
 * fundamenta locant alii, immanesque columnas  **

from the rock, tall ornaments for (dat.) future stages //decora acc. pl. b/c in apposition with columnas//
 * rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.  **

Just as work busies bees through the flowering countrysides in a new summer under the sun,
 * 430 qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura **

when they lead forth the race of mature children
 * exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos **

or when they stow the liquid honeys (n. pl.) and
 * educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella  **

stretch the cells with sweet nectar,
 * stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas,  **

or accept the burdens of the ones arriving (substantive pres act part), or they keep the
 * aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto **

drones, a lazy swarm, off the hives with a line having been made;
 * 435 ignavum fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent; **

the work boils (because busy hive looks like boiling water) and the fragrant honeys smell with thyme.
 * fervet opus redolentque thymo fragrantia mella. **

"O fortunate ones, whose walls now rise!"
 * “O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!'” **

Aeneas says and looks up at the summits of the city.
 * Aeneas ait et fastigia suspicit urbis.  **

He bears himself having been enclosed by mist (wonderful with respect to speach) //dictu is abl supine//
 * infert se saeptus nebula (mirabile dictu) **


 * 440 per medios, miscetque viris neque cernitur ulli. **

through the midst (of men), and he mixes with men and he is not perceived by anyone. //miscet takes dat.// //ulli is dat. of agent//