IV.337-372

//**Aeneid**// **IV.337-372**

**pro re pauca loquar. neque ego hanc abscondere furto** In defense of my course of action I will speak a few (words). neither did i hope to hide //legal speak// **speravi (ne finge) fugam, nec coniugis umquam** this flight with stealth (don't pretend), nor did I ever hold out the marriage //coniugis: gen.//

**praetendi taedas aut haec in foedera veni.** torches or come into these treaties.

**340 me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam** If the fates allowed me to lead my life by my authorities

**auspiciis et sponte mea componere curas,** and to sooth my cares by my own will, //meis auspiciis: hyperbaton//

**urbem Troianam primum dulcesque meorum** I first would dwell in the Trojan city and i would cherish

**reliquias colerem, Priami tecta alta manerent,** the sweet remnants of my (people), the highs roofs of Priam would remain, //colorem: zeugma (two different meanings)//

**et recidiva manu posuissem Pergama victis.** and I would have established the reborn Troy with my hand for the conquered people. //victis: dative//

**345 sed nunc Italiam magnam Gryneus Apollo,** But now the Grynean Apollo ordered me to reach great Italy,

**Italiam Lyciae iussere capessere sortes;** The Lycian fates ordered me to reach Italy ; //asyndeton//

**hic amor, haec patria est. si te Karthaginis arces** This is my love, this is my homeland. If the Carthaginian citadels and the sight of the Libyan city //hic->hicc so long i// //both refer to Italy, each pronoun being attracted into the gender of its predicate noun//

**Phoenissam Libycaeque aspectus detinet urbis,** detain you, Phoenician woman,

**quae tandem Ausonia Teucros considere terra** what grudge is there (for you) that the Trojans settle on the Italian land at last?

**350 invidia est** (tibi)**? et nos fas (**est) **extera quaerere regna.** Also it is divine will that we seek foreign realms.

**me patris Anchisae, quotiens umentibus umbris** As often as the night covers the land with dewy shadows,

**nox operit terras, quotiens astra ignea surgunt,** as often as the burning stars rise, the troubled image of my father Anchises

**admonet in somnis et turbida terret imago;** admonishes me in my dreams and frightens me;

**me puer Ascanius capitisque iniuria cari,** the boy Ascanius warns me and the injustice to his dear head (also advises me) //caput: metonymy// //use admonet: ellipsis//

**355 quem regno Hesperiae fraudo et fatalibus arvis.** who I deprive of rule and the destined fields of Hesperia.

**nunc etiam interpres divum Iove missus ab ipso** Now even the agent of the gods, having been sent by Jove himself,

**(testor utrumque caput) celeres mandata per auras** reported the commands through the quick air (I swear by each head):

**detulit: ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi** I myself saw the god in the clear light

**intrantem muros vocemque his auribus hausi.** entering the walls and I drank in the voice with these ears.

**360 desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis;** Cease to inflame me and you with your complaints;

**Italiam non sponte sequor.'** I do not pursue Italy by my wish."

**Talia dicentem iamdudum aversa tuetur** Having turned away for a long time she watches him speaking such things

**huc illuc volvens oculos totumque pererrat** turning her eyes here, there and she surveys all of him

**luminibus tacitis et sic accensa profatur:** with silent eyes and says thus having been inflamed;

**365 'nec tibi (est) diva parens generis nec Dardanus auctor,** "You have neither the divine parents of the race nor the father of the Trojans,

**perfide, sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens** treacherous one, but, The Caucasus rough with hard rocks for you

**Caucasus Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres.** and the Hyrcanean tigers move to you their udders. //You were suckled by tigers, born in this awful place (saying nasty things about him)//

**nam quid dissimulo aut quae me ad maiora reservo?** for why do I pretend or to what greater wrongs do I reserve myself?

**num fletu ingemuit nostro? num lumina flexit?** He doesn't lament for our tears, does he? He has't turned his eyes? //Aeneas isn't regarding her troubles by looking at her// //fletu:abl. of cause//

**370 num lacrimas victus dedit aut miseratus amantem est?** He, conquered, hasn't given tears or hasn't pitied the lover? //num, num, num: tricolon, anaphora//

**quae quibus anteferam? iam iam nec maxima Iuno** What will I prefer to what? Now, now neither greatest Juno

**nec Saturnius haec oculis pater aspicit aequis.** nor Saturnian father looks upon these things with fair eyes. //Saturnian father : Jupiter//