I.148-169


 * //Aeneid// I.148-169 **

And just as when a riot often has risen in a great people and the inglorious crowd rages in its minds and now torches and rocks fly, anger supplies weapons; // asyndeton // then, if by chance they (the crowd) caught sight of some man, grave in his piety and in his merits, they are silent and they stand with raised ears; // conspexere -> conspexerunt: syncopation // // arrectisque auribus: abl. abs // he (the orator) rules their spirits with words and soothes their hearts: // 148-153 giant simile comparing Neptune calming seas to orator calming crowds->Augustus was good at this so that's why // thus the whole uproar of the sea fell, when the father (Neptune), looking out on the level plains and having been carried in the open sky, turns the horses and flying he gives reins (to let loose) to the obedient chariot. The tired followers of Aeneas strive to seek which shores are nearest with their course/flight, // -dea thing: usually offspring but followers in this case // and they are turned towards the shores of Italy or? a region of North Africa. The place is in a long inlet: the island makes a harbor with the projection of its sides, on which every wave from the sea is broken and splits itself into the withdrawn bays. // sinus, scindit, sese: consonance (and maybe sound of waves?) // Here and there, huge crags and twin cliffs tower into the sky, under the summit of which, the protected waves are silent far and wide; then the background hangs over from above with a quivering forest, and the grove, dark with a shuttering shade, threatens/hangs over. Under the opposing face of rock, there is a cave with hanging rocks; within, there are sweet waters and seats in living rock, the home of the Nymphs. Here not any chains hold the tired ships, // domus apposition with the cave // // fessas naves: personification // an anchor does not hold to the crooked bite.
 * ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est  **
 * seditio saevitque animis ignobile vulgus  **
 * 150 iamque faces et saxa volant, furor arma ministrat; **
 * tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem **
 * conspexere, silent arrectisque auribus astant; **
 * ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet:  **
 * sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam **
 * 155 prospiciens genitor caeloque invectus aperto **
 * flectit equos curruque volans dat lora secundo. **
 * Defessi Aeneadae quae proxima litora ** (sunt) ** cursu  **
 * contendunt petere, et Libyae vertuntur ad oras.  **
 * est in secessu longo locus: insula portum **
 * 160 efficit obiectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto **
 * frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.  **
 * hinc atque hinc vastae rupes geminique minantur  **
 * in caelum scopuli, quorum sub vertice late **
 * aequora tuta silent; tum silvis scaena coruscis **
 * 165 desuper, horrentique atrum nemus imminet umbra. **
 * fronte sub adversa scopulis pendentibus antrum ** (est) ** ; **
 * intus ** (sunt) ** aquae dulces vivoque sedilia saxo, **
 * Nympharum domus. hic fessas non vincula naves **
 * ulla tenent, unco non alligat ancora morsu.  **