IV.271-308

//**Aeneid**// **IV.271-308**

**quid struis? aut qua spe Libycis teris otia terris?** What are you contriving? or with what hope do you waste leisure(s) on Libyan lands?

**si te nulla movet tantarum gloria rerum** if no glory of such great things moves you //synchesis//

**[nec super ipse tua moliris laude laborem,]** [nor do you yourself undertake the hardship for your own glory,] //brackets: poor copying error//

**Ascanium surgentem et spes heredis Iuli** Regard growing Ascanius and the hope of the heir Iulus, //chiasmus//

**275 respice, cui regnum Italiae Romanaque tellus** to whom the kingdom of Italy and the Roman land

**debetur.' tali Cyllenius ore locutus** is owed." Mercury, having spoken with such a face //enjambment (and on line before)//

**mortales visus medio sermone reliquit** left the mortal sights in the mid-speech //sermone: abl.//

**et procul in tenuem ex oculis evanuit auram.** and in the distance he vanished from his eyes into thin air.

**At vero Aeneas aspectu obmutuit amens,** But indeed, mindless Aeneas stood speechless at the sight,

**280 arrectaeque horrore comae et vox faucibus haesit.** and his hair was raised with horror and his voice clung in his jaws. //missing sunt with arrectae// //(This has happened before)//

**ardet abire fuga dulcesque relinquere terras,** He burns to depart with flight and to relinquish the sweet lands, //ardet: fire --> love --> ironic (now he burns to leave)//

**attonitus tanto monitu imperioque deorum.** thunderstruck with such great warning and the order of the gods.

**heu quid agat? quo nunc reginam ambire furentem** Alas what should he do? With what speech should he now dare to conciliate //aga: deliberative//

**audeat adfatu? quae prima exordia sumat?** the raging queen? Which first beginnings should he employ? //sumat: deliberative// //raging queen: he knows she will be pissed off// //quid, quo, quae :polyptoton, tricolon//

**285 atque animum nunc huc celerem nunc dividit illuc** And he splits his swift spirit now here, now there

**in partesque rapit varias perque omnia versat.** and he seizes (his mind) into various parts and turns (it) through everything. //tricolon: saying he is trying to figure out how he's going to do this is said in three different ways//

**haec alternanti potior sententia visa est:** This opinion seemed preferable to him, wavering:

**Mnesthea Sergestumque vocat fortemque Serestum,** Then he calls Mnestheus and Sergestus and brave Serestus, //Mnesthea: greek acc.//

**(ut)  classem aptent taciti sociosque ad litora cogant,** so that they will, silent, equip the fleet and muster the comrades to the shore, //synchesis//

**290 arma parent et quae rebus sit causa novandis** prepare arms and conceal what the reason is for matters to be altered; //make an accuse for why he is leaving// //gerundive: novandis//

**dissimulent; sese interea, quando optima Dido** meanwhile, since the finest Dido //implied indirect statement from 291-293//

**nesciat et tantos rumpi non speret amores,** doesn't know and doesn't expect such loves to be broken/uttered, //rumpi amores: the expression is ambiguous: either Aeneas is counting on the likelihood that Dido will not reveal her true feeling publicly, or he thinks that nothing he can do can damage her love for him//

**temptaturum aditus et quae mollissima fandi** that he will test approaches and (will test) which times (are) the most easy for speaking, //indirect q's//

**tempora, quis rebus dexter modus. ocius omnes** which (is) the right method for the matters/things.

**295 imperio laeti parent et iussa facessunt.** All, happy, very swiftly obey his order and fulfill his commands. //parent takes dative?//

**At regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?)** But the queen suspected the deceits (who would be able to deceive the lover?) //possit: deliberative//

**praesensit, motusque excepit prima futuros** and she, fearing all, no matter how safe, first

**omnia tuta timens. eadem impia Fama furenti** understood future movements. The same wicked fame reported to her, raging, //furenti: pap (dative)//

**detulit armari classem cursumque parari.** that the fleet is being armed and the course is being prepared. //amari: pres. pass. inf.// //armari...parari: ind. statement//

**300 saevit inops animi totamque incensa per urbem** She, poor of soul, rages, and she raves, enraged, through the whole city

**bacchatur, qualis commotis excita sacris** just as a Thyias having been roused with the sacred things having been moved, //Thyias: follower of Bacchus//

**Thyias, ubi audito stimulant trieterica Baccho** when the triannual orgies rouse them with a cry of Baccho

**orgia nocturnusque vocat clamore Cithaeron.** and the nocturnal Ctihaeron calls them with a shout.

**tandem his Aenean compellat vocibus ultro:** At last she accosts Aeneas with these words further:

**305 'dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum** "Did you, traitorous one, even expect to be able to conceal such a great crime, //dissumulare relates back to when Aeneas tells his troops what to do//

**posse nefas tacitusque mea decedere terra?** and, silent, to depart from my land?

**nec te noster amor nec te data dextera quondam** Does not our love, does not right hand having been given,

**nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido?** does not Dido about to die with a cruel death hold you? //nec: tricolon anaphora crescens// //moritura: future act. participle// //refers to self in third person: insanity(?)//