IV.413-449

//**Aeneid**// **IV.413-449**

**ire iterum in lacrimas, iterum temptare precando** Again she is forced to go into tears, again she is forced to try [Aeneas] by praying and, **cogitur et supplex animos summittere amori,** a suppliant, to submit her spirits to love, **415 ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.** will she leave anything untried, about to die in vain. **'Anna, vides toto properari litore circum:** 'Anna, you see it is hurried around the whole shore: **undique convenere; vocat iam carbasus auras,** they convened on all sides; now the sail calls the breezes, **puppibus et laeti nautae imposuere coronas.** and the happy sailors put the crowns on the ships (sterns) //metonomy// **hunc ego si potui tantum sperare dolorem,** If i were able to expect this so great pain, **420 et perferre, soror, potero (**fut ind)**. miserae hoc tamen unum** I will be able to endure it as well, sister. Nevertheless, perform this one (thing) **exsequere, Anna, mihi; solam nam perfidus ille** to miserable me, Anna; for that treacherous one honored you alone **te colere, arcanos etiam tibi credere sensus;** he even trusted his secret feelings to you //historical->translated like past// //asyndeton// **sola viri molles aditus et tempora noras.** you alone had known the soft approaches and the times of the man. **i, soror, atque hostem supplex adfare superbum:** go, sister, and address the proud enemy, as a suppliant: **425 non ego cum Danais Troianam exscindere gentem** I did not conspire at Aulis with the Greeks to destroy the Trojan people **Aulide iuravi classemve ad Pergama misi,** nor did I send my fleet to Troy, //Aulis: port in Eastern Greece from which the Greek fleet set sail to attack Troy// **nec patris Anchisae cinerem manesve revelli:** nor did I tear up the dead ash of father Anchises //hendiadys// **cur mea dicta negat duras demittere in aures?** Why does he refuse to allow my words into his hard ears? **quo ruit? extremum hoc miserae det munus amanti:** Where is he rushing? Let him give this final gift to the miserable lover: **430 exspectet facilemque fugam ventosque ferentes.** and let him await for a favorable flight and bearing winds. **non iam coniugium antiquum, quod prodidit, oro,** Now I do not beg for the ancient marriage, which he betrayed, **nec pulchro ut Latio careat regnumque relinquat:** ** nor do I beg that he miss beautiful Latium and leave behind your kingdom: ** ** //ind command// ** **tempus inane peto, requiem spatiumque furori,** I seek empty time, I seek rest and space for madness, //elipsis// //asyndeton// **dum mea me victam doceat fortuna dolere.** until my fortune teaches me, conquered, to suffer. **435 extremam hanc oro veniam (miserere sororis),** I pray for this final favor (pity your sister), **quam mihi cum dederit cumulatam morte remittam.'** which when he will have given (it) to me I will repay (the favor) having been heaped up with death.' **Talibus orabat, talesque miserrima fletus** She was praying with such (words), and the most miserable sister **fertque refertque soror. sed nullis ille movetur** both bears and bears back such tears. But he is moved //different traditions with Aeneas and Anna together// **fletibus aut voces ullas tractabilis audit;** by no tears nor does he, gentle, hear any voices; //different Aeneas than we saw before// **440 fata obstant placidasque viri deus obstruit aures.** the fates oppose (him) and the g-d blocks the calm ears of the man. //transferred epithet? calm man// **ac velut annoso validam cum robore quercum** and just as the Alpine north winds strive among themselves to uproot with blowings the oak sturdy with aged strength, //abl of manner needs cum// **Alpini Boreae nunc hinc nunc flatibus illinc** now here now there; **eruere inter se certant; it stridor, et altae** The noise (creaking->the trees) goes, and the tall //it stridor: assonance-> creaking trees// **consternunt terram concusso stipite frondes;** leaves strew the earth [they are knocked down] with the trunk having been struck. **445 ipsa haeret scopulis et quantum vertice ad auras** (The tree) itself clings to rocks and as much as it reaches to airy breezes with its top, **aetherias, tantum radice in Tartara tendit:** so much it extends into Tartarus with its root: **haud secus adsiduis hinc atque hinc vocibus heros** Not otherwise the hero is beaten here and there by constant voices //similes often resolved like this// **tunditur, et magno persentit pectore curas;** and he feels the cares with his great heart; **mens immota manet, lacrimae volvuntur inanes.** the mind remains unmoved and the useless tears are turned.

Aeneas being compared to steady tree