XII.887-918


 * //Aeneid// XII.887-918**

Aeneas pursues in return and brandishes the huge
 * Aeneas instat contra telumque coruscat **

tree-like weapon, and thus he speaks from his fierce heart:
 * ingens arboreum, et saevo sic pectore fatur:  **

"Then what delay is there now? Or why do you draw back now, Turnus?
 * 'quae nunc deinde mora est? aut quid iam, Turne, retractas?  **

(It must be struggled) not with running, it must be struggled with savage arms, hand-to-hand. //it must be struggled: we must struggle//
 * 890 non cursu, saevis certandum est comminus armis.   **

Turn yourself into all shapes and draw together whatever //reference to God of sea who could shape-shift//
 * verte omnes tete in facies et contrahe quidquid  **

you are able to whether with spirits or with skill; Choose to follow
 * sive animis sive arte vales; opta ardua pennis  **

with wings the lofty stars and to bury yourself, having been shut in hollow land."
 * astra sequi clausumque cava te condere terra.' **

He (says) shaking his head: "You fiery words do not terrify me,
 * ille caput quassans: 'non me tua fervida terrent  **

wild (guy); the gods terrify me and the enemy Jupiter." //Turnus understands that he should fear the gods and not Aeneas --> Juno always took him out of battle so he knows this is his final destiny (to die against Aeneas)//
 * 895 dicta, ferox; di me terrent et Iuppiter hostis.' **

having uttered not more words, he spotted a huge rock,
 * nec plura effatus saxum circumspicit ingens,  **

a huge ancient rock, which was lying by chance in the field,
 * saxum antiquum ingens, campo quod forte iacebat,  **

a boundary, having been placed in the field, so that it might resolve a dispute in the fields. //limes apposition with the rock//
 * limes agro positus litem ut discerneret arvis.  **

Scarcely twelve chosen (people) could support it on their neck, //it = rock//
 * vix illum lecti bis sex cervice subirent,  **

such as the bodies of men, the earth now produces;
 * 900 qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus; **

He, that hero, was throwing it, having been snatched, with his trembling hand against the enemy
 * ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hostem  **

rising taller and stirred up by his flight. //ille...heros: hyperbaton//
 * altior insurgens et cursu concitus heros.  **

But he recognizes himself neither running nor going
 * sed neque currentem se nec cognoscit euntem **

or raising it with his hand or moving the huge rock;
 * tollentemve manu saxumve immane moventem;  **

His knees give out, his chill blood congeals with cold. //gelidus, frigore: pleonasm// //making a connection between Aeneas and Turnus with cold blood//
 * 905 genua labant, gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis.   **

Then the stone itself of the man having been turned through the empty vacuum //vacuum inane: pleonasm//
 * tum lapis ipse viri vacuum per inane volutus  **

it did not traverse the whole space nor did it hit its target. //Turnus fails//
 * nec spatium evasit totum neque pertulit ictum.  **

just as in sleep, when sluggish rest has pressed one's eyes
 * ac velut in somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit  **

with night, in vain we seem to want to extend our eager paths
 * nocte quies, nequiquam avidos extendere cursus **

and in we, unwell, fall in the middle of the attempts;
 * 910 velle videmur et in mediis conatibus aegri **

a tongue is not strong, the familiar strength in our body
 * succidimus; non lingua valet, non corpore notae  **

are not adequate and nor does the voice or the word follow:
 * sufficiunt vires nec vox aut verba sequuntur:  **

Thus the awful goddess denies success to Turnus
 * sic Turno, quacumque viam virtute petivit, **

wherever he sought a way with his virtue. then various feelings are turned
 * successum dea dira negat. tum pectore sensus **

in his heart; he gazes upon the Rutulians and the city
 * 915 vertuntur varii; Rutulos aspectat et urbem **

and he delays with fear and he begins to dread that death threatens,
 * cunctaturque metu letumque instare tremescit,  **

he sees not where he would snatch himself away, not with which strength he would strive against the enemy,
 * nec quo se eripiat, nec qua vi tendat in hostem,  **

not anywhere his chariot(s) or his sister the charioteer.
 * nec currus usquam videt aurigamve sororem. **