I.387-417

//**Aeneid**// **I.387-417**



**“Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras** "Whoever you are, not hated by the g-ds, you consume the airs of life, //consume airs of life-> you is alive aeneas//

**vitalis carpis, Tyriam qui adveneris urbem;** you who have arrived to the Tyrian city;

**perge modo atque hinc te reginae ad limina perfer.** proceed now and take yourself from here to the thresholds of the queen.

**390 namque tibi reduces socios classemque relatam** //[esse]// for I announce to you that your comrades have been restored //reduces socios classem relatam: abba//

**nuntio et in tutum versis Aquilonibus actam** //[esse]//**,** and your fleet has been brought back and driven into safety with the north winds having been turned,

**ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes.** if my false parents have not taught me the augury in vain.

**aspice bis senos laetantes agmine cycnos,** look at the twice six swans rejoicing in a line,

**aetheria quos lapsa plaga Iovis ales aperto** whom the bird of Jove, having slipped from the region of the upper airs, was throwing into confusion in the open //Bird of Jove is eagle//

**395 turbabat caelo; nunc terras ordine longo** sky; now they seem either to seize lands in a long line,

**aut capere aut captas iam despectare videntur:** or to look down on the already captured (lands): //Aeneas' ships have landed safely and others are within sight//

**ut reduces illi ludunt stridentibus alis** just as they play, with rustling wings,

**et coetu cinxere polum, cantusque dedere,** and girded the heaven in a flock, and gave songs, //tense change for single actions instead of continuous//

**haud aliter puppesque tuae pubesque tuorum** not otherwise both your ships and the young men of your people, //tuorum (virorum)->sustantive// //que que maybe polysyndeton//

**400 aut portum tenet aut pleno subit ostia velo.** either hold the port or approach the harbors with a full sail.

**perge modo et, qua te ducit via, dirige gressum.”** proceed now and, where the road leads you, direct your gait."

**Dixit et avertens rosea cervice refulsit,** She said and, turning, she shined with/from her pink neck,

**ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem** and her ambrosial hairs exhaled a divine fragrance from her head;

**spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos,** her garment flowed down to the bottom of her feet (cool because she was wearing different stuff before), //spiraverunt//

**405 et vera incessu patuit dea. ille ubi matrem** and the true g-ddess was evident in her walk. He, when he recognized his mother fleeing,

**agnovit tali fugientem est voce secutus:** followed with such a voice:

**'quid natum totiens, crudelis tu quoque, falsis** 'why do you mock your son so often, you also cruel,

**ludis imaginibus? cur dextrae iungere dextram** why is it not permitted to join right hand to right hand //polptoton//

**non datur ac veras audire et reddere voces?”** and to hear and return true voices?"

**410 talibus incusat gressumque ad moenia tendit.** He accuses with such (words) and directs his step to the walls.

**at Venus obscuro gradientes aere saepsit,** And Venus surrounded them going with a mist of invisibility, //them going in is sorrounded by the mist in the latin also//

**et multo nebulae circum dea fudit amictu,** and the goddess sorrounded them with a great cloak mist, //great: transferred epithet// //circum..fudit: tmesis//

**cernere ne quis eos neu quis contingere posset** so that not anyone would be able to see them or to touch them //all the ali-s go away//

**molirive moram aut veniendi poscere causas.** or to make a delay or to demand the reasons of their approaching. //polysyndeton// //alliteration->mol. mor.// //veniendi->gerund in genetive//

**415 ipsa Paphum sublimis abit sedesque revisit** She herself on high, goes away to Paphus and she, happy, revisits //Paphus-> center of worship for Venus//

**laeta suas, ubi templum illi (**//est////)//**, centumque Sabaeo** her place, where there is a temple to her, and 100 altars are hot

**ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant.** with Sabaean incense and are fragrant with fresh wreathes. //Sabaea is place famous for incense//