IV.676-705

//**Aeneid**// **IV.676-705**

**hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignes araeque parabant?** That funeral pyre was this for me, the fires and alters were preparing this (for me)? **quid primum deserta querar? comitemne sororem** What should I complain first, having been deserted? Did you, dying, **sprevisti moriens? eadem me ad fata vocasses,** reject your sister as a comrade? I wish that/If only you had called me to the same fates, **idem ambas ferro dolor atque eadem hora tulisset.** that the same pain, and the same hour had born both (of us) to death with a sword. //metonomy// //polyptoton// **680 his etiam struxi manibus patriosque vocavi** Also I built (the pyre) with my hands and I called the ancestral g-ds **voce deos, sic te ut posita, crudelis, abessem?** with my voice, so that, with you having been placed, cruel one, I would be away? **exstinxti te meque, soror, populumque patresque** You destroyed you and me, sister, and the people, and the Sidonian fathers, //syncope// and your city. Grant it (plural b/c to attendants), so that I will wash the wounds with water and //polysyndeton// and if any last breath wanders above then I will catch it with my mouth, Thus, having spoken, she had passed over the tall steps, //fate is what is spoken -> play on words?// and she, having embrace, was cherishing her half-dead sister in her lap //first i in semianimem is consonantal// with a groan and she was stanching the dark bloods with her robe. She (dido), having tried to raise her heavy eyes again, //illa is when its not previous subject// fails; the wound, having been fixed under her heart, hisses. Three times raising herself and having leaned on her arm she lifted herself, Three times she was rolled over on the couch, and with eyes wandering on the sea ***?** //anaphora// she sought the light in heaven and she groaned with it having been found. Then all powerful Juno, having pitied long pain and difficult death, **
 * Sidonios urbemque tuam. date, vulnera lymphis**
 * abluam et, extremus si quis super halitus errat,**
 * 685 ore legam.' sic fata gradus evaserat altos,**
 * semianimemque sinu germanam amplexa fovebat**
 * cum gemitu atque atros siccabat veste cruores.**
 * illa graves oculos conata attollere rursus**
 * deficit; infixum stridit sub pectore vulnus.**
 * 690 ter sese attollens cubitoque adnixa levavit,**
 * ter revoluta toro est oculisque errantibus alto**
 * quaesivit caelo lucem ingemuitque reperta.**
 * Tum Iuno omnipotens longum miserata dolorem**
 * difficilesque obitus Irim demisit Olympo**

sent down Iris from Olympus who loosened the struggling soul and the bound joined. For because she was dying neither with fate nor a deserved death, but she, miserable, before the day and having been enflamed with sudden madness, not yet had Persephone taken away the yellow hair from the head to her **
 * 695 quae luctantem animam nexosque resolveret artus.**
 * nam quia nec fato merita nec morte peribat,**
 * sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore,**
 * nondum illi flavum Proserpina vertice crinem**
 * abstulerat Stygioque caput damnaverat Orco.**

and she had not yet condemned the head to Stygian Orcus. **
 * 700 ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis**

Therefore Iris, dewey with yellow wings, flew down through the sky
 * mille trahens varios adverso sole colores**

dragging a thousand varied colors with the sun facing and stood above her head. " Having been ordered, I bear this sacred thing to Pluto and I free you from this body." : She speaks thus and cuts the hair with her right hand, and all the warmth (is) dissolved at the same time and her life withdraws into the winds.
 * devolat et supra caput astitit. 'hunc ego Diti**
 * sacrum iussa fero teque isto corpore solvo':**
 * sic ait et dextra crinem secat, omnis et una**
 * dilapsus calor atque in ventos vita recessit.**


 * -sam **
 * grace next weekw **