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//**Aeneid**// **VI.873-901**

**vel quae, Tiberine, videbis** Or what funerals, Tiber, will you

**funera, cum tumulum praeterlabere recentem!** see, when you will glide by the fresh burial mound!

**875 nec puer Iliaca quisquam de gente Latinos** Neither will any boy from the Trojan race raise his Latin

**in tantum spe tollet avos, nec Romula quondam** grandfathers into so much/so high with hope/his promise, nor will the land of Romulus

**ullo se tantum tellus iactabit alumno.** ever boast itself so much because of any child.

**heu pietas, heu prisca fides invictaque bello** Alas (what) duty, alas (what) old-fashioned faith and his right hand unconquered

**dextera! non illi se quisquam impune tulisset** in war! Not anyone would have borne himself unpunished to meet that

**880 obvius armato, seu cum pedes iret in hostem** armed guy, whether when he was going against the enemy as a footsoldier

**seu spumantis equi foderet calcaribus armos.** or he was digging the shoulders of his foaming horse with his spurs.

**heu, miserande puer, si qua fata aspera rumpas -** Alas, boy to be pitied, if you were in any way to break the rough fates -

**tu Marcellus eris. manibus date lilia plenis** you will be Marcellus. With full hands give lilies

**purpureos spargam flores animamque nepotis** (so that) I might scatter the purple flowers and heap up the soul of

**885 his saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani** my descendent with these gifts at least, and that I might perform

**munere.' sic tota passim regione vagantur** the empty ritual.' Thus they roam here and there in the whole region

**aeris in campis latis atque omnia lustrant.** in the broad fields of mist and they survey everything.

**quae postquam Anchises natum per singula duxit** After Anchises led his son through each and every one of these/which

**incenditque animum famae venientis amore,** and kindled his soul with love of the coming fame,

**890 exim bella viro memorat quae deinde gerenda,** from there he recounts that wars that must be waged by the man, //missing sint after gerenda// //viro: dat. of agent// **Laurentesque docet populos urbemque Latini,** and he teaches about the Laurentian peoples and the city of Latinus,

**et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem.** and in what way he should flee and bear each burden/labor.

**Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur** There are twin gates of Sleep, of which the one is said

**cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris,** (to be) of horn, by which an easy exit is given to true shades,

**895 altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto,** the other, shining, made from gleaming ivory,

**sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.** but the souls of the dead send false dreams to the heavens.

**his ibi tum natum Anchises unaque Sibyllam** with these words, then, Anchises accompanies his son and the Sibyl together there,

**prosequitur dictis portaque emittit eburna,** and sends (them) out through the ivory gate.

**ille viam secat ad navis sociosque revisit.** He (Aeneas) cuts a path to the ships and rejoins his comrades.

**900 Tum se ad Caietae recto fert limite portum.** Then, he carries himself to the harbor of Caita with a direct path.

**ancora de prora iacitur; stant litore puppes.** The anchor is hurled from the prows; the sterns stand on the shore.