XII.791-812


 * // Aeneid //**** XII.791-812 **



Meanwhile the king of all powerful Olympus //omnipotentis: transferred epithet//
 * Iunonem interea rex omnipotentis Olympi  **

adresses Juno, gazing upon the battles from the tawny clouds:
 * adloquitur fulva pugnas de nube tuentem:  **

"Wife, what will the end be now? What remains at last?
 * 'quae iam finis erit, coniunx? quid denique restat?  **

You yourself know and you admit that you know deified Aeneas
 * indigetem Aenean scis ipsa et scire fateris  **

is owed to the sky and is born by fates to the stars.
 * 795 deberi caelo fatisque ad sidera tolli. **

What are you contriving? or on what hope do you sit firmly in the icy clouds?
 * quid struis? aut qua spe gelidis in nubibus haeres?  **

Was it fitting for a god to be dishonored by a mortal wound?
 * mortalin decuit violari vulnere divum? **

Or (was it fitting) that the sword (for what could Juturna [do] without you?)
 * aut ensem (quid enim sine te Iuturna valeret?)  **

having been snatched was returned to Turnus and that force grew (in) people having been conquered? //missin in with victis//
 * ereptum reddi Turno et vim crescere victis?  **

Stop now at last and be influenced by our prayers, //inflectere: passive command//
 * 800 desine iam tandem precibusque inflectere nostris, **

so that such pain does not consume you, silent, and (so that) the sad cares
 * ne te tantus edit tacitam dolor et mihi curae  **

would not keep recurring to me often from your sweet mouth.
 * saepe tuo dulci tristes ex ore recursent. **

It has come to the end. You were able to agitate the Trojans on the lands or the waves, //ventum : impersonal verb//
 * ventum ad supremum est. terris agitare vel undis  **

to kindle an unspeakable war,
 * Troianos potuisti, infandum accendere bellum,  **

to disfigure to home and to mix the wedding with grief: //wedding = wedding of Lavinia// //grief = reference that Amata killed herself//
 * 805 deformare domum et luctu miscere hymenaeos: **

I forbid (you) to try further."Thus Jupiter began;
 * ulterius temptare ueto.' Sic Iuppiter orsus;  **

thus the Saturnian goddess spoke in return with her face having been lowered:
 * sic dea summisso contra Saturnia vultu:  **

"Since that your will is known to me, great Jupiter, indeed, //missing est//
 * 'ista quidem quia nota mihi tua, magne, voluntas, **

I, unwilling, relinquished both Turnus and the lands;
 * Iuppiter, et Turnum et terras invita reliqui;  **

And you would not see me, alone in the lofty seat now, //umlaut: splits up the dipthong//
 * 810 nec tu me aëria solam nunc sede videres **

suffer both worthy and unworthy (things), but, encircled by flames, I would stand //missing et with digna// //missing et with indigna// under the battle line and i would drag the Trojans into hostile battles.
 * digna indigna pati, sed flammis cincta sub ipsa  **
 * starem acie traheremque inimica in proelia Teucros. **