VI.40-70


 * //Aeneid// VI.40-70**



**40 talibus adfata Aenean (nec sacra morantur** having addressed Aeneas with such words (nor did the men delay the sacred things

**iussa viri) Teucros vocat alta in templa sacerdos.** having been ordered) the priestess calls the Trojans into the high temple(s).

**Excisum (**//est//**) Euboïcae latus ingens rupis in antrum,** The huge flank of Euboean rock has been cut into a cave

**quo lati ducunt aditus centum, ostia centum,** where a hundred broad entrances lead, a hundred mouths,

**unde ruunt totidem voces, responsa Sibyllae.** from where so many voices rush, the answers of the Sibyl. //aposition: voces with responsa//

**45 ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo 'poscere fata** They had come to the threshold, when the virgin said, "it is time to seek the fates; //ventum erat: impersonal verb, literally "it had been come"//

**tempus (**//est//**)' ait; 'deus ecce deus!' cui talia fanti** the god, behold, the god!" To whom saying such things

**ante fores subito non vultus (**//est//**), non color unus,** before the doors suddenly (there is) not one face, (there is) not one color

the hairs did not remain arranged; but her breast (is) gasping, //syncopation: mansere// //missing __est__ after anhelum//
 * non comptae mansere comae; sed pectus anhelum,**

and the fierce feelings swell with rage, and she is bigger to be seen //rabie: abl. means/cause// //missing "est" after maiorque//
 * et rabie fera corda tument, maiorque videri**

and not sounding earthly, when she was inspired by the now closer //note the postposition of quando//
 * 50 nec mortale sonans, adflata est numine quando**

divine will of the god. She says 'do you hesitate to go into vows and prayers, //or prayer and prayer->pleonasm// //missing ire after cessas//
 * iam propiore dei. 'cessas in vota precesque,**

Trojan Aeneas? do you hesitate? For nor will the great
 * Tros' ait 'Aenea? cessas? neque enim ante dehiscent**

mouths of the thunderstruck home gape before (you go into prayers and vows)." And having said such things, //chiasmus: attonitae magna ora domus//
 * attonitae magna ora domus.' et talia fata**


 * conticuit. gelidus Teucris per dura cucurrit**

she became silent. A cold shudder ran through the hard bones

//gelidus... tremor: hyperbaton//

of the Trojans, and the king pours out prayers from his deepest chest:
 * 55 ossa tremor, funditque preces rex pectore ab imo:**

"Pheobus, having always pitied the serious hardships of Troy,
 * 'Phoebe, graves Troiae semper miserate labores,**

who directed the Trojan spears and the hands of Paris
 * Dardana qui Paridis derexti tela manusque**

into the body of Achilles, I have entered so many seas
 * corpus in Aeacidae, magnas obeuntia terras**

skirting great lands with you being my leader and (I entered) the
 * tot maria intravi duce te penitusque repostas**

the deeply remote peoples of Massylia and the fields extending to Syrtis:
 * 60 Massylum gentes praetentaque Syrtibus arva:**

Now at last we have seized the shores of fleeing Italy. //fugientis: transfered epithet with Italiae or not with oras//
 * iam tandem Italiae fugientis prendimus oras.**

let the Trojan (mis)fortune have followed (us) (only) thus far; //hac: tmesis// //volitive://
 * hac Troiana tenus fuerit fortuna secuta;**

it is right that you all also spare now the Trojan race,
 * vos quoque Pergameae iam fas est parcere genti,**

all both the gods and goddesses, whom Troy and the huge glory of
 * dique deaeque omnes, quibus obstitit Ilium et ingens**

Troy opposed. And you, oh most sacred prophet,
 * 65 gloria Dardaniae. tuque, o sanctissima vates,**

foreknowing of what is about to come, permit
 * praescia venturi, da (non indebita posco**

that the Trojans settle in Latium (I seek kingdoms not undue to my fates) //litotes//
 * regna meis fatis) Latio considere Teucros**

and (permit) that the erring gods and the agatated divinities of Troy (settle there as well).
 * errantesque deos agitataque numina Troiae.**

Then I will establish a temple out of solid marble for Apollo and Hecate
 * tum Phoebo et Triviae solido de marmore templum**

and (I will establish) festival days in the name of Phoebus.
 * 70 instituam festosque dies de nomine Phoebi.**