I.441-468


 * //Aeneid// I.441-468**

441-493: Aeneas visits the temple of Juno where he sees depicted the leading incidents of the Trojan War

There was a grove in the middle of the city, very fertile with shade,
 * Lucus in urbe fuit media, laetissimus umbra,  **

where at first the Phoenicians, tossed by the waves and the whirlwind,
 * quo primum iactati undis et turbine Poeni  **

excavated a sign for the place, which queen(ly) Juno
 * effodere loco signum, quod regia Iuno  **

had shown them, the head of a sharp/spirited horse; for in this way the race
 * monstrarat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello  **

would be remarkable in war and easy with respect to life through the ages.
 * 445 egregiam et facilem victu per saecula gentem. **

Here Sidonian Dido founded a huge temple for/to Juno, //Sidonian=Phoenician//
 * hic templum Iunoni ingens Sidonia Dido **

wealthy in gifts and the power of the goddess,
 * condebat, donis opulentum et numine divae, **

on the steps of which the bronze thresholds were rising //Hypermetric= nexaeque aere- ellision through line break//
 * aerea cui gradibus surgebant limina nexaeque **

and the timbers fastened with bronze, the hinge was creaking on bronze doors. //polysyndeton= trabes foribus//
 * aere trabes, foribus cardo stridebat aenis.  **

In this grove the new thing having been presented first soothed fear,
 * 450 hoc primum in luco nova res oblata timorem **

here first Aeneas dared to hope for safety
 * leniit, hic primum Aeneas sperare salutem **

and to better trust shattered things.
 * ausus et adflictis melius confidere rebus.  **

for while he surveys every single thing under the huge temple
 * namque sub ingenti lustrat dum singula templo  **

awaiting the queen, while he admires what fortune is the city's //asyndeton//
 * reginam opperiens, dum quae fortuna sit urbi **

and the handiwork of the craftsmen among one another and the hard work of the deeds,
 * 455 artificumque manus inter se operumque laborem **

he sees the Trojan battles in order,
 * miratur, videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas,  **

and now the wars having been spread throughout all the world by rumor,
 * bellaque iam fama totum vulgata per orbem,  **

the sons of Atreus and Priam and Achilles harsh to both.
 * Atridas Priamumque et saevum ambobus Achillem.  **

He halted and crying says "What place now, Achates,
 * constitit et lacrimans “Quis iam locus,” inquit, “Achate,  **

which region in the lands is not full of our labor?
 * 460 quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris? **

Behold Priam. There are here even its own rewards of praise,
 * en Priamus. sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, **

there are tears of things and mortal things/human woes touch the mind.
 * sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.  **

Dismiss fear; this fame will bear some safety to you."
 * solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.” **

Thus he says and he grazes his mind on the lifeless picture,
 * sic ait atque animum pictura pascit inani **

lamenting much, and he moistens his face with a copious river.
 * 465 multa gemens, largoque umectat flumine vultum. **

For he was seeing here how the warring Greeks
 * namque videbat uti bellantes Pergama circum  **

flee around Troy, how the Trojan youth press;
 * hac fugerent Graii, premeret Troiana iuventus; **

there the Trojans (fled), Achilles, crested in his chariot, presses on.
 * hac Phryges, instaret curru cristatus Achilles.  **

phrygians are the trojans