VI.450-476


 * //Aeneid// VI.450-476**


 * HW:** **read Fagles, VI.248-520 (pp. 189-199); read VI.450-476 in Latin. No translation! If you want to get ahead, look at future assignments.**

**450 Inter quas Phoenissa recens a vulnere Dido** Among whom Phoenician Dido, fresh from her wound,

**errabat silva in magna; quam Troius heros** was wandering in the great forest; as soon as the Trojan hero stood

**ut primum iuxta stetit agnovitque per umbras** next to whom/her (//quam//) and recognized (her), dim, through

**obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense** the shades, just as a moon someone either sees or //quam... obscuram: hyperbaton//

**aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam,** thinks to have seen rising through the clouds in a new month, //videt... vidisse: polyptoton//

**455 demisit lacrimas dulcique adfatus amore est:** he let fall tears and addressed (her) with sweet love: //simile//

**'infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo** "unlucky Dido, therefore a true message had come

**venerat exstinctam ferroque extrema secutam?** to me that you had been destroyed and had pursued final (things)/death with a sword? //supply esse with extinctam and secutam//

**funeris heu tibi causa fui? per sidera iuro,** Alas was I the cause of death for you? I swear by the stars,

**per superos et si qua fides tellure sub ima est,** by those above and if there is any faith under the lowest earth, //per... per: anaphora, asyndeton// //qua = aliqua//

**460 invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi.** unwilling, queen, I withdrew from your shore.

**sed me iussa deum, quae nunc has ire per umbras,** But the commands of the gods, which now compel (me) to go through these shadows,

**per loca senta situ cogunt noctemque profundam,** through these places rough with neglect and (through) deep night,

**imperiis egere suis; nec credere quivi** have driven (me) by their commands; nor was I able to believe //egere = egērunt (from agō, agere, ēgī, actus)//

**hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre dolorem.** that I brought this so great suffering to you.

**465 siste gradum teque aspectu ne subtrahe nostro.** Stay your step and do not withdraw yourself from my/our sight.

**quem fugis? extremum fato quod te adloquor hoc est.'** Whom do you flee? This is the last (thing) which I (will) address you by/because of fate.'

**talibus Aeneas ardentem et torva tuentem** With such words/with such things having been said, Aeneas was soothing //torva: n. pl. acc., used adverbially//

**lenibat dictis animum lacrimasque ciebat.** her burning soul and watching fiercely and he was rousing tears. //lenibat... animum lacrimas ciebat: chiasmus//

**illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat** She, having turned away, was holding her eyes fixed on the ground

**470 nec magis incepto vultum sermone movetur** and is not moved with respect to her face by his begun speech more

**quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes.** than if a hard flint/rock or a Marpesian cliff stood. //or// than if she stood as a hard rock or Marpesian cliff. //dura silex... Marpesia cautes: synchysis//

**tandem corripuit sese atque inimica refugit** At last she snatched herself and, hostile, fled back

**in nemus umbriferum, coniunx ubi pristinus illi** into the shade-bearing/shady grove, where her former husband

**respondet curis aequatque Sychaeus amorem.** answers/commiserates to her with cares and equals/matches his love.

**475 nec minus Aeneas casu percussus iniquo** Nonetheless/No less Aeneas, struck by the harsh misfortune

**prosequitur lacrimis longe et miseratur euntem.** follows with tears at a distance and pities her going.