IV.1-30


 * //Aeneid// IV.1-30**



But the queen, wounded for some time by grave care,
 * At regina gravi iamdudum saucia cura **

nourishes the wound in her veins and she is seized by a blind fire. //in// before //venis//
 * vulnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni.  **

The great virtue of the man and the great //multa, multus: polyptoton//
 * multa viri virtus animo multusque recursat  **

honor of the race recurs in her mind; the appearance and words cling,
 * gentis honos; haerent infixi pectore vultus **

fixed in her heart, and the care does not give quiet peace to her body/limbs. //She can't get his face out of her mind, and this gives her endless turmoil.// //placidam quietem : pleonasm//
 * 5 verbaque nec placidam membris dat cura quietem. **

The following dawn was traversing the lands with the Phoebean lamp //metonymy// //assonance (a sound)//
 * postera Phoebea lustrabat lampade terras  **

and had removed the moist shade from the sky,
 * umentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram,  **

when thus she, scarcely sane, addresses her like-minded sister: //Dido addresses sister, Anna//
 * cum sic unanimam adloquitur male sana sororem: **

"Sister Anna, what dreams terrify agitated me!
 * 'Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!  **

Who is this new guest who has come to our house,
 * 10 quis (est) novus hic nostris (qui) successit sedibus hospes, **

carrying himself as what (sort of) person with respect to appearance, with how brave a heart and arms! //arms = armor//
 * quem sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis! **

I truly believe, nor is my belief empty, that his race is of gods. //indirect statement//
 * credo equidem, nec vana fides (est), genus esse deorum.  **

Fear proves degenerate minds. Alas, by which
 * degeneres animos timor arguit. heu, quibus ille **

fates he has been tossed! What wars, having been borne, he was singing!
 * iactatus fatis! quae bella exhausta canebat!  **

If it should not remain fixed and immovable in my spirit
 * 15 si mihi non animo fixum immotumque sederet **

that I do not wish to join myself to anyone with the wedding bond,
 * ne cui me vinclo vellem sociare iugali,  **

after my first love tricked me, having been deceived, with death;
 * postquam primus amor deceptam morte fefellit;  **

If it had not wearied (me) of the wedding couch and the wedding torches,
 * si non pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset, **

to this guy alone perhaps I would have been able to yield to my weakness. //potui = potuisset//
 * huic uni forsan potui succumbere culpae.  **

Anna (for I will confess), after the fates of miserable Sychaeus, //Anna is vocative// **coniugis et sparsos fraterna caede penates** my husband, and the household gods scattered by fraternal murder, //sparsos fraterna caede penates : chiasmus//
 * 20 Anna (fatebor enim) miseri post fata Sychaei **

**solus hic inflexit sensus animumque labantem** this guy alone turned my feelings and struck my wavering mind. //impulit = enjambment//

**impulit. agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.** I recognize the traces of the old flame. //Recognizes the feeling of being in love//

**sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat** But I wish that either the lowest earth would yawn for me

**25 vel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,** or the all-powerful father would drive me to the shadows with a thunderbolt,

**pallentis umbras Erebo noctemque profundam,** (to) the pale shadows in Erebus and the deep night, //Erebus=Underworld// **ante, pudor, quam te violo aut tua iura resolvo.** sooner, honor, than I violate you or I break your laws. //I think Dido is saying that she will to go the Underworld before she breaks the laws of honor, i.e. remarrying.//

**ille meos, primus qui me sibi iunxit, amores** That guy, who first joined me to himself, took away my loves; //Ille=Sychaeus//

**abstulit; ille habeat secum servetque sepulcro.'** he should have them (my loves) with himself and guard them in the tomb."

**30 sic effata sinum lacrimis implevit obortis.** Thus having spoken, she filled her bosom with tears having arisen.