XII.919-952


 * //Aeneid// XII.919-952**



Aeneas brandishes the fatal weapon at (him) delaying,
 * Cunctanti telum Aeneas fatale coruscat, **

having obtained his fortune with his eyes and he hurls
 * 920 sortitus fortunam oculis, et corpore toto **

(it) from a distance with his whole body. Rocks, having been moved
 * eminus intorquet. murali concita numquam  **

violently by a wall machine, do never resound thus nor do such great
 * tormento sic saxa fremunt nec fulmine tanti  **

rattlings leap apart from lightning. The spear flies like a black storm //Comparing the spear to the noises of rocks or thunder (loud noise)// //negative simile//
 * dissultant crepitus. volat atri turbinis instar  **

carrying dire destruction and it reveals the edges
 * exitium dirum hasta ferens orasque recludit **

of the leather cuirass and (it reveals) the edges of the seven layered shield;
 * 925 loricae et clipei extremos septemplicis orbes; **

Hissing, it pierces through the middle of the thigh. Having been
 * per medium stridens transit femur. incidit ictus  **

hit, huge Turnus falls to the land, with the back of knee having doubled.
 * ingens ad terram duplicato poplite Turnus.  **

The Rutulians rise with a groan and the whole mountain resounds
 * consurgunt gemitu Rutuli totusque remugit  **

around and the deep groves send back the voice far and wide.
 * mons circum et vocem late nemora alta remittunt.  **

He on the ground as a suppliant, extending his eyes and his entreating right hand //ille = Turnus// says, "Indeed I deserved nor do i plead against (this).
 * 930 ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem **
 * protendens 'equidem merui nec deprecor' inquit: **

Tale advantage of your fate. If any care for a a miserable parent //utere: imperative// //miseri parentis : obj genitive//
 * 'utere sorte tua. miseri te si qua parentis **

is able to touch you, I beg (and your father Anchises
 * tangere cura potest, oro (fuit et tibi talis  **

was such to you) to feel pity for the old age of Daunus //Daunus = Turnus's dad//
 * Anchises genitor) Dauni miserere senectae  **

and return me, or if you prefer the corpse stripped of light,
 * 935 et me, seu corpus spoliatum lumine mavis, **

to mine (people). You conquered and the Italians saw (me), having been conquered, //vicisti, victum: polyptoton (kind of a pleonasm)//
 * redde meis. vicisti et victum tendere palmas **

extend my palms; Lavinia is your wife, //videre: syncopated// //Turnus is giving everything; not a very honorable death//
 * Ausonii videre; tua est Lavinia coniunx,  **

Do not go further in hatred." Sharp Aeneas, rolling his eyes, //rolling eyes: looking over Turnus, not rolling in exasperation//
 * ulterius ne tende odiis.' stetit acer in armis **

stood in arms and he restrained his right hand;
 * Aeneas voluens oculos dextramque repressit;  **

and now and now the speech had begun to bend (him), delaying, //iam iamque : conduplicatio//
 * 940 et iam iamque magis cunctantem flectere sermo **

more, when the unlucky baldric appeared on his high shoulder
 * coeperat, infelix umero cum apparuit alto  **

and the sword belts of the boy Pallas gleamed with familiar nods,
 * balteus et notis fulserunt cingula bullis  **

whom, having been conquered, with a wound Turnus
 * Pallantis pueri, victum quem vulnere Turnus  **

had laid low and was wearing on his shoulder the insignia of the enemy.
 * straverat atque umeris inimicum insigne gerebat.  **

He, after he drank in with his eyes the reminders of fierce pain
 * 945 ille, oculis postquam saevi monimenta doloris **

and the spoils, having been inflamed with madnesses and
 * exuviasque hausit, furiis accensus et ira  **

terrible with rage (said): "Should you, clothed with the spoil of my folk,
 * terribilis: 'tune hinc spoliis indute meorum  **

be snatched from me hence? Pallas sacrifices you with this wound, Pallas
 * eripiare mihi? Pallas te hoc vulnere, Pallas **

exacts a punishment, from the defiled blood."
 * immolat et poenam scelerato ex sanguine sumit.'  **

Saying these things, he, burning, buries his iron under the facing heart of his adversary;
 * 950 hoc dicens ferrum adverso sub pectore condit **

but his limbs are loosened with cold and
 * fervidus; ast illi solvuntur frigore membra **

life flees with groan down to the shadows, having despised (its fate).
 * vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras. **