VI.103-132


 * //Aeneid// VI.103-132**



"Not any new or
 * 'non ulla laborum,  **

sudden appearance of labors, o virgin, rises for me;
 * o virgo, nova mi facies inopinave surgit;  **

I have anticipated all things and i have traversed everything in my mind with myself before.
 * 105 omnia praecepi atque animo mecum ante peregi. **

I beg one thing: when/since the door of the infernal king //Hades = infernal king//
 * unum oro: quando hic inferni ianua regis **

is said (to be) here and the dark swamp, with the Acheron having been poured back, //missing esse after dicitur// //Acheronte refuso: abl. absolute//
 * dicitur et tenebrosa palus Acheronte refuso,  **

let it befall (me) to go to the sight and the face of my //missing me before ire// //chiasmus: conspectum...ora//
 * ire ad conspectum cari genitoris et ora **

dear father; let you teach the way and open the sacred entrances. //contingat, doceas, pandas: subjunctive//
 * contingat; doceas iter et sacra ostia pandas.  **

I snatched him through the flames and (through) the thousand following spears //illum: Anchises//
 * 110 illum ego per flammas et mille sequentia tela **

with these shoulders and i recovered him from the middle of the enemy; //his umeris: abl. of means//
 * eripui his umeris medioque ex hoste recepi; **

Having accompanied my journey, he was enduring all the seas
 * ille meum comitatus iter maria omnia mecum  **

with me and all the threats both of the sea and of the sky, //omnes...caeli: synchesis//
 * atque omnes pelagique minas caelique ferebat,  **

feeble, beyond the forces and the fate of old age. //feeble = Anchises//
 * invalidus, viris ultra sortemque senectae.  **

Indeed, the same guy begging, gave orders that I, a suppliant,
 * 115 quin, ut te supplex peterem et tua limina adirem, **

seek you and approach your thresholds. I pray, kindly one,
 * idem orans mandata dabat. gnatique patrisque,  **

pity the son and the father (for you can (do) all things, and Hecate
 * alma, precor, miserere (potes namque omnia, nec te **

did not set you over the the Avernian groves in vain),
 * nequiquam lucis Hecate praefecit Avernis),  **

if Orpheus was able to summon the souls of his wife //manes = poetic plural? always plural?//
 * si potuit manes accersere coniugis Orpheus  **

relying on the Threcian lyre and musical chords, //chiasmus: Theicia (adj) cithara (noun) fidibus (noun) canoris (adj)//
 * 120 Threicia fretus cithara fidibusque canoris, **

if Pollux redeemed his brother with alternating death
 * si fratrem Pollux alterna morte redemit **

and he goes and returns the path so often. Why should I recall Thesea, //quid = cur//
 * itque reditque viam totiens. quid Thesea, magnum **

why should i recall the great Alcides? The race, too, to me is from the highest Jove."
 * quid memorem Alciden? et mi genus ab Iove summo.' **

He was begging with such words and holding the altars,
 * Talibus orabat dictis arasque tenebat,  **

when thus the oracle undertook to speak: "You having been begotten by the blood of the gods, //missing est with orsa// //sate: vocative perf. pass. part.//
 * 125 cum sic orsa loqui vates: 'sate sanguine divum, **

Trojan son of Anchises, the descent to the Underworld is easy: //missing est//
 * Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno:  **

the door of dark Pluto lies open for nights and days //noctes...dies: accusative of duration//
 * noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;  **

but to retrace one's step and to escape to the upper airs,
 * sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,  **

this is the task, this is the labor. Few, whom impartial Jupiter
 * hoc opus, hic labor est. pauci, quos aequus amavit  **

has loved or (whom) burning excellence has borne aloft to the upper airs,
 * 130 Iuppiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, **

born from the gods have been able (to do this). Woods hold the whole middle,
 * dis geniti potuere. tenent media omnia silvae,  **

and Cocytus, gliding in a black bay, encircles.
 * Cocytusque sinu labens circumvenit atro. **