I.361-386


 * //Aeneid// I.361-386**

they come together for whom there was either a cruel hatred of the tyrant //abab odium crudele and metus acer//
 * conveniunt quibus aut odium crudele tyranni **

or a sharp fear; they seize ships which were prepared by chance
 * aut metus acer erat; naves, quae forte paratae, **

and load them with gold. The riches of the greedy Pygmalion
 * corripiunt onerantque auro. portantur avari  **

are carried on the sea; the leader of the deed was a woman.
 * Pygmalionis opes pelago; dux femina facti.  **

They arrive at the locations where you now see
 * 365 devenere locos ubi nunc ingentia cernes **

the massive walls and the rising citadels of new Carthage,
 * moenia surgentemque novae Karthaginis arcem,  **

and they purchased the ground, Byrsa by the name of the deed, //Byrsa->bulls hide// //ABAB->ingentia moenia surgentemque arcem// //ABBA->surgentemque novae Karth. arc.//
 * mercatique //(sunt)// solum, facti de nomine Byrsam, **

as much they were able to surround with the hide of the bull. //taurino tergo: surrounds whole thing// //the carth's used guile and cut it into strips//
 * taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo.  **

But who at last are you? or from what shores have you come?
 * sed vos qui tandem? quibus aut venistis ab oris? **

or whither (to where) do you hold the journey?" To her, asking with such words, //was venus speaking to Aeneas and Achates//
 * 370 quove tenetis iter?” quaerenti talibus //(vocibus)// ille **

he, sighing and dragging his voice from the bottom of his heart, (said):
 * suspirans imoque trahens a pectore vocem: **

"O g-ddess, if I should, retracing from the first beginning, proceed,
 * “O dea, si prima repetens ab origine pergam, **

and if there should be leisure (to you) to hear the stories of our labors,
 * et vacet annalis nostrorum audire laborum, **

Vesper would settle the day, with olympus having been shut, before (I finish my story). //all present subjunctive for future-less-vivid//
 * ante diem clauso componat Vesper Olympo.  **

Storm, by its own destiny (forte often seen as adv. but can be noun), drove us from ancient Troy, if by chance the name of Troy has gone through your ears, //sua modifies forte but refers to tempestas//
 * 375 nos Troia antiqua, si vestras forte per aures **

born over the scattered seas,
 * Troiae nomen iit, diversa per aequora vectos  **

to the Libyan shores.
 * forte sua Libycis tempestas appulit //(acc. object and dat. place where)// oris.  **

I am pious Aeneas, who carries snatched Penates (household g-d) from the
 * sum pius Aeneas, raptos qui ex hoste Penates  **

enemy fleet with me, known in fame above the heavens;
 * classe veho mecum, fama super aethera notus; **

I seek the fatherland, Italy, and a race from greatest Jove.
 * 380 Italiam quaero patriam, et genus ab Iove summo. **

I set out on the Phrygian sea with twice ten ships, //conscendi->set out on//
 * bis denis Phrygium conscendi navibus aequor,  **

with my mother, goddess, showing [me] the way, having followed the fates given (to me);
 * matre dea monstrante viam data fata secutus; **

Scarcely seven remain, torn up by the waves and by Eurus.
 * vix septem convulsae undis Euroque supersunt. **

I myself, unknown, lacking, wander through the desolate regions of Libya,
 * ipse ignotus, egens, Libyae deserta peragro,  **

having been driven from Europe and from Asia." //(re)pulsus//
 * 385 Europa atque Asia pulsus.” nec plura querentem **

Venus not having suffered him complaining more, thus interrupted (deponent) in the middle of his lament:
 * passa Venus medio sic interfata dolore est: **

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