IV.117-142


 * // Aeneid // IV.117-142 **



Aeneas and most miserable Dido together //una doesn't go with Dido because adv// //venatum: accusative supine of purpose (these happen with verbs of motion, e.g.// "ire" //in 118)//
 * venatum Aeneas unaque miserrima Dido  **

prepare to go (to) hunt into the grove, when the tomorrowy sun will have brought forth the first risings
 * in nemus ire parant, ubi primos crastinus ortus **

and will have covered again the earth with its rays.
 * extulerit Titan radiisque retexerit orbem. **

From above I will pour on them a cloud, black with hail having been mixed in, // chiasmus //
 * 120 his ego nigrantem commixta grandine nimbum, **

while the hunters tremble and surround the forest with a net,
 * dum trepidant alae saltusque indagine cingunt,  **

and I will stir up all the sky with thunder.
 * desuper infundam et tonitru caelum omne ciebo. **

The comrades will scatter and they will be covered with the dark night:
 * diffugient comites et nocte tegentur opaca:  **

Dido and the Trojan leader will come down to the same cave. // play with word order dux not with Dido //
 * speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem  **

I will be present and, if your will is certain to me, // devenient: enjambment // // infer est //
 * 125 devenient. adero et, tua si mihi certa voluntas, **

I will join them in a stable marriage and I will call (her) his own. //infer eam//
 * conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo.  **

This will be a wedding." Venus not having opposed (to) her seeking
 * hic hymenaeus erit.' non adversata petenti  **

nodded and smiled with the deceits having been discovered.
 * adnuit atque dolis risit Cytherea repertis. **

Meanwhile, Dawn, rising, left the Ocean.
 * Oceanum interea surgens Aurora reliquit.  **

The chose youth go from/by way of the gates with the sun having risen,
 * 130 it portis iubare exorto delecta iuventus, **

wide nets, snares, spears with broad iron,
 * retia rara, plagae, lato venabula ferro,  **

and Massylian horsemen rush and the keen-scented strength of dogs.
 * Massylique ruunt equites et odora canum vis.  **

The first of the Phoenicians wait at the thresholds for the queen
 * reginam thalamo cunctantem ad limina primi **

delaying in her bedroom, and a prancing steed, splendid in purple and gold,
 * Poenorum exspectant, ostroque insignis et auro **

stands and, fierce, bites the foaming bits.
 * 135 stat sonipes ac frena ferox spumantia mandit. **

at last she proceeds with a great crowd thronging,
 * tandem progreditur magna stipante caterva **

having been encircled/clothed in a Sidonian cloak with an embroidered border; //or, take circumdata as a middle participle:// having surrounded (herself) with a Sidonian cloak with an embroidered border;
 * Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo;  **

Her quiver (is) from gold, her hair is knotted in gold, //cui: dat. of possession (lit. "the quiver to her)//
 * cui pharetra ex auro, crines nodantur in aurum,  **

a golden clasp fastebs her purple garment.
 * aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem.  **

Likewise both Trojan comrades and happy Iulus //nec non: litotes - "not otherwise = likewise"//
 * 140 nec non et Phrygii comites et laetus Iulus **

go forth. Aeneas himself, the most beautiful before all the others,
 * incedunt. ipse ante alios pulcherrimus omnis  **

** bears himself in as a companion and joins the formations. **
 * infert se socium Aeneas atque agmina iungit.  **