I.254-296


 * //Aeneid// I.254-296 **

The father of men and gods, smiling at her with his face/expression, //Olli is like old illi because g-ds really old// //pleonasm: smiling with face/expression// by whom the sky and the storms are calm, touched the lips of his daughter, then he says such things: //scanning: dehinc. dinc// "Spare fear, venus, the fates of your (people) remain unmoved //metu: dat.//  for you; you will see the city and the promised walls  dont worry, dont worry still going to found rome one day  //tibi: dat.// of Lavinium, you will bear the great-souled Aeneas on high to the
 * Olli subridens hominum sator atque deorum  **
 * 255 vultu, quo caelum tempestatesque serenat, **
 * oscula libavit natae, dehinc talia fatur:  **
 * “parce metu, Cytherea, manent immota tuorum  **
 * fata tibi; cernes urbem et promissa Lavini  **
 * moenia, sublimemque feres ad sidera caeli  **

stars of the sky; nor does purpose turn me.
 * 260 magnanimum Aenean; neque me sententia vertit. **

This guy (Aeneas) (for i will speak longer when this care troubles you,
 * hic tibi (fabor enim, quando haec te cura remordet,  **

and unrolling the secrets of the fates, I will put them into motion)
 * longius et volvens fatorum arcana movebo) **

he will wage a massive war for you in Italy and he will crush fierce peoples //geret - future//
 * bellum ingens geret Italia populosque feroces  **

and he will establish customs and walls on men, //mores...ponet - zeugma (verb has two different meanings)//
 * contundet, moresque viris et moenia ponet, **

until the third summer will have seen him ruling in Latium, //viderit transierint - future perfect with dum// //aestas - nominative singular// //Latio -ablative of place where// //Latium - district of Italy//
 * 265 tertia dum Latio regnantem viderit aestas, **

and three winters will have passed with the Rutulians having been subdued. //Rutulians - savages in Italy// //seasons have been subjects//
 * ternaque transierint Rutulis hiberna subactis.  **

But the boy Ascanius, to whom now the name Iulus is added //Iulo - dative by attraction (even though subject of additur)//
 * At puer Ascanius, cui nunc cognomen Iulo  **

(It was Ilus, while the Trojan state stood in rule), //ilia adjective describing res//
 * additur, (Ilus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno), **

will fill 30 big circles, with the months rolling, //circles = years// //Ascanius will rule for 30 years//
 * triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbes  **

//Lavinium - city Aeneas founded//
 * 270 imperio explebit, regnumque ab sede Lavini **
 * with his rule, he will transfer the rule from the seat of Lavinium **

and he will fortify Alba Longa with much force. //Alba longa - city (ridge) next to Rome//
 * transferet, et longam multa vi muniet Albam.  **

Here now it will be ruled for 300 years //300 years - acc duration of time// //300 - means a long time but also fits here// //ter centum - doesnt decline//
 * hic iam ter centum totos regnabitur annos **

under the Hectorean race, until the priestess Queen, Ilia, //regina sacerdos: hendiadys//
 * gente sub Hectorea, donec regina sacerdos,  **

heavy by Mars (pregnant), will give by birth twin offspring. //Twins - Romulus and Remus//
 * Marte gravis geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem. **

Thence Romulus, happy with the tawny covering (hide) of a nurse wolf, //tegmine - abl of specification//
 * 275 inde lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine laetus **

will inherit the race and found the Martian
 * Romulus excipiet gentem et Mavortia condet  **

walls and will call the Romans by/according to his own name.
 * moenia Romanosque suo de nomine dicet.  **

I do not establish neither bounds of states nor times for these men: //their rule will have no end..//
 * his ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono: **

I have given them realm/rule/sway without end. Yes even, harsh Juno,
 * imperium sine fine dedi. quin aspera Iuno,  **

who now wearies the sea and the lands and the sky with fear, //polysyndeton?//
 * 280 quae mare nunc terrasque metu caelumque fatigat, **

will bring back plans for the better, with me she will cherish the Romans,
 * consilia in melius referet, mecumque fovebit  **

rulers of the world and toga clad people.
 * Romanos, rerum dominos gentemque togatam.  **

Thus has it pleased. An age will come with sacred seasons passing/slipping by,
 * sic placitum ( est) . veniet lustris labentibus aetas, **

when the home of Assaracus (Troy) will repress Phthia and shining Mycenea //they are cities// // Phthia refers obliquely to Achilles because it was his home // // and Mycenea to Agamemnon //
 * cum domus Assaraci Phthiam clarasque Mycenas **

with servitude, and will rule over conquered Argis //(metonomy -> all of Greece).// // dominor takes the dative //
 * 285 servitio premet ac victis dominabitur Argis. **

A Trojan Caesar, from beautiful origin, will be born, //ABAB Pulchra-Caesar//
 * nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Caesar, **

who would limit his rule by the Ocean, his fame by the stars,-- //qui ->postposition (not rhetorical device)// //zeugma// //ABAB Imperium-astris (skip qui terminet)//
 * imperium Oceano, famam qui terminet astris,— **

Julius, the name sent down from great Iulus (Ascanius) //nomen-Iulius apposition//
 * Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo.  **

You, free from care, will accept this guy, burdened by spoils from the East, at some time in the sky (//will become g-d//);
 * hunc tu olim caelo spoliis Orientis onustum **

he will also be invoked by prayers.
 * 290 accipies secura; vocabitur hic quoque votis. **

Then harsh generations will grow mild with war having been put aside; //took off de prefix from pono verb// //reference to the expected return of the Golden Age// //aspera positis saecula bellis ABAB//
 * aspera tum positis mitescent saecula bellis;  **

white Faith and Vesta, Romulus with his brother Remus //asyndeton// //Fides & Vesta represent honor and sanctity of old Roman home;// //Reconciliation of Romulus & Remus represents the reconciliation of Roman political factions after long, deadly civil war//
 * cana Fides et Vesta, Remo cum fratre Quirinus (//Romulus//) **

will give laws; The horrible gates of war
 * iura dabunt; dirae ferro et compagibus artis **

will be closed with iron and close fitting joints; **unholy Madness, ** // **Reference to the temple of Janus: gates open in time of war, closed in time of peace ** // // **Augustus in 29 bc was first to close them for more than two centuries, had been closed only twice before since foundation of Rome ** // // **Impius: refers to unholy spirit of civil war ** //
 * claudentur Belli portae; Furor impius intus **

sitting within, upon the savage weapons and bound by 100 bronze knots //saeva sedens super: alliteration//
 * 295 saeva sedens super arma et centum vinctus aenis **

behind his back will roar, bristling with his bloody mouth.
 * post tergum nodis fremet horridus ore cruento.' **