II.735-751


 * //Aeneid// II.735-751**

Here I dont know what unfriendly divinity
 * 735 hic mihi nescio quod trepido male numen amicum **

snatched the confused mind from alarmed me. For while I follow //avia is describing informed loca (masc in sing an neuter in plural)//
 * confusam eripuit mentem. namque avia cursu  **

pathless (places) with my course and depart from a known area of roads,
 * dum sequor et nota excedo regione viarum, **

alas (it is) uncertain whether my wife, snatched up by a miserable fate, //synchisis//
 * heu misero coniunx fatone erepta Creusa  **

halted, or wandered from the path or sat down having stumbled;
 * substitit, erravitne via seu lapsa resedit, **

nor was she returned to my/our eyes afterwards.
 * 740 incertum; nec post oculis est reddita nostris. **

And I did not look back at her, lost, or turn back my attention //prius: with quam (742) = "before" (tmesis)//
 * nec prius amissam respexi animumve reflexi  **

before we came to the mound and sacred seat of ancient Ceres:
 * quam tumulum antiquae Cereris sedemque sacratam **

here finally, with everyone gathered, one was absent
 * venimus: hic demum collectis omnibus una  **

and she eluded her companions and her son and her husband. //polysyndeton//
 * defuit, et comites natumque virumque fefellit. **

whom of both men and of the g-ds did i not accuse in my madness, //hypermetric: line ends on um and que elides to aut//
 * 745 quem non incusavi amens hominumque deorumque,   **

or what more cruel (thing) did i see in the overturned city?
 * aut quid in eversa vidi crudelius urbe? **

I entrust Ascanius and Anchises, my father, and the Trojan household g-ds
 * Ascanium Anchisenque patrem Teucrosque penates  **

to my comrades and i hide (them) in a curved valley;
 * commendo sociis et curva valle recondo;  **

I myself seek again the city and I gird myself with gleaming arms.
 * ipse urbem repeto et cingor fulgentibus armis. **

It stands (//or stat mihi sententia = I am determined)// to renew all misfortunes and to return //polyptoton//
 * 750 stat casus renovare omnes omnemque reverti **

**per Troiam et rursus caput obiectare periclis.** ** through all Troy and again to subject my head/life to dangers. //caput: metonymy for "life"// //synechdoche for body//