IV.173-197


 * // Aeneid // IV.173-197 **

Immediately rumor goes through the great cities of Libya,
 * Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes,  **

Rumor, then whom no other evil is more swift: //qua: Abl of comparison// //velocius: comparitive// //Fama, Fama: repitition or epanalepsis//
 * Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum:  **

she thrives in speed and gains energy by going, //eundo: gerund//
 * 175 mobilitate viget viresque adquirit eundo, **

small at first because of fear, soon she raises herself into the airs //metu: abl// //repercussions from telling a rumor first are scary, but once everyone i talking about it it's okay.//
 * parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras **

and proceeds on the ground and she hides her head between the clouds. //Rumor becomes massive quickly//
 * ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.  **

Earth, her parent, provoked by anger,
 * illam Terra parens ira inritata deorum  **

gave birth, so they say, to her, the last of the gods and the last sister of Coeo and Encelado
 * extremam, ut perhibent, Coeo Enceladoque sororem  **

who is swift with respect to feet with swift wings
 * 180 progenuit pedibus celerem et pernicibus alis,   **

a horrible monster, huge, to whom as many feathers are on her body //cui: dative of possession with sunt// //monstrum horrendum: in apposition with illam//
 * monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui quot sunt corpore plumae, **

so many vigilant eyes are underneath, amazing to say, //mirabile dictu: abl. of supine//
 * tot vigiles oculi subter (mirabile dictu), **

so many tongues, so many mouths sound, so many ears she raises up. //tot: anaphora// //asyndeton// //tot, totidem: polyptoton//
 * tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. **

by night she flies between the heaven and earth, whirring
 * nocte volat caeli medio terraeque per umbram **

through the shadow, nor does she turn down her eyes in sweet sleep;
 * 185 stridens, nec dulci declinat lumina somno; **

by day she sits, as a guardian, on the peak of the highest roof or
 * luce sedet custos aut summi culmine tecti **

on lofty towers, and she terrifies great cities,
 * turribus aut altis, et magnas territat urbes,  **

as much a tenacious messenger of fiction and wrong as of truth.
 * tam ficti pravique tenax quam nuntia veri.  **

Then she, rejoicing, was filling the peoples with manifold //telling similar but different stories to everyone//
 * haec tum multiplici populos sermone replebat  **

rumors, and equally she was singing things that had been done and not done:
 * 190 gaudens, et pariter facta atque infecta canebat:   **

Aeneas came, grown from Trojan blood,
 * venisse Aenean Troiano sanguine cretum,  **

to which guy pretty Dido danes to join herself;
 * cui se pulchra viro dignetur iungere Dido;  **

now they were caressing each other through the winter, however long it may be, //hiemem: acc. of duration//
 * nunc hiemem inter se luxu, quam longa, fovere **

in excess forgetful of the realms and having been seized with shameful love.
 * regnorum immemores turpique cupidine captos.  **

loathsome goddess spreads these things everywhere into the mouths of men.
 * 195 haec passim dea foeda virum diffundit in ora. **

Immediately she turns her courses to the King Iarbas
 * protinus ad regem cursus detorquet Iarban **

and inflames the mind with words and increases the rages.
 * incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras. **