IV.309-336

// **Aeneid** // **IV.309-336**

**quin etiam hiberno moliri sidere classem** In fact do you hasten to prepare the fleet with a winter star

**310 et mediis properas Aquilonibus ire per altum,** and (do you hasten) to go through the deep sea in the middle of the north winds,

**crudelis? quid, si non arva aliena domosque** cruel one? What, if you were not seeking foreign fields

**ignotas peteres, et Troia antiqua maneret,** and unknown homes, and if old Troy remained, //present contrary to fact//

**Troia per undosum peteretur classibus aequor?** would Troy be sought by the fleets through the wavy sea?

**mene fugis? per ego has lacrimas dextramque tuam te** Do you flee from me? by these tears and your right hand

**315 (quando aliud mihi iam miserae nihil ipsa reliqui),** (since I myself have left nothing else now for miserable me),

**per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos,** by our wedlock, by our begun wedding hymns

**si bene quid de te merui, fuit aut tibi quicquam** if I well desevered anything from you, or if anything of mine //si merui: comes up later//

**dulce meum, miserere domus labentis et istam,** was sweet to you, pity our slipping home(s) and discard

**oro, si quis adhuc precibus locus, exue mentem.** that mind, I pray, if there is still any place for my prayers. //quis: aliquis// //syntax reflects her crazed state of mind//

**320 te propter Libycae gentes Nomadumque tyranni** On account of you, the Libyan peoples and rulers of the Nomas //te propter: anastrophe// //Nomas: Tribe of N Africa//

**odere (me), infensi** (mihi sunt) **Tyrii; te propter eundem** hate (me), The Tyrians (are) hostile (to me); on account of the same you, //the native chieftains, as well as her own people, resented her kindly attitude toward Aeneas and the Trojans, who were foreigners, and her rejection of their offers of alliance through marriage// //te propter: anaphora//

**exstinctus (est) pudor et, qua sola sidera adibam,** honor and earlier reputation, with which alone I was approaching the stars,

**fama prior. cui me moribundam deseris hospes** has been ruined. For what do you, a guest, forsake me about to die //moribundam-morituram//

**(hoc solum nomen quoniam de coniuge restat)?** (since this name alone remains from our marriage)? //hoc nomen=hospes// //de coniuge=de nomine coniugis//

**325 quid moror? an mea Pygmalion dum moenia frater** Why do I delay? is it until my brother Pygmalion should destroy the walls

**destruat aut captam ducat Gaetulus Iarbas?** or Iarbas of the Gaetulians should lead me, captured?

**saltem si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisse** At least if some child had been taken up for me by you //qua: aliqua//

**ante fugam suboles, si quis mihi parvulus aula** before flight, if some little Aeneas should play in my courtyard, //quis: aliquis//

**luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore referret,** who would nevertheless recall you by means of his face,

**330 non equidem omnino capta ac deserta viderer.'** indeed i would not seem utterly taken and deserted. //capta ac deserta: juxtaposition, assonance//

**Dixerat. ille Iovis monitis immota tenebat** She had said. That guy was holding his eyes unmoved at the warnings of Jupiter

**lumina et obnixus curam sub corde premebat.** and, having sturggled, he was crushing the care under his heart.

**tandem pauca refert: 'ego te, quae plurima fando** At last he says few words: "I will never, queen, deny that you have

**enumerare vales, numquam, regina, negabo** merited (those things) which very many you are able to list by speaking,

**335 promeritam, nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae** nor will it displease me to be midnful of Dido as long as I

**dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.** myself am mindful of myself, as long as the spirit will rule this joints.