IV.373-412

//**tAeneid**// **IV.373-412**



**nusquam tuta fides. eiectum litore, egentem** Nowhere/Never is trust safe. I recieved

**excepi et regni demens in parte locavi.** (him) needy, cast out on the shore, and I, crazy, placed him in part of my realm.

**375 amissam classem, socios a morte reduxi** I restored the lost fleet, I restored the comrades from death //asyndeton// //ellipsis//

**(heu furiis incensa feror!): nunc augur Apollo,** (alas, inflamed, I am born by furies): now Apollo, the prophet,

now the Lycian fates, and now the messenger of the gods
 * nunc Lyciae sortes, nunc et Iove missus ab ipso**

sent by Jove himself, bears rough orders through the breezes.
 * interpres divum fert horrida iussa per auras.**

This is undoubtedly a task for/of the gods, this trouble //consonance (s) --> screeching sound?//
 * scilicet is superis labor est, ea cura quietos**

disturbs those at peace. I do not hold you nor do I reject your words.
 * 380 sollicitat. neque te teneo neque dicta refello:**

Go, pursue Italy by the winds, seek the kingdoms through the waves.
 * i, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas.**

I hope indeed, if faithful divinities are able (to do) anything,
 * spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt,**

that you will drink up the tortures in the middle of the crags and will
 * supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido**

call Dido often by name. (Although) Being absent, I will follow in dark fires
 * saepe vocaturum. sequar atris ignibus absens**

and, when cold death shall have set aside your limbs from your life,
 * 385 et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus,**

I will be present as a shade in all places. You, shameless, shall give retributions.
 * omnibus umbra locis adero. dabis, improbe, poenas.**

I will hear and this rumor will come to me under the deepest parts of the Underworld." //sub with abl. = under// //sub with acc = down to//
 * audiam et haec Manes veniet mihi fama sub imos.'**

in the middle of these words, she breaks of in the middle of her speech //his...sermonem: synchesis//
 * his medium dictis sermonem abrumpit et auras**

and she flees, sick, the light of day and she turns herself from his eyes and bears herself away //et, que, et: polysyndeton//
 * aegra fugit seque ex oculis avertit et aufert,**

leaving behind (him), lingering to say many things with fear and preparing to say many things. //multa...parantem: synchesis//
 * 390 linquens multa metu cunctantem et multa parantem**

Her female slaves grab her and they carry
 * dicere. suscipiunt famulae conlapsaque membra**

her the collapsed limbs to the marble bedroom and place her in the bed.
 * marmoreo referunt thalamo stratisque reponunt.**

But pious Aeneas, although he wanted to sooth her, grieving,
 * At pius Aeneas, quamquam lenire dolentem**

by comforting and to turn away her cares with his words, //solando: gerund//
 * solando cupit et dictis avertere curas,**

groaning a lot and having been shaken with respect to his spirit with the great love,
 * 395 multa gemens magnoque animum labefactus amore**

nevertheless he carries out the order of the gods at last and revisits the fleet.
 * iussa tamen divum exsequitur classemque revisit.**

Then indeed the Trojans urge and lead down the tall ships
 * tum vero Teucri incumbunt et litore celsas**

from the whole shore. The caught keel swims, //tot litore: abl of separation//
 * deducunt toto naves. natat uncta carina,**

and (the Trojans) bear the leafy oars and the rough oaks
 * frondentesque ferunt remos et robora silvis**

of the forest, with eagerness for flight. //studio: abl.// //unfinished line//
 * 400 infabricata fugae studio.**

You percieve them, parting, and rushing from the whole city:
 * migrantes cernas totaque ex urbe ruentes:**

just as when ants plunder the huge heap of grain, //ac: simile//
 * ac velut ingentem formicae farris acervum**

mindful of winter, and store it up in their house,
 * cum populant hiemis memores tectoque reponunt,**

The black army goes to the fields and they convey booty through the grasses
 * it nigrum campis agmen praedamque per herbas**

by the narrow street; a part pushes, shoving with their
 * 405 convectant calle angusto; pars grandia trudunt**

shoulder, large grains, a part brings together troops
 * obnixae frumenta umeris, pars agmina cogunt**

and chastises delays, the whole path boils with work. //opere: asyndeton// //metaphor within a simile//
 * castigantque moras, opere omnis semita fervet.**

What feeling was there to you, dido, discerning such things, at that time //quis: adj, with sensus//
 * quis tibi tum, Dido, cernenti talia sensus,**

or what groans were you giving, when you noticed from the top of your citadel
 * quosve dabas gemitus, cum litora fervere late**

that the shores were boiling wildly, and you saw that the whole sea
 * 410 prospiceres arce ex summa, totumque videres (**imperf)

was mixed before eyes with such great clamor in the water!
 * misceri (**pres pass inf) **ante oculos tantis clamoribus aequor!**

Wicked love, what do you not force moral hearts to do! (missing facere)
 * improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!**