vi.847-873


 * //Aeneid// VI.847-873**

**‘excudent alii spirantia mollius aera** "The others will hammer out the more softly breathing bronzes //Others: The Greeks// **(credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus,**  (indeed I believe), they will draw living faces from the marble, **orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus**  they will plead cases better, and they will map the motions of the sky  **850 describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent:**    with a compass and will name/speak about the rising stars.  **tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento**  You, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with authority  //memento: future active imperative//  **(hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,**   (these will be your arts), and to establish custom on peace,  //tibi: dative of possession//  **parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.'** to spare the vanquished and to crush the proud." Thus father Anchises (says), and he adds these (things) to (those) wondering: Look how Marcellus, distinguished with rich spoils, approaches and he, the victor, towers all the men. This knight will stay the Roman state, with the great uprising disturbing, he will strew the Phoenicians and Gaulic rebel, and he will hang for father Romulus the third captured arms." //formal tradition// And here Aeneas [says] (for at the same time he was seeing a young man, extraordinary in beauty, go and with shining arms //egregium, iuvenem, fulgentibus, armis: synchesis// but his forehead was not happy and his eyes were with a cast down expression) //missing erat frons and lumina// "Who, father, is that guy, who thus accompanies the man, going? //missing est with ille// Is it the son, or someone from the great lineage of our descendants? //missing est with filius// What an uproar of comrades (is) about (him)! What great dignity is in he, himself! //missing est wihth comitum and instar// But the dark night flies around his head with a sad shape." //nox atr tristi umbra: chiasmus// Then father Anchises began with sprung up tears: //missing est with ingressus// "oh son, do not ask about the huge grief of your (people); //ne quaere: poetic negative imperative// The fates will only show this guy to the lands nor will they allwo (him) to be further. The Roman offspring would have seemed //to be: to exist [he will not live long]// too powerful to y'all, gods, if these gifts had been secured. //missing esset with visa// //appostrophe// How many groans of men will that field (of Mars) drive to //virum= virorum// the great city of Mars! //quantos...gemitus: hyperbaton//
 * Sic pater Anchises, atque haec mirantibus addit:  **
 * 855 'aspice, ut insignis spoliis Marcellus opimis **
 * ingreditur victorque viros supereminet omnes. **
 * hic rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu  **
 * sistet eques, sternet Poenos Gallumque rebellem, **
 * tertiaque arma patri suspendet capta Quirino.'  **
 * 860 atque hic Aeneas (una namque ire videbat **
 * egregium forma iuvenem et fulgentibus armis,  **
 * sed frons laeta parum et deiecto lumina vultu)  **
 * 'quis, pater, ille, virum qui sic comitatur euntem?  **
 * filius, anne aliquis magna de stirpe nepotum?  **
 * 865 qui strepitus circa comitum! quantum instar in ipso! **
 * sed nox atra caput tristi circumvolat umbra.' **
 * tum pater Anchises lacrimis ingressus obortis:  **
 * 'o gnate, ingentem luctum ne quaere tuorum;  **
 * ostendent terris hunc tantum fata nec ultra **
 * 870 esse sinent. nimium vobis Romana propago  **
 * visa potens, superi, propria haec si dona fuissent. **
 * quantos ille virum magnam Mavortis ad urbem  **
 * campus aget gemitus!**