IV.90-116


 * // Aeneid //**** IV.90-116 **



As soon as the dear wife of Jove realized that she (Dido) was held //quam=eam//
 * 90 Quam simul ac tali persensit peste teneri **

by such a great plague and that her fame did not stand in the way of her madness. //Indirect statement//
 * cara Iovis coniunx nec famam obstare furori, **

Juno addresses Venus with such words:
 * talibus adgreditur Venerem Saturnia dictis: **

"Truly you and your boy (great and memorable divinity) //boy= Cupid//
 * 'egregiam vero laudem et spolia ampla refertis  **

carry back remarkable praise and great booty/spoils,
 * tuque puerque tuus (magnum et memorabile numen), **

If one woman was conquered by deceit of two gods. // Sarcasm // Nor does it deceive me to such an extent that you, having feared our walls,
 * 95 una dolo divum si femina victa duorum est. **
 * nec me adeo fallit veritam te moenia nostra  **

have considered the homes of high Carthage suspicious. //Suspectam goes with domos//
 * suspectas habuisse domos Karthaginis altae. **

But what will be the limit, or to where (do you strive) in such a great rivalry now? // infer tendo, tendere //
 * sed quis erit modus, aut quo nunc certamine tanto?  **

Why do we not, rather, exercise an everlasting peace and the stipulated marriage?
 * quin potius pacem aeternam pactosque hymenaeos **

You have that which you sought in your whole mind:
 * 100 exercemus? habes tota quod mente petisti: **

loving Dido burns and drags the madness through her bones.
 * ardet amans Dido traxitque per ossa furorem.  **

Therefore let's rule this people in common and with equal // regamus: hortatory //
 * communem hunc ergo populum paribusque regamus  **

powers; may it please (her) to serve her Trojan husband //servio takes dative//
 * auspiciis; liceat Phrygio servire marito **

and to entrust the Tyrians as a dowry to your right hand."
 * dotalisque tuae Tyrios permittere dextrae.' **

To her (for she felt that that she had spoken with a simulated mind, //Olli- illi Take esse after locutam as indirect statement//
 * 105 olli (sensit enim simulata mente locutam, **

in order to turn away the kingdom of Italy to Libyan shores)
 * quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras) **

thus in reply began Venus: 'Who, mad, would refuse
 * sic contra est ingressa Venus: 'quis talia demens  **

such things or prefer to strive with you in war?
 * abnuat aut tecum malit contendere bello? **

If only fortune may follow which deed you recount.
 * si modo quod memoras factum fortuna sequatur. **

But I am borne uncertain by the fates, if Jupiter would wish
 * 110 sed fatis incerta feror, si Iuppiter unam **

that there be one city for the Tyrians and for those having set out from Troy,
 * esse velit Tyriis urbem Troiaque profectis,  **

or would approve that the peoples be mixed or treaties be joined.
 * miscerive probet populos aut foedera iungi.  **

You (are) his wife, it is your right (//lit.// it is the right to you) to test his spirit by entreating.
 * tu coniunx, tibi fas animum temptare precando.  **

Proceed, I will follow.' Then thus royal Juno rejoined:
 * perge, sequar.' tum sic excepit regia Iuno: **

That labor will be with me (will be mine). Now, in what manner that which presses on (us)
 * 115 'mecum erit iste labor. nunc qua ratione quod instat **

is able to be done, I will teach/inform in a few (words) (pay attention!).
 * confieri possit, paucis (adverte) docebo. **