IV.198-231

//**Aeneid**// **IV.198-231**



**Hic Hammone satus rapta Garamantide nympha** This guy begotten by Hammond, with the Garamantian nymph having been snatched,

**templa Iovi centum latis immania regnis,** he placed a hundred massive temples to Jove in the wide kingdom

**200 centum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem,** he established a hundred altars and he consecrated a watchful fire,

**excubias divum aeternas, pecudumque cruore** the eternal sentinels of the gods, and with blood of the hurt (animals) //excubias...aeternas: apposition with ignem//

**pingue solum et variis florentia limina sertis.** he consecrated the fertile ground and he consecrated the thresholds flowering with varying garlands.

**isque amens animi et rumore accensus amaro** and that guy, crazy of mind, and inflamed with bitter rumor

**dicitur ante aras media inter numina divum** is said, before the altar among the middle of the divine presences of the gods,

**205 multa Iovem manibus supplex orasse supinis:** to have prayed, humble, Jove many things with upturned hands:

**'Iuppiter omnipotens, cui nunc Maurusia pictis** "Omnipotent Jupiter, to whom now the Moorish race,

**gens epulata toris Lenaeum libat honorem,** having feasted on embroidered couches, pours a Lenaen gift,

**aspicis haec? an te, genitor, cum fulmina torques** do you see these things? or, father, when you hurl thunderbolts

**nequiquam horremus, caecique in nubibus ignes** do we shudder at you invain, and do the blind fires in the clouds

**210 terrificant animos et inania murmura miscent?** terrify the minds and mix idle murmurs?

**femina, quae nostris errans in finibus urbem** The woman, who wandering in our boundaries

**exiguam pretio posuit, cui litus arandum** established the small city for a price, to whom (we gave) a shore to be plowed //arrandum: gerundive (a future passive participle)// //pretio: abl. of price//

**cuique loci leges dedimus, conubia nostra** and to whom we gave the laws of the region, she rejected our marriages //conubia nostra: acc. pl.//

**reppulit ac dominum Aenean in regna recepit.** and received Aeneas, as master, into her realms. //Aeneas as master : commentary on dido's decision to let him in and give her power to this guy//

**215 et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu,** And now that Paris with his effeminate entourage, //Aeneas stole Dido like Paris stole Helen//

**Maeonia mentum mitra crinemque madentem** having been tied under with respect to his chin with a Maeonian miter and his dripping beard, //miter: hat (like a Bishop)// //he's wearing a hat that covers his head and is tied under his chin// //alliteration//

**subnexus, rapto potitur: nos munera templis** possesses snatched thing: indeed, we bear gifts to //rapto: snatched thing (Dido)//

**quippe tuis ferimus famamque fovemus inanem.'** your temples and we keep alive a baseless belief //synchesis, alliteration (ferimus...fovemus)// //Iarbas reproached Jupiter for not helping him and his people and allowing Aeneas to snatch her away//

**Talibus orantem dictis arasque tenentem** The Almighty heard (this guy) begging with such words

**220 audiit Omnipotens, oculosque ad moenia torsit** and holding altars, and he turned his eyes to the royal

**regia et oblitos famae melioris amantes.** walls and (to) the lovers having forgotten their better fame. //oblitos...amates: chiasmus//

**tum sic Mercurium adloquitur ac talia mandat:** Then he speaks thus to Mercury and commands such things:

**'vade age, nate, voca Zephyros et labere pennis** Proceed, son, call the west winds and glide with wings //asyndeton// //vade age//: pleonasm; colloquialism

**Dardaniumque ducem, Tyria Karthagine qui nunc** and address (//adloquere, line 226)// the Dardanian (trojan) leader, who now waits/lingers in Tyrian

**225 exspectat fatisque datas non respicit urbes,** Carthage and (who) does not look at the cities given by the fates, //ellipsis//

**adloquere et celeres defer mea dicta per auras.** and report/bear my commands through the swift airs. //adloquere: looks like an infinitive but is a command// //defer: imperative//

**non illum nobis genetrix pulcherrima talem** The most beautiful mother did not promise such a one as him

**promisit Graiumque ideo bis vindicat armis;** to us and she did not twice rescue (him) from the arms of the Greeks for this reason;

**sed fore qui gravidam imperiis belloque frementem** but (she promised) that (he) would be (one) who will rule Italy, heavy with supreme powers //fore: inf. in an indirect statement//

**230 Italiam regeret, genus alto a sanguine Teucri** and roaring with war, (one who will) produce a race from the high blood of

**proderet, ac totum sub leges mitteret orbem.** Teucer, and will send the whole world under laws.