VI.71-103


 * //Aeneid// VI.71-103**



Also the great inner parts/sanctuaries keep you in our kingdoms: //synchesis/chiasmus: magna, regnis, penetralia nostris// For here I will put your oracles and the secret fates having been spoken to my people, and I will consecrate the selected men, kindly (Sybil). Do not entrust your songs only to leaves, //ne: negative imperative (ne instead of noli)// //because leaves blow away!// so that they, having been confused, do not fly on rapid winds as sports; //ne volent: negative purpose cause// //ludibria: apposition w/ "they"// I pray (that) you, yourself, sing." He gave an end of speaking with his mouth. //missing ut (indirect command)// //canas: present subjunctive// But the huge prophet, not yet submissive to Phoebus, rages in a cave, (as) if she is able to (have) shake(n) off the great god from her heart; he, taming the wild hearts, tires her //hearts: poetic plural// raving mouth by so much more, and trains (her) by pressing. //horse metaphor// //premendo: gerund// already one giant hundred entrances of the house opened of their own free will and they carry the responses of the prophet through the breezes: "Oh you, having been through such great dangers of the sea //you: Aeneas// (but more grave things of land remain), into the kingdom of Lavinium the Dardanians will come (dismiss this trouble from your heart), //mitte: imperative// but they will wish also that they have not come. I perceive wars, horrible wars and the Tiber foaming with much blood. //multo...cerno: synchesis// Not the Simois nor the Xanthus nor the Doric camps will be absent for you; already another Achilles has been born in Latium, //non fuerint: litotes// //missing est w/ partus// also born of a goddess himself; Juno, having been added to the Trojans will not ever be absent, when/as long as you, as a suppliant in needy circumstances
 * te quoque magna manent regnis penetralia nostris:  **
 * hic ego namque tuas sortis arcanaque fata **
 * dicta meae genti ponam, lectosque sacrabo,  **
 * alma, viros. foliis tantum ne carmina manda,  **
 * 75 ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis; **
 * ipsa canas oro.' finem dedit ore loquendi. **
 * At Phoebi nondum patiens immanis in antro **
 * bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit **
 * excussisse deum; tanto magis ille fatigat  **
 * 80 os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo. **
 * ostia iamque domus patuere ingentia centum **
 * sponte sua vatisque ferunt responsa per auras: **
 * 'o tandem magnis pelagi defuncte periclis **
 * (sed terrae graviora manent), in regna Lavini **
 * 85 Dardanidae venient (mitte hanc de pectore curam), **
 * sed non et venisse volent. bella, horrida bella,  **
 * et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.  **
 * non Simois tibi nec Xanthus nec Dorica castra  **
 * defuerint; alius Latio iam partus Achilles,  **
 * 90 natus et ipse dea; nec Teucris addita Iuno **
 * usquam aberit, cum tu supplex in rebus egenis **

will not have beseeched what races of Italians or what cities! //Fagles translates these lines: "Nor will Juno ever fail to harry the Trojan race, and all the while, pleading, pressed by need - what tribes, what towns of Italy won't you beg for help!" [Fagles, The Aeneid, p. 185.]//
 * quas gentes Italum aut quas non oraveris urbes! **

A foreign wife again (will be) the cause of such a great evil for the Trojans
 * causa mali tanti coniunx iterum hospita Teucris **

and foreign bedrooms again (will be the cause....)
 * externique iterum thalami.  **

You, do not yield to evils, but go more brave (//literally "being more brave" )//against/in response, //audentior: comaparative adjective based on pres. act. participle of audeo, audere// //ito: future imperative of eo, ire//
 * 95 tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito, **

where [//literally in which (way)//] your Fortune will allow you. The first path of safety
 * qua tua te Fortuna sinet. via prima salutis  **

(which you consider least) will be opened/revealed by a Greek city.' //[you need the help of Greek city to complete your goal]//
 * (quod minime reris) Graia pandetur ab urbe.' **

With such words the Cumaean Sibyl sings awful
 * Talibus ex adyto dictis Cumaea Sibylla **

mysteries from her sanctuary and roars in/from her cave,
 * horrendas canit ambages antroque remugit, **

wrapping true (things) with obscure (things): Apollo shakes these reins
 * 100 obscuris vera involvens: ea frena furenti **

on her, raging, and turns his spurs under her heart/breast. //Horse metaphor//
 * concutit et stimulos sub pectore vertit Apollo.  **

As soon as her madness ceased and her raging mouths calmed, //ut primum: idiomatic// //quierunt: syncopated//
 * ut primum cessit furor et rabida ora quierunt,  **

Aeneas, the hero, begins:
 * incipit Aeneas heros: **