I.335-360


 * //Aeneid// I.335-360**

Then Venus (said): "in no way indeed I deem myself worthy worthy of such honor; it is custom for Tyrian virgins to wear a quiver  and to bind their calfs on high with a purple buskin.  //purple dye from mollusk//  You see the Carthaginian realms, the Tyrians and the city of Agenor (king of Phoenicia)  but the borders are Lybian //(they are surrounded by this hostile race)//, a race intractable/unmanageable with respect to war //(abl. of respect).//  Dido, having come from the Tyrian (Carthaginian) city, fleeing her brother, rules the realm  The injury is long, the devious tales are long;  but I will follow the greatest summits of the matters (//I will review this story of Dido and husband )//  //longa longae: polyptoton//  // longa iniuria, longae ambages: synchissis // Sychaeus was her the spouse to her, most wealthy of gold of the Phoenicians, //huic: dat of possession//  and having been loved with a great love by the miserable (Dido), To whom her father had given her untouched (intact) and (he) joined by means of the first omens. But her brother, Pygmalion (//nom.)// held the realms of Tyre, crueler before all others with respect to crime. between whom a madness came in the middle. That guy, //qous inter: anastrophe// unholy before the alters, and blind with a love of gold, //alliteration with a's// heedless of his sister's love, secretly overcomes unsuspecting Sychaeus with iron //(metonomy: sword);// //incautum: hyperbaton// present to put you in the place and he hid the deed for a long time and evil, pretending many things, he mocked the wearied lover with empty hope. The image itself of the unburied husband came in dreams, //venit: perfect// raising, in a marvelous manner, the pale faces (poetically plural); It exposed the bloody alters and his chest having been pierced by iron, //synchissis// //metonomy// and uncovered the whole hidden crime of the house. Then it urges her to hasten flight and to withdraw from the fatherland and it discloses the old treasures in the earth as a help for the road, //viae: objective gen.// an unknown weight of silver and gold. Having been moved by these things, Dido was preparing flight and her comrades //maybe zuegma with prepare//
 * 335 Tum Venus: “haud equidem tali me dignor honore; **
 * virginibus Tyriis mos est gestare pharetram **
 * purpureoque alte suras vincire cothurno. **
 * Punica regna vides, Tyrios et Agenoris urbem;  **
 * sed fines ( sunt) Libyci, genus intractabile bello.  **
 * 340 imperium Dido Tyria regit urbe profecta, **
 * germanum fugiens. longa est iniuria, longae **
 * ambages ( sunt-//elipsis//) ; sed summa sequar fastigia rerum. **
 * huic coniunx Sychaeus erat, ditissimus ( //takes gen)// auri  **
 * Phoenicum ( //partitive gen)//, et magno miserae dilectus amore,  **
 * 345 cui pater intactam dederat primisque iugarat ( //iugaverat)// **
 * ominibus. sed regna Tyri germanus habebat  **
 * Pygmalion, scelere ante alios immanior omnes.  **
 * quos inter medius venit furor. ille Sychaeum **
 * impius ante aras atque auri //(objective gen)// caecus amore **
 * 350 clam ferro incautum superat, securus amorum **
 * germanae; factumque diu celavit et aegram  **
 * multa malus simulans, vana spe lusit amantem. **
 * ipsa sed in somnis inhumati venit imago **
 * coniugis ora modis attollens pallida miris; **
 * 355 crudeles aras traiectaque pectora ferro **
 * nudavit, caecumque domus scelus omne retexit.  **
 * tum celerare fugam patriaque excedere suadet **
 * auxiliumque viae veteres tellure recludit  **
 * thesauros, ignotum argenti pondus et auri. **
 * 360 his commota fugam Dido sociosque parabat. **