X.482-509

//**Aeneid**// **X.482-509**



**dixerat; at clipeum, tot ferri terga, tot aeris,** He had spoken; but the spear with a vibrating blow pierces

**quem pellis totiens obeat circumdata tauri,** the middle of the shield, which the skin of the bull, having surrounded (it), surrounds it so often, //obeat, circumdata: pleonasm//

**vibranti cuspis medium transverberat ictu** so many layers of iron, so many (layers) of bronze //clipeum medium: hyperbaton//

**485 loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens.** and (pierces - from transverberat again) the delays (hindrances) of chest-plate/leather cuirass and it pierces the huge chest. //delays = layers (barriers)//

**ille rapit calidum frustra de vulnere telum:** He (Pallas) snatches the hot spear from the wound in vain:

**una eademque via sanguis animusque sequuntur.** By means of one and the same path the blood and spirit follow. //the blood and spirit pour out as he pulls out the spear//

**corruit in vulnus (sonitum super arma dedere)** He falls onto the wound (his arms gave a sound above) //dedere = dederunt//

**et terram hostilem moriens petit ore cruento.** and he, dying, seeks hostile land with a bloody mouth.

**490 Quem Turnus super adsistens:** Turnus, standing above him: //Quem: eum//

**'Arcades, haec' inquit 'memores mea dicta referte** He says, "Arcadians, mindful, carry back these my words to

**Evandro: qualem meruit, Pallanta remitto.** Evander: I send back Pallas, just as he deserved.

**quisquis honos tumuli, quidquid solamen humandi est,** Whatever honor of a funeral mound there is, whatever consolation of burying there is, //quisquis with honos// //missing est with honos//

**largior. haud illi stabunt Aeneia parvo** I bestow (on him). The Aenean hospitalities/hospitalities of Aeneas will not stand for a little amount

**495 hospitia.' et laevo pressit pede talia fatus** for that guy." And having said such things, he pressed with his left foot the lifeless (Pallas), //will not cost a little bit: litotes//

**exanimem rapiens immania pondera baltei** snatching the huge weights of the baldric

**impressumque nefas: una sub nocte iugali** and the engraved crime: under one marriage night

**caesa manus iuvenum foede thalamique cruenti,** the gang of the youth slaughtered foully and the bloody wedding chambers,

**quae Clonus Eurytides multo caelaverat auro;** which Clonus, the son of Eurytus, had engraved with much gold;

**500 quo nunc Turnus ovat spolio gaudetque potitus.** Now Turnus rejoices in which spoil and takes pleasure having gotten possession (of it). //ovat, gaudet : pleonasm//

**nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae** The mind of men is ignorant of the fate and the future destiny/lot //missing est with nescia//

**et servare modum rebus sublata secundis!** and, having been carried away by means of favorable things, (is unknowing how) to keep a limit (moderation)! //mens, sublata : hyperbaton//

**Turno tempus erit magno cum optaverit emptum** There will be a time for Turnus when he will have wished that Pallas //Turno : dat of ref.//

**intactum Pallanta, et cum spolia ista diemque** (was) bought untouched for a big price, and when he will hate those spoils //proleptic: foreshadowing Aeneas's decision to kill him//

**505 oderit. at socii multo gemitu lacrimisque** and the day. But the comrades, with much groaning and with tears,

**impositum scuto referunt Pallanta frequentes.** bring back Pallas, having been placed on his shield, thronging.

**o dolor atque decus magnum rediture parenti,** O grief and great honor about to return to your father, //vocative//

**haec te prima dies bello dedit, haec eadem aufert,** this first day has given you to war and this same (day) takes you away,

**cum tamen ingentis Rutulorum linquis acervos!** although you leave huge piles of Rutulians!