Virgil translation

Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis

credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis

With such tricks and by the skill of the lying Sinon,

the thing having been believed and we having been captured by grief and forced tears

quos neque Tydides nec Larisaeus Achilles,

non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

those ones whom neither Dimedes nor Larisaesus Achilles nor 10 years nor

1000 ships conquered.

Hic aliud maius miseris multoque tremendum

obicitur magis atque improvida pectora turbat.

Here another thing greater and needing to be feared by more than a lot

was presented to the miserable ones and disturbed in the unforseeing chests.

Laocoon, ductus Neptuno sorte sacerdos,

sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras.

Lacoon, having been chosen by Neptune’s lot as a priest,

was sacrificing a huge bull at the solemn alter.

ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta

(horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues

incumbunt pelago pariterque ad litora tendunt;

Behold however, twin snakes from Tenodos through the calm waters

I shutter from remembering, stretch out from the sea and equally reach the shore with huge coils;

pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque

sanguineae superant undas, pars cetera pontum

pone legit sinuatque immensa volumine terga.

the chest raised up between waves and of whose

blood-stained chest towers over the sea just as the rest of their bodied trailing behind their upraised heads and chest skim the sea

behind the huge back winds in coils.

fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arva tenebant

A sound is made with foaming salt; and now they were holding the lands

ardentisque oculos suffecti sanguine et igni

sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora.

and stained in respect to their eyes with blood and fire

they licked the edge with a quick tongue hissing.

diffugimus visu exsangues. illi agmine certo

Laocoonta petunt; et primum parva duorum

corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque

The bloodless scattering with the vision. They attack Lacoon with a direct

live and first the serpent having embraced the small bodies of 2 sons

implicat et miseros morsu depascitur artus;

and it wraps around each one

and it devours their wretched limbs in one bite;

post ipsum auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem

corripiunt spirisque ligant ingentibus;

afterwards he himself coming underneath with the help of carrying weapons

they seize and bind with huge coils';

et iam

bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum

terga dati superant capite et cervicibus altis.

and now

having embraced him twice in the middle, twice

the scaly backs tower above the neck having gone around with the head and lofty necks.

ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos

perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno,

clamores simul horrendos ad sidera tollit:

At the same time he reaches out to unite the knots with his hands

having been drenched in respect to his sacred headband with bloody gore and black venom,

at the same time he lifts terrible shouts to the stars

qualis mugitus, fugit cum saucius aram

taurus et incertam excussit cervice securim.

just like when a sacred bull bellowing is freeing from the altar

and shakes the uncertain axe from the neck.

at gemini lapsu delubra ad summa dracones

effugiunt saevaeque petunt Tritonidis arcem,

sub pedibusque deae clipeique sub orbe teguntur.

But the twin snakes escape to the highest temple with a slither

and they seek the citadel of savage Athena,

and they hid under the feet and under the circle of the goddess of shield.