Aeneid -- 331-350 -- Aeneas' Reply

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dixerat. ille Iovis monitis tenebat lumina immota, et, obnixus, premebat curam sub corde.

She had spoken. He, [because] of Jupiter’s warnings, [tried] to keep his gaze steady, and, [though] struggling, to press down his grief under his heart.

tandem refert pauca: ‘ego numquam negabo, regina, te promeritam [esse] plurima quae vales enumerare fando,

At last he replied with a few [words]: ‘I will never deny, O queen, [that] you have deserved the very many [things] which you can recount in speech,

nec pigebit me meminisse Elissae, dum ipse memor mei, dum spiritus regit hos artus.

Nor will it displease me to remember Elissa, while I myself am mindful of myself, while spirit controls these limbs.

loquar pauca pro re. que ego ne speravi abscondere hanc fugam furto (ne finge),

I will speak briefly about the matter. And I did not hope to hide this flight in secret (do not imagine [that]),

nec umquam praetendi coniugis taedas aut veni in haec foedera.

Nor did I ever hold out the bridegroom’s torches or enter into this pact.

si fata paterentur me ducere vitam meis auspiciis et componere curas mea sponte,

If the fates allowed me to live my life [under] my [own] auspices and arrange my concerns by my volition,

primum colerem urbem Troianam que dulces reliquias meorum, alta tecta Priami manerent, et posuissem Pergama, recidiva manu, victis.

First I would cherish the city of Troy and the sweet relics of my [people], the high roofs of Priam would remain, and I would have rebuilt Pergamum, renewed by my hand, for the conquered.

sed nunc magnam Italiam Apollo Gryneus Lyciae sortes iussere capessere,

But now [it is] great Italy [that] Apollo of Grynium [and] the Lycian oracles have ordered [me] to strive [to reach];

hic amor, haec patria est. si arces Karthaginis que aspectus Libycae urbis detinet te, Phoenissam,

This [is] my love, this is my country. If the citadels of Carthage, and the sight of your Libyan city have a hold on you, a Phoenician,

quae invidia est, tandem, [si] Teucros considere Ausonia terra? fas nos et quaerere extera regna.

what [cause for] envy is [there], then, [if], the Trojans settle on Ausonian soil? [It is] right for us also to seek foreign kingdoms.

turbida imago patris Anchisae, quotiens nox operit terras umentibus umbris, quotiens ignea astra surgunt, admonet me in somnis et terret me;

The troubled image of my father Anchises, as often as night covers the earth with dewy shadows, as often as the fiery stars rise, warns me in dreams and frightens me;

puer Ascanius, que iniuria cari capitus [admonet] me, quem fraudo regno Hesperiae et fatalibus arvis.

[So too] young Ascanius, and the injury to his dear life [warns] me, whom I cheat of the kingdom of Hesperia and its fated fields.

nunc etiam interpres divum, missus ab Iove ipso, (testor utrumque caput), detulit mandata per celeris auras:

Now even the messenger of the gods, sent by Jupiter himself, (I swear on both our heads), has brought commands through the swift winds:

ipse vidi deum in manifesto lumine intratem muros, que hausi vocem his auribus.

I myself saw the god in clear daylight entering the walls, and I drank in his voice with these ears.