Section E: Lines 788-800

788-800 (E)

"huc geminas nunc flecte acies

‘Now turn your two eyes hither,

hanc aspice gentem

look at this race

Romanosque tuos

and your Romans.

hic Caesar et omnis Iuli progenies

Here is Caesar and the whole race of Iulus

magnum caeli ventura sub axem

which is destined to come beneath the mighty axis of the sky.

hic vir, hic est

This man, this is the one,

tibi quem promitti saepius audis

whom you hear so often promised to you,

Augustus Caesar, divi genus

Augustus Caesar, offspring of a god,

aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio

who will found the golden centuries again in Latium

regnata per arva Saturno quondam

throughout the fields once ruled by Saturn,

super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium

and will extend his supreme power beyond the Garamantes and Indians;

iacet extra sidera tellus

the land lies beyond the constellations,

extra anni solisque vias

beyond the paths of the year and the sun,

ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet

where heaven-bearing atlas turns on his shoulder the axis

stellis ardentibus aptum

fitted with burning stars.

huius in adventum

In anticipation of this man’s arrival,

iam nunc et Caspia regna

already now both the Caspian Kingdoms

responsis horrent divum et Maeotia tellus

and the Maeotian land shudder because of the oracles of the gods,

et septemgemini turbant trepida ostia Nili’

and the mouths of the sevenfold Nile are in fearful confusion.”