Aeneid 10

Panditur interea domus omnipotentis Olympi

Meanwhile the house of all-powerful Olympus was thrown open

Terras unde arduus omnis…aspectat

From where he looked from on high on all lands

Considunt tectis bipatentibus

They sat down in his double-opening hall

Quianam sententia vobis versa retro tantumque animis certatis iniquis

Why have your resolutions been reversed and why do you contest so with hearts of hatred

Abnueram bello Italiam concurrere Teucris

I had forbidden the Italians to meet with the Trojans in war

Quae contra vetitum discordia?

What is this discord that goes against my ruling

Quis metus aut hos aut hos arma sequi ferrumque lacessere suasit

What fear has persuaded this side or the other to take up arms and to challenge with the sword

Adveniet iustum pugnae (ne arcessite) tempus

A just time for battle will arrive do not hurry it along

Cum fera Karthago Romanis arcibus olim exitium magnum atque Alpis immittet apertas

When fierce Carthage will threat great destruction and the opening of the Alps to the citadels of Rome

Tum res rapuisse licebit

Then you can seize your plunder

Nunc sinite et placitum laeti componite foedus

Now allow peace and happily accept the treaty

At non Venus aurea contra pauca refert

But golden Venus replied with not a few

(Namque aliud quid sit quod iam implorare queamus)

For what else is there for us to direct our pleas to

Cernis ut insultent Rutuli

You see how the Rutulians rejoice

Turnusque feratur per medios insignis equis tumidusque secundo Marte ruat?

And Turnus, known by his horses, is borne through the middle of the battle lines and rushes swollen with his martial success

quin intra portas atque ipsis proelia miscent
aggeribus murorum et inundant sanguine fossae.

Indeed even inside the gates and on ramparts of the walls themselves battle is mingled and the ditches overflow with blood

Muris iterum imminet hostis nascentis Troiae nec non exercitus alter

Again an enemy with another army threatens the walls of Troy as it is reborn

Atque iterum in Teucros Aetolis surgit ab Arpis

And once again Tydeus from Aetolian Arpi rises against the Trojans

Mea vulnera restant

My wounds remain

Et tua progenies mortalia demoror arma

And I your daughter am just a delay to mortal arms

Luant peccata neque illos iuveris auxilio

Let them pay having sinners and do not help them with aid

Si sine pace tua atque invito numine Troes Italiam petiere

If the Trojans sought Italy without your approval and divine will

Sin tot responsa secuti

But if [they came] having followed all the prophecies

Cur nunc quisquam vertere iussa potest

Why now is anyone able to change your mind?

Aut cur nova condere fata

Or found a new order of fate (still referring to the anyone mentioned before)

Quid repetam exustas Erycino in litore classis

Why should I speak again of fleets burnt on Eryx’s shore

Quid tempestatum regem ventosque furentis Aeolia excitos aut actam nubibus Irim

Or of the King of stoms and the furious winds roused from Aeolia or of Iris sent down from the clouds

Nunc etiam manis (haec intemptata manebat sors rerum) movet

Now she even stirs up the souls of the dead (that element of the universe remained untried)

Nil super imperio moveor

No more am I moved by thoughts of empire

Per eversae, genitor, fumantia Troiae excidia obtestor

I beg you, father by the burning destruction of pillaged Troy

Liceat dimittere ab armis incolumen Ascanium

Let me save unharmed Ascanius from the arms of war

Aeneas sane ignotis iactetur in undis

Aeneas to be sure let him be tossed in unknown seas

Hunc tegere et dirae valeam subducere pugnae.

Let me protect Ascanius and take him from dire battle

Est Amathus, est celsa mihi Paphus atque Cythera Idaliaeque domus

Mine is Amathus and high Paphus and Cythera and the temple of Idalia

Positis inglorious armis exigat hic aevum

Let him live out his years there, inglorious, having placed down his arms

Magna dicione iubeto Karthago premat Ausoniam

Bid Carthage rule Italy with powerful sway

Nihil urbibus inde obstabit Tyriis

The Tyrians cities will fear nothing from Ascanius

Quid pestem evadere belli iuvit

What was the use in escaping the plague of war

Agricolos medium fugisse per ignis totque maris vastaeque exhausta pericula terrae

To flee directly through the fires of the Greeks and havingdrained the cup of dangers over so many seas and desolate lands

Dum Latium Teucri recidivaque Pergama quaerunt

While the Trojans sought Italy and Pergama restored

Non satius cineres patriae insedisse supremos atque solum quo Troia fuit?

Would it not have been better to settle in the remaining ashes of their country and where Troy once was

Xanthum et Simoenta               60
redde, oro, miseris iterumque revolvere casus
da, pater, Iliacos Teucris.

Give these wretched men back Xanthus and Simois, I beg, and allow the Trojans to turn again the fortune of Troy

Et obductum verbis vulgare dolorem

And to lay bear my hidden grief with words

Aenean hominum quisquam divuum subegit bella sequi

Did anyone of gods or men force Aeneas to wage war

Aut hostem regi se inferre Latino

Or to attack King Latinus as an enemy

Italiam petiit fatis auctoribus (esto)

Say that he sought Italy on the authority of the fates

Num linquere castra horarti sumus

Did we encourage them to their camps

Num puero summam belli, num credere muros, Tyrrhenamque fidem

Nor to trust their walls and their war strategy to a boy or to [agitare] the alliance of the Etruscans

Quis deus in fraudem, quae dura potentia nostra egit?

What god drove him into deception, what harsh power of mine?

Ubi hic Iuno, demissave nubibus Iris?

Where here is Juno or Iris sent down from the clouds

Cui Piumnus avus, cui diva Venilia mater

Whose grandfather is Palumnus, whose mother is the godess Venilia

Quid face Troianos atra vim ferre Latinis

Why is it ok for the Trojans to attack the Latins with black fired torches

Arva aliena (iugo premere)

To press land that does not belong to them

Quid soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas

For them to choose their fathers in law stealing away married women from their mothers embraces

Pacem orare manu, praefigere puppibus arma

And to hold out the branch of peace, all the while holding arms in the sterns of their ships

Proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis

And offer mists and and empty winds instead of a man

Nos aliquid Rutolos contra iuvisse nefandum est

It is wicked for me to give the Italians some aid in my turn

Ignarus et absit

Let him be ignorant and absent

Quid gravidam bellis urbem et corda aspera temptas

Why do meddle with a city pregnant with wars and fierce hearts

Nosne tibi fluxas Phrygiae res vertere fundo conamur?

Is it I who tried to completely turn the unstable fortunes of Troy

An miseros qui Troas Achivis obiectit?

Or he who threw the pitiable Trojans against the Greeks in battle

Et foedera solvere furto

And the breaking of a treaty by theft

Me duce Dardanius Spartam expugnavit adulter

Did I command the Dardanian adulterer to attack Sparta

Fovive Cupidine bella

Or encouraged war in Cupid

Tum decuit metuisse tuis

Then it was right to fear for your own

Nunc sera querelis haud iustis adsurgis et inrita iurgia actas

Now too late you you speak up with unjust complaints and you throw out vain insults

Cunctique fremembat

And all were murmuring

ceu flamina prima
cum deprensa fremunt silvis et caeca volutant
murmura venturos nautis prodentia ventos.

Just as when the first breezes murmur caught in the woods and roll out unseen rumbles warning the sailors of the winds to come

Et tremefacta solo tellus

And the earth having been shaken by its foundations

Tum Zephyri posuere, premit placida aequora pontus

Then the West winds were calm and the sea forced its surface to flatten

Accipite ergo animis atque haec mea figite dicta

Receive these my words in your minds and fix them there

Quandoquidem Ausonios coniungi foedere Teucris haud licitum

Since it has not been possible to join the Trojans and Italians in treaty

Nec vestra capit discordia finem

And since your discord does not allow an end

Quae cuique est fortuna hodie

Whatever fortune brings each man today

Quam quisque secat spem

Whatever hope each chases

Tros Rutulusne fuat

Whether he is Trojan or Latin

Nullo discrimine habebo

I will hold no favouritism

Seu fatis Italum castra obsidione tenentur

Whether it is fate for the camps of the Italians to be held under siege

Sive errore malo Troiae monitisque sinistris

Or by the wrongful error of the Trojan or by harsh prophecies

Nec Rutolos solvo

Nor do I side with the Latins

Sua cuisque exorsa laborem fortunamque ferent

Each man’s efforts will bring him toil or fortune

Rex Iuppiter omnibus idem

King Jupiter is alike to all

Stygii per flumina fratris, per pice torrentis atraque voragine ripas

By the rivers of his Stygian brother, by the banks covered in tar and full of black chasms

Hic finis fandi

This was the end of the debate

Interea Rutuli portis circum omnibus instant sternere

Meanwhile the Italians pressed around all the gates to scatter

At legio Aeneadum vallis obsessa tenetur

But the legion of Aeneas having being besieged held on to their fortifications

Nequiquam et rara muros cinxere corona

In vain and few in number surrounded the walls

Asius Imbrasides

Asius, son of Imbrasus

Hicetaoniusque Thymoetes

Thymoetes, son of Hictaeon

Assaracique duo

The two Assaraci

Et senior cum Castore Thymbris

And old Thymbris with Castor

Prima acies

The first line

Hos germani Sarpedonis ambo et Clarus et Thaemon Lycia comitantur ab alta

They were accompanied by the brothers of Sarpedon both Clarus and Thaemon, from high Lybia

fert ingens toto conixus corpore saxum,
haud partem exiguam montis, Lyrnesius Acmon,

Lyrnesian Acmon carried a huge rock, not a small part of the mountain, straining with his whole body

nec Clytio genitore minor nec fratre Menestheo.

No less a man that his father Clytius or his brother Menestheus

hi iaculis, illi certant defendere saxis  

Some contested to defend with spears, some with rocks

molirique ignem nervoque aptare sagittas.

To wield fire and to fix arrows on the bowstring

Veneris iustissima cura,

The most just concern of Venus

Dardanius caput, ecce, puer detectus honestum

The Trojan boy his noble head uncovered