aeneid book 4

magalia

huts

laena

cloak

munera

gifts

tenui telas discreverat auro

separated the cloth from the loom with fine gold

invadit

he sprung

exstruis

building

numine

by divine power

quid struis?

what are you planning

teris

waste

moliris

undertake

respice

consider (imperative)

ore

with his mouth

procul

far away/at a distance

evanuit

he vanished

vero

indeed

aspectu obmutuit amens

at the sight stood dumb out of his mind

prima exordia

first beginnings.

sententia

decision

alternanti visa est

preferable to him alternating

facessunt

they carried out

motusque excepit prima futuros

she received first future change

detulit

brought news

inops

helpless of mind

saevit

she rages

Thyias

a follower of bacchus

trieterica

the triennial rites

compello ultro

addresses spontaneously]

tantum nefas

so great a crime

sidere hiberno moliris

toiling under a wintery star

hymenaeos 

marriage

miserere domus labentis

pity my falling home

istam exue mentem

change that mindset of yours

infensi Tyrii

the people of Carthage hate me

qua sola sidera adibam

by which i was approaching the stars

moribundam

fate

suboles

offspring

saltem

at least

qui te tamen ore referret

who would recall you at least with his face

viderer

seem

lumina

eyes

obnixus

making a great effort

dum spiritus hos regit artus

while breath rules these limbs 

abscondere

hide by stealth

praetendiu taedas

hold the torches of marriage

paterentur fata

the fates allowed me

ne finge

do not invent it

capessere sortes

to take up

teucros

trojns

considere

settle

umentibus umbris nox operit terras

as long as the night covers the land with drippy shadow

testor utrumque caput

i testify both heads

in manifesto lumine

in clear light

hausi

drank

totumque pererrat

wanders over the whole of him

profatur

speaks

quae quibus anteferam?

which things should i put toward which

eiectum litore

thrust away onto shore

augur

soothsayer

scilicet is labor est

Surely this is labour for the gods

anima seduxerit artus

parts all limbs from my soul

cunctantem

hesitating

stratisque reponunt

laid them on the covers

marmoreo

marble bedchambers

annoso…valida cum robore quercum

an oak aged strong with timber

flatibus

with gusts

aura aetherias

heavenly breezes

consternunt terram concusso stripite frondes

high leaves strew the ground, a creaking goes, when the trunk had been stuck

haud secus asiduis hinc atque hinc vocibus heros tunditur

not onot otherwise is the hero buffetted by voices on this side and that

lacrimae volvuntur inanes

tears run empty

exercete odiis

harass with hatred

sunto

let there be (imperative of sum)

ferroque

with sword

nunc, olum , quocumque

now, in a long time, whenever

lucem

light (metonymy)

immanibus effera

monstrous undertakings

sanguineam aciem

bloody gaze

maculisque trementes interfusa genas et pallida

sprinkled with respect to her tremblng cheeks

pallida morte futura

pale at the future death

recludit

unsheaths

rogos

pyre

incubuitque toro

lay down on her bed

ulta virum

beyond a man

toro

bed

moriemur inultae

we shall leave unavenged

magnis plangoribus

great wailings