Lines 730-740

Iamque propinquabam portis omnemque videbar

And now I was approaching the gates and seemed

evasisse viam, subito cum creber ad auris

to have reach the whole way, when suddenly the frequent

visus adesse pedum sonitus, genitorque per umbram

sound of feet seemed to be present to my ears, and my father

prospiciens ‘nate’ exclamat, ‘fuge, nate; propinquant

looking through the shadow shouts “son”, “flee son” they’re approaching

ardentis clipeos atque aera micantia cerno.’

I see burning shields and glittering bronze.”

hic mihi nescio quod trepido male numen amicum

Here I know not what hostile divinity snatched

confusam eripuit mentem, namque Avia cursu

my confused mind from fearful me. For while I follow remote places in haste

dum sequor et nota excedo regione viarum

and I leave the known regions of roads,

heu misero coniunx fatone erepta Creusa

alas did my wife Creusa snatched by miserable fate

substitit, erravitne via seu lapsa resedit

did she stop, or did she wander from the road or tired did she sit down,

incertum; nec post oculis est reddita nostris.

It is uncertain, and she was not returned before our eyes.