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haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem

when she gave these words, she deserted me crying

dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras.

and wanting to say many things, and receded into the thin breezes

ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum;

There three times I tried to place arms around her neck;

ter frustra compensa manus effugit imago,

Three times the grasped image fled my hands in vain,

par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.

similar to the light winds and very similar to a winged dream.

sic demum socios consumpta nocte reviso.

Thus finally I return to my allies with the night consumed

Atque hic ingentem comitum adfluxisse novorum

And here amazed I find that a huge number of new companions!

invenio admirans numerum, matresque virosque,

have flown together, both mothers and men,

collectam exsilio pubem, miserabile vulgus.

youth gathered for exile, a miserable crowd.

undique convenere animis opibusque parati

from all sides they came together prepared to go with me in spirits and resources

in quascumque velim pelago deducere terras. 

into whatever lands I would wish to lead them on the sea.

iamque iugis summae surgebat Lucifer Idae

and now Lucifer was rising on the ridges of the highest ida

ducebatque diem, Danaique obsessa tenebant

and was leading the day, and the Greeks were holding

limina portarum, nec spes opis ulla dabatur.

the besieged thresholds of the gates, and not any hope of aid was given

cessi et sublato montis genitore petivi.

I yielded and headed for the mountains with my father lifted