Aeneid 2.486-505 (Pyrrhus Continues his Rampage)

(And) The palace's interior is engulfed

at domus interior miscetur

by groans

gemitu

and wretched commotion,

miseroque tumultu

and deep within,

penitusque

the hollow halls howl

cavae aedes ululant

with the cries of women;

plangoribus femineis

the noise strikes the golden stars.

ferit aurea sidera clamor

Then fearful mothers

tum pavidae matres

wander around the huge halls

tectis ingentibus errant

and hugging the doorposts

amplexaeque postis

they hold them

tenent

and fix kisses [on them].

atque oscula figunt.

With his father's force,

vi patria

Pyrrhus presses forwards;

instat Pyrrhus

neither the bolts

nec claustra

nor the guards themselves

nec ipsi custodes

have the power to endure [him].

sufferre valent

The door buckles

labat ianua

at the constant ramming,

ariete crebro

and the doorposts collapse,

et procumbunt postes

pulled from their hinges.

emoti cardine

A path is created through force:

fit via vi;

the Greeks, let loose,

immissi Danai

burst through the entrances

rumpunt aditus

and butcher the front ranks

primosque trucidant

and fully fill the area with their troops.

et late loca milite complent.

Not so [strongly]

non sic,

is a foaming river

spumeus amnis

carried into the fields,

fertur in arva

raging in a cresting wave,

furens cumulo

when it flows out

cum exiit

when its banks are burst

aggeribus ruptis

and overwhelms the retaining banks

oppositasque evicit moles

with its surge,

gurgite

[and] with the stables it drags along cattle

cum stabulis armenta trahit

over all the fields.

camposque per omnis

I myself saw,

vidi ipse

rampant in his slaughter,

furentem caede

Neoptolemus,

Neoptolemum

and the twins on the threshold,

geminosque in limine

the sons of Atreus;

Atridas

I saw Hecuba

vidi Hecubam

and her hundred princesses

centumque nurus

and Priam among the altars,

Priamumque per aras

corrupting the fires

foedantem ignis

which he himself had consecrated,

quos ipse sacraverat

with blood.

sanguine

Those fifty bed-chambers,

quinquaginta illi thalami

the [source of] great hope of grandchildren,

spes tanta nepotum

the doorposts, rich

postes superbi

with Eastern gold and trophies,

barbarico auro spoliisque

fell down:

procubuere

the Greeks hold power

tenent Danai

where there is no fire.

qua deficit ignis.