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- Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.
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Enraged by Pallas's death, Aeneas relentlessly slays several enemy warriors, including Haemonides, Tarquitus, and the brothers Lucagus and Liger, eventually relieving the besieged Trojans. Meanwhile, on Olympus, Jupiter addresses Juno concerning Venus's support for the Trojan forces.
sustulit ista prior iam tum Pallante perempto.1
Turnus has already abolished those commercial transactions of war beforehand, at the very moment Pallas was slain.
Hoc patris Anchisae manes, hoc sentit Iulus.
This the shades of father Anchises, this Iulus feels.”
Sic fatus galeam laeva tenet atque reflexa
So speaking, he holds the helmet with his left hand, and drawing back
cervice orantis capulo tenus applicat ensem.
the neck of the suppliant, drives the sword in up to the hilt.
Nec procul Haemonides, Phoebi Triviaeque sacerdos,
And not far away was Haemonides, priest of Phoebus and Trivia,
infula cui sacra redimibat tempora vitta,
whose sacred temples a headband bound with its fillet,
totus conlucens veste atque insignibus armis.
shining all over in his robe and conspicuous armor.
Quem congressus agit campo lapsumque superstans
Meeting him, Aeneas drives him across the field, and standing over him as he fell,
immolat ingentique umbra tegit; arma Serestus
he sacrifices him and covers him with a great shadow; Serestus
lecta refert umeris, tibi, rex Gradive, tropaeum.
carries back the gathered arms on his shoulders, a trophy for you, King Gradivus.
Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus
Caeculus, born of Vulcan’s stock, and Umbro, coming
Caeculus et veniens Marsorum montibus Umbro:
from the mountains of the Marsi, restore the ranks:
Dardanides contra furit. Anxuris ense sinistram
The Dardanian rages against them. He had struck off with his sword Anxur’s left hand
et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem;
and the whole circle of his shield with the iron;
dixerat ille aliquid magnum vimque adfore verbo
he had spoken some big boast and believed there would be power in his word,
crediderat caeloque animum fortasse ferebat
and perhaps he was raising his spirit to heaven,
canitiemque sibi et longos promiserat annos:
and had promised himself gray hair and long years:
Tarquitus exultans contra fulgentibus armis,
Tarquitus, exulting against him in shining arms,
silvicolae Fauno Dryope quem nympha crearat,
whom the nymph Dryope had borne to forest-dwelling Faunus,
obvius ardenti sese obtulit. Ille reducta
threw himself in the path of the raging hero. Drawing back,
loricam clipeique ingens onus impedit hasta;2
Aeneas pins his corselet and the huge weight of his shield with his spear;
tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis
then, as he was begging in vain and preparing to say many things,
dicere deturbat terrae truncumque tepentem
he strikes down his head to the earth, and rolling over the warm trunk,
provolvens super haec inimico pectore fatur:
he speaks these words over it with a hostile breast:
Istic nunc, metuende, iace. Non te optima mater
”Lie there now, terrible one. No loving mother
condet humi patrioque onerabit membra sepulchro:
shall bury you in the earth, or weigh down your limbs with an ancestral tomb:
alitibus linquere feris aut gurgite mersum
you shall be left to the wild birds, or, submerged in the deep,
unda feret piscesque impasti volnera lambent.
the wave will carry you, and hungry fish will lick your wounds.”
Protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni,
Straightway he pursues Antaeus and Lucas, Turnus’ foremost ranks,
persequitur fortemque Numam fulvumque Camertem,
and brave Numa and yellow-haired Camers,
magnanimo Volcente satum, ditissimus agri
born of great-hearted Volcens, who was the richest in land
qui fuit Ausonidum et tacitis regnavit Amyclis.
of the Ausonians and ruled silent Amyclae.
Aegaeon qualis,3 centum cui bracchia dicunt
Just as Aegaeon, who, they say, had a hundred arms
centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem
and a hundred hands, and blazed with fire from fifty mouths
pectoribusque arsisse, Iovis cum fulmina contra
and breasts, when against Jupiter’s thunderbolts
tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret enses:
he clashed with as many matching shields and drew as many swords:
sic toto Aeneas desaevit in aequore victor,
so Aeneas, victorious, rages over the whole plain,
ut semel intepuit mucro. Quin ecce Niphaei
once his blade grew warm. Nay, look, he directs his course against the four-horse chariot of Niphaeus
quadriiugis in equos adversaque pectora tendit.
and his opposing breast.
Atque illi longe gradientem et dira frementem
And they, when they saw him striding from afar and raging terribly,
ut videre, metu versi retroque ruentes
turned in fear and rushing backward,
effunduntque ducem rapiuntque ad litora currus.
threw out their leader and hurried the chariot to the shores.
Interea biiugis infert se Lucagus albis
Meanwhile Lucagus charges into the midst with two white horses,
in medios fraterque Liger; sed frater habenis
and his brother Liger; but the brother guides the horses with the reins,
flectit equos, strictum rotat acer Lucagus ensem.
while fierce Lucagus whirls his drawn sword.
Haud tulit Aeneas tanto fervore furentis:
Aeneas did not endure them raging with such ardor:
inruit adversaque ingens apparuit hasta.
he rushed on, and loomed huge with opposing spear.
Cui Liger:
To him Liger said:
Non Diomedis equos nec currum cernis Achillis
”You do not see the horses of Diomedes, nor the chariot of Achilles,
aut Phrygiae campos: nunc belli finis et aevi
or the Phrygian plains: now the end of the war and of your life
his dabitur terris. Vesano talia late
shall be given on these lands.” Such words fly widely from mad
dicta volant Ligeri.4 Sed non et Troïus heros
Liger. But the Trojan hero does not prepare
dicta parat contra: iaculum nam torquet in hostem.
words in reply: for he hurls his javelin at the enemy.
Lucagus ut pronus pendens in verbera telo
As Lucagus, leaning forward, hanging over to lash them, urged on
admonuit biiugos, proiecto dum pede laevo
his horses with the whip, while thrusting out his left foot to prepare himself
aptet se pugnae, subit oras hasta per imas
for battle, the spear enters through the lowest edges
fulgentis clipei, tum laevum perforat inguen:
of his shining shield, then pierces his left groin:
excussus curru moribundus volvitur arvis.
thrown from the chariot, he rolls dying on the plains.
Quem pius Aeneas dictis adfatur amaris:
Whom pious Aeneas addresses with bitter words:
Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum
”Lucagus, no cowardly flight of horses betrayed your chariot,
prodidit aut vanae vertere ex hostibus umbrae:
or empty shadows from the enemy turned them back:
ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris. Haec ita fatus
you yourself, leaping from the wheels, desert the yoke.” Speaking thus,
arripuit biiugos; frater tendebat inertis
he seized the chariot; his unhappy brother stretched out helpless
infelix palmas, curru delapsus eodem:
palms, having slipped from the same chariot:
Per te, per qui te talem genuere parentes,
”By you, by the parents who bore you so great,
vir Troiane, sine hanc animam et miserere precantis.
Trojan man, spare this life and pity a suppliant!”
Pluribus oranti Aeneas: Haud talia dudum
To him begging with more words, Aeneas says: “Not such words did you
dicta dabas. Morere et fratrem ne desere frater.
speak a moment ago. Die, and let brother not desert brother.”
Tum latebras animae5 pectus mucrone recludit.
Then with his blade he opens up the breast, the hiding-place of the soul.
Talia per campos edebat funera ductor
Such deaths was the Dardanian leader causing across the plains,
Dardanius, torrentis aquae vel turbinis atri
raging like a torrential stream or a black whirlwind
more furens. Tandem erumpunt et castra relinquunt
mode. At length they break out and leave the camp,
Ascanius puer et nequiquam obsessa iuventus.
the boy Ascanius and the youth besieged in vain.
Iunonem interea compellat Iuppiter ultro:
Meanwhile Jupiter addresses Juno of his own accord:
O germana mihi atque eadem gratissima coniunx ,
”O my sister and also my most beloved wife,
ut rebare, Venus, nec te sententia fallit,
as you believed—nor does your opinion deceive you—Venus
Troianas sustentat opes, non vivida bello
sustains the Trojan power, not the right hand vigorous in war
dextra viris animusque ferox patiensque pericli.
of the men, and their fierce spirit and endurance of danger.”
- 10.533Pallante perempto
Ablative absolute, "Pallas having been slain." It explains the cause why the "commerce of war" (commercia belli) has already been rendered impossible by Turnus's act of killing Pallas.
- 10.553loricam clipeique ingens onus impedit hasta
Syntactical structure. The subject is Aeneas (understood), and hasta (spear) is the ablative of instrument. There are two direct objects in the accusative: loricam (corselet) and clipei ingens onus (the huge weight of the shield), both governed by the verb impedit (impedes, pins down).
- 10.565Aegaeon qualis
Introduction of a correlative structure. qualis (such as / like) introduces an epic simile that corresponds with sic (thus / so) in line 569, comparing the raging hundred-armed giant Aegaeon to Aeneas's furious onset on the battlefield.
- 10.584Ligeri
Dative of reference/agent with the intransitive verb volant. Ligeri can be interpreted either as the source/agent from whom the words fly ("fly from mad Liger") or as indicating the person affected ("fly for mad Liger"). Here it represents the reckless stream of words issuing from Liger.
- 10.601latebras animae
Genitive of definition or apposition. animae (of the soul) modifies latebras (hiding-places), functioning in apposition to pectus (breast). It is a poetic metaphor depicting the blade opening the innermost chamber where life/soul resides.