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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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Arruns stalks Camilla and, after praying to Apollo, successfully wounds her mortally with his spear. Realizing her impending death, Camilla entrusts her final message to her companion Acca before passing away, which ignites an even fiercer clash on the battlefield.
hac Arruns subit et tacitus vestigia lustrat;
Along this way Arruns tracks her and silently watches her footsteps;
qua victrix redit illa pedemque ex hoste reportat,
wherever she returns victorious and withdraws her foot from the enemy,
hac iuvenis furtim celeris detorquet habenas.
there the youth secretly turns his swift reins.
Hos aditus iamque hos aditus omnemque pererrat
He wanders through this approach and now that approach, and all the circuit
undique circuitum et certam quatit improbus hastam.
around, and, wicked as he is, shakes his unerring spear.
Forte sacer Cybelo Chloreus olimque sacerdos1
By chance Chloreus, sacred to Mount Cybelus and once a priest,
insignis longe Phrygiis fulgebat in armis
was shining from afar, conspicuous in Phrygian armor,
spumantemque agitabat equum, quem pellis aënis
and was urging on his foaming horse, which was covered by a hide with bronze
in plumam squamis auro conserta tegebat.
scales like feathers, fastened together with gold.
Ipse, peregrina ferrugine clarus et ostro,
He himself, distinguished in foreign dusky-blue and purple,
spicula torquebat Lycio Gortynia cornu;
was shooting Gortynian arrows from a Lycian bow;
aureus ex umeris erat arcus et aurea vati
a golden bow hung from his shoulders, and golden was the priest’s
cassida; tum croceam chlamydemque sinusque crepantis
helmet; then he had gathered his saffron cloak and its rustling folds
carbaseos fulvo in nodum collegerat auro
of fine linen into a knot with yellow gold,
pictus acu tunicas et barbara tegmina crurum.2
his tunic embroidered with a needle, and his legs clad in foreign greaves.
Hunc virgo, sive ut templis praefigeret arma
Him the maiden, whether that she might hang Trojan arms in the temples,
Troïa, captivo sive ut se ferret in auro
or that she might display herself in captive gold as a huntress,
venatrix, unum ex omni certamine pugnae
blindly pursued, alone of all the combatants of the battle,
caeca sequebatur totumque incauta per agmen
and heedlessly through the whole army
femineo praedae et spoliorum ardebat amore,3
was burning with a woman’s passion for booty and spoils,
telum ex insidiis cum tandem tempore capto
when at last, seizing his opportunity, Arruns from his ambush
concitat et superos Arruns sic voce precatur:
rouses his weapon and thus prays aloud to the gods above:
Summe deum, sancti custos Soractis Apollo,
”Highest of the gods, Apollo, guardian of holy Soracte,
quem primi colimus, cui pineus ardor acervo
whom we first worship, for whom the pine-wood fire is fed
pascitur et medium freti pietate per ignem
on the heap, and trusting in our piety, through the midst of the fire
cultores multa premimus vestigia pruna,
we, your worshippers, press our footsteps on many a burning coal,
da, pater, hoc nostris aboleri dedecus armis,4
grant, father, that this disgrace be wiped out by our arms,
omnipotens. Non exuvias pulsaeve tropaeum
almighty one.” “No spoils or trophy of the defeated
virginis aut spolia ulla peto (mihi cetera laudem
maiden, nor any plunder do I seek (my other deeds will bring me
facta ferent): haec dira meo dum vulnere pestis
fame): so long as this dread plague falls defeated
pulsa cadat, patrias remeabo inglorius urbes.
by my wound, I will return inglorious to my native cities.”
Audiit et voti Phoebus succedere partem
Phoebus heard, and in his mind granted that part of the prayer
mente dedit, partem volucris dispersit in auras:
should succeed, but part he scattered into the swift breezes:
sterneret ut subita turbatam morte Camillam,
that he should lay low Camilla, thrown into confusion by sudden death,
adnuit oranti; reducem ut patria alta videret,
he granted to the suppliant; but that his noble country should see him return,
non dedit, inque Notos vocem vertere procellae.
he did not grant, and the tempests turned his voice into the South Winds.
Ergo ut missa manu sonitum dedit hasta per auras,
Therefore, as the spear sent from his hand made a sound through the air,
convertere animos acris oculosque tulere
all the Volscians turned their eager minds and directed their eyes
cuncti ad reginam Volsci. Nihil ipsa nec aurae
to the queen. “She herself was mindful of nothing, neither of the breeze
nec sonitus memor aut venientis ab aethere teli,
nor of the sound, nor of the weapon coming from the sky,
hasta sub exsertam donec perlata papillam
until the spear, carried home, beneath her bared breast
haesit virgineumque alte bibit acta cruorem.
lodged, and driven deep, drank her maiden blood.”
Concurrunt trepidae comites dominamque ruentem
Her trembling companions run together and support their falling
suscipiunt. Fugit ante omnis exterritus Arruns,
mistress. “Arruns flees before all, terrified,
laetitia mixtoque metu, nec iam amplius hastae
with joy and mingled fear, nor does he dare any longer
credere nec telis occurrere virginis audet.
to trust his spear, or to face the weapons of the maiden.”
Ac velut ille, prius quam tela inimica sequantur,5
And just as a wolf, before hostile weapons can pursue him,
continuo in montis sese avius abdidit altos
straightway hides himself in the high, pathless mountains,
occiso pastore lupus magnove iuvenco,
after killing a shepherd or a great bullock,
conscius audacis facti, caudamque remulcens
conscious of his daring deed, and, drawing back his trembling tail,
subiecit pavitantem utero silvasque petivit:
has tucked it under his belly and sought the woods;
haud secus ex oculis se turbidus abstulit Arruns
not otherwise did Arruns, in confusion, steal away from sight,
contentusque fuga mediis se immiscuit armis.
and, content with flight, mingled with the midst of the arms.
Illa manu moriens telum trahit, ossa sed inter
She, dying, pulls at the weapon with her hand, but between the bones
ferreus ad costas alto stat vulnere mucro:
the iron point stands fast against her ribs in the deep wound:
labitur exsanguis, labuntur frigida leto
she sinks down bloodless, her eyes, cold in death,
lumina, purpureus quondam color ora reliquit.
sink, and the once rosy color has left her face.
Tum sic exspirans Accam ex aequalibus unam
Then, thus breathing her last, she speaks to Acca, one of her peers,
adloquitur fidam ante alias, quae sola Camillae,
faithful beyond all others, who alone of Camilla’s companions
quicum partiri curas; atque haec ita fatur:
was one with whom she shared her cares; and thus she speaks:
Hactenus, Acca soror, potui: nunc vulnus acerbum
”Thus far, sister Acca, have I had strength; now a bitter wound
conficit, et tenebris nigrescunt omnia circum.
finishes me, and all around grows black with darkness.”
Effuge et haec Turno mandata novissima perfer:
”Hasten away, and bear these my last commands to Turnus:
succedat pugnae Troianosque arceat urbe.
let him succeed to the battle and keep the Trojans from the city.”
Iamque vale. Simul his dictis linquebat habenas,
”And now, farewell.” “Even as she spoke these words, she let go the reins,
ad terram non sponte fluens. Tum frigida toto
slipping to the ground, not of her own will.” “Then, growing cold,
paulatim exsolvit se corpore lentaque colla
she gradually released herself from her whole body, and laid down her drooping neck
et captum leto posuit caput, arma relinquunt,
and her head overcome by death, letting go her arms;
vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.
and her life, with a groan, fled complaining to the shades below.”
Tum vero immensus surgens ferit aurea clamor
Then indeed a boundless shout, rising up, strikes the golden
sidera: deiecta crudescit pugna Camilla,
stars; now that Camilla is fallen, the battle grows fiercer;
incurrunt densi simul omnis copia Teucrum
at once they charge in dense array, the whole force of the Trojans,
Tyrrhenique duces Evandrique Arcades alae.
and the Etruscan leaders, and Evander’s Arcadian squadrons.
At Triviae custos iamdudum in montibus Opis
But Opis, Trivia’s sentinel, had long been sitting
alta sedet summis spectatque interrita pugnas.
high on the mountain tops, and watched the battles without fear.
- 11.768sacer Cybelo Chloreus olimque sacerdos
sacer Cybelo is a dative indicating consecration to Mount Cybelus (or the goddess Cybele). The lavish attire of Chloreus, who was once a priest, attracts Camilla's fatal attention.
- 11.777pictus acu tunicas et barbara tegmina crurum
tunicas and tegmina are accusatives of specification (or Greek accusatives) specifying the parts affected by the perfect participle pictus ("embroidered").
- 11.782femineo praedae et spoliorum ardebat amore
femineo amore refers to "a woman's passion," with praedae and spoliorum acting as objective genitives modifying amore. This describes the fatal moment when Camilla loses her warrior's vigilance, captivated by the beauty of the spoils.
- 11.789da, pater, hoc nostris aboleri dedecus armis
da is the imperative of dare, taking the passive infinitive aboleri to form a construction of granting or permitting ("grant that this disgrace be wiped out").
- 11.809Ac velut ille, prius quam tela inimica sequantur
ille modifies (or refers forward to) lupus in line 811. The subjunctive sequantur after prius quam indicates temporal anticipation and the intention to avoid the pursuing weapons.