§1.56.1ἐν ᾧ δὲ οὗτοι τὰς εὐχὰς ἐποιήσαντο, ἡ μέλλουσα καθιεροῦσθαι ὗς ἐγκύμων οὖσα καὶ οὐ πρόσω τόκου καταρχομένων αὐτῆς τῶν θυτήρων διασεισαμένη καὶ ἀποφυγοῦσα τοὺς κατέχοντας ἄνω ἔθει.
While these were offering up their prayers, the pregnant sow that was about to be dedicated, being near her time of delivery, shook herself free and, escaping from those who held her as the sacrificers were beginning the ceremony upon her, ran inland.
Αἰνείας δὲ μαθὼν ὅτι ταύτην ἄρα τὴν τετράποδα ἡγεμόνα τὸ θέσφατον αὐτοῖς ἐδήλου παρηκολούθει σὺν ὀλίγοις μικρὸν ὑπολειπόμενος, δεδοικὼς μὴ ὑπὸ θορύβου τῶν διωκόντων ἀποτραπείη τῆς κατὰ §1.56.2δαίμονα ὁδοῦ.
Aeneas, understanding that this was indeed the four-footed leader that the oracle had indicated to them, followed her with a few men, keeping a short distance behind, fearing lest, by the noise of those who pursued her, she might be turned aside from her divinely-guided path.
καὶ ἡ μὲν ἀμφὶ τοὺς εἴκοσι καὶ τέτταρας σταδίους ἀπὸ θαλάττης διελθοῦσα λόφον τινὰ προσανατρέχει, ἔνθα ὑπὸ καμάτου μοχθήσασα καθέζεται.
And she, after covering about twenty-four stades from the sea, ran up a certain hill, where, worn out by fatigue, she lay down.
τῷ δὲ Αἰνείᾳ ʽτέλος γὰρ τὰ μαντεύματα ἐφαίνετο ἔχεινʼ ὁρῶντι τὸ χωρίον γῆς τε οὐκ ἐν καλῷ καὶ θαλάττης πρόσω καὶ οὐδὲ ταύτης ἐνορμίσασθαι ἀγαθῆς, πολλὴ παρίσταται ἀμηχανία, πότερα χρὴ τῷ θεσφάτῳ πειθομένους αὐτοῦ κατοικεῖν, ἔνθα λυπηρὸν εἰσαεὶ βίον τρίψουσιν οὐδενὸς χρηστοῦ ἀπολαύοντες, ἢ προσωτέρω χωρητέον ἐπὶ γῆς ἀμείνονος μάστευσιν.
But Aeneas—for the oracles now seemed to have reached their fulfillment—seeing that the place was neither in a fertile part of the land nor near the sea, and that not even this sea afforded a good harbor, was seized with great perplexity, whether they ought, in obedience to the oracle, to settle there, where they would lead a miserable life forever, enjoying no good thing, or whether they should proceed further in search of a better land.
§1.56.3ταῦτα δὲ αὐτῷ διανοουμένῳ καὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ἔχοντι διʼ αἰτίας ἄφνω λέγεται φωνή τις ἐκ τῆς νάπης ἀφανοῦς ὄντος τοῦ φθεγγομένου προσπεσεῖν κελεύουσα μένειν τε αὐτόθι καὶ πολίζεσθαι διὰ ταχέων καὶ μὴ τῷ ἀπόρῳ τῆς παρούσης δόξης ἐπιτρέψαντα, εἰ μὴ ἐν εὐβότῳ γῇ τὸν βίον ἱδρύσεται, τὴν μέλλουσάν τε καὶ §1.56.4ὅσον οὔπω παροῦσαν εὐτυχίαν ἀπώσασθαι.
While he was revolving these thoughts in his mind and blaming the gods, suddenly a voice, it is said, came to him from the grove, though the speaker was invisible, commanding him to remain there and build a city without delay, and not, by yielding to the difficulty of their present expectation because his life was not being established in a fertile land, to reject the future and almost immediate prosperity.
εἶναι γὰρ αὐτῷ πεπρωμένον ἐκ ταύτης ὁρμώμενον τῆς λυπρᾶς καὶ ὀλίγης τὸ πρῶτον οἰκήσεως πολλὴν καὶ ἀγαθὴν ἐπικτήσασθαι γῆν σὺν χρόνῳ· παισὶ δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐγγόνοις ἔσεσθαι ἀρχὴν μεγίστην καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον χρόνον ἐκμηκυνθησομένην ὑπάρξαι.
For it was fated for him that, starting from this mean and small settlement at first, he should in time acquire a vast and fertile land; and that his children and descendants should possess a dominion of the greatest extent and duration.
ταύτην μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ παρόντι καταγωγὴν ἔσεσθαι τοῖς Τρωσί· μετὰ δὲ τοσούτους ἐνιαυτοὺς ὅσους ἂν ἡ ὗς τέκῃ χοίρους κτισθήσεσθαι πρὸς τῶν ἐξ ἐκείνου γενησομένων πόλιν ἑτέραν εὐδαίμονα καὶ μεγάλην.
For the present, therefore, this was to be the lodging for the Trojans; but after as many years as the sow should bring forth young, another city, prosperous and great, would be founded by his descendants.
μαθόντα δὲ τὸν Αἰνείαν καὶ νομίσαντα δαιμόνιόν τι τὸ χρῆμα τῆς φωνῆς εἶναι ποιεῖν ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἐκέλευεν.
Aeneas, understanding this and believing that the matter of the voice was something divine, acted as the god commanded.
§1.56.5ἕτεροι δὲ λέγουσιν ἀδημονοῦντι τῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ παρεικότι τὸ σῶμα ὑπὸ λύπης καὶ οὔτε ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον καταβάντι οὔτε σῖτα προσενεγκαμένῳ, αὐτοῦ δὲ ὡς ἔτυχεν αὐλισθέντι τὴν νύκτʼ ἐκείνην, ἐπιστῆναι μεγάλην τινὰ καὶ θαυμαστὴν ἐνυπνίου τῶν θεῶν τινι τῶν πατρίων εἰκασθεῖσαν ὄψιν τὰ λεχθέντα μικρῷ πρότερον ὑποτιθεμένην· ὁποτέρως δὲ τἀληθὲς ἔχει θεοῖς ἂν εἴη γνώριμον.
But others say that, as the man was in distress and had abandoned his body to grief, and had neither gone down to the camp nor taken any food, but had passed that night where he was, as chance directed, a great and wonderful vision in his sleep, resembling one of his ancestral gods, stood before him and suggested the same things that have been mentioned a little before; but which of these two versions is true, the gods alone must know.
τῇ δʼ ἑξῆς ἡμέρᾳ τριάκοντα λέγεται χοίρους ἡ ὗς ἐκτεκεῖν, καὶ τοσούτοις ἐνιαυτοῖς ὕστερον ὑπὸ τῶν Τρώων ἑτέρα κτισθῆναι πόλις κατὰ τὸ θέσφατον, ὑπὲρ ἧς ἐν τῷ οἰκείῳ τόπῳ διαλέξομαι.
On the following day, the sow is said to have brought forth thirty piglets, and just so many years later, another city was built by the Trojans in accordance with the oracle, of which I shall speak in its proper place.