§1.529non ea vis animo, nec tanta superbia victis.
No such violence is in our mind, nor is there such pride in the vanquished.
§1.530Est locus, Hesperiam Grai cognomine dicunt, §1.531terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glaebae; §1.532Oenotri coluere viri; nunc fama minores §1.533Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem.
There is a place, the Greeks call it Hesperia by name, an ancient land, mighty in arms and in the richness of its soil; Oenotrian men cultivated it; now there is a rumor that their descendants have called the nation Italy from the name of their leader.
§1.534Hic cursus fuit: §1.535cum subito adsurgens fluctu nimbosus Orion §1.536in vada caeca tulit, penitusque procacibus austris §1.537perque undas, superante salo, perque invia saxa §1.538dispulit; huc pauci vestris adnavimus oris.
This was our course: when suddenly rising with a wave, stormy Orion carried us into hidden shallows, and with completely boisterous south winds scattered us both through the waves, with the sea overwhelming, and through trackless rocks; here a few of us have drifted to your shores.
§1.539Quod genus hoc hominum? Quaeve hunc tam barbara morem §1.540permittit patria? Hospitio prohibemur harenae; §1.541bella cient, primaque vetant consistere terra.
What race of men is this? Or what so barbarous country permits this custom? We are prohibited from the hospitality of the sand; they stir up wars, and forbid us to stand on the edge of the land.
If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect gods mindful of right and wrong.
Aeneas was our king, than whom another more just was not in piety, nor greater in war and arms.
§1.546Quem si fata virum servant, si vescitur aura §1.547aetheria, neque adhuc crudelibus occubat umbris, §1.548non metus; officio nec te certasse priorem §1.549paeniteat.
If the fates preserve this man, if he feeds on the ethereal air, and does not yet lie dead among the cruel shades, there is no fear; nor should it repent you to have striven first in kindness.
Sunt et Siculis regionibus urbes §1.550arvaque, Troianoque a sanguine clarus Acestes.
There are also cities in Sicilian regions and fields, and famous Acestes from Trojan blood.
§1.551Quassatam ventis liceat subducere classem, §1.552et silvis aptare trabes et stringere remos: §1.553si datur Italiam, sociis et rege recepto, §1.554tendere, ut Italiam laeti Latiumque petamus; §1.555sin absumpta salus, et te, pater optume Teucrum, §1.556pontus habet Lybiae, nec spes iam restat Iuli, §1.557at freta Sicaniae saltem sedesque paratas, §1.558unde huc advecti, regemque petamus Acesten. §1.559Talibus Ilioneus; cuncti simul ore fremebant §1.560Dardanidae.
Let it be permitted to draw up our fleet shattered by the winds, and to fashion planks in the forests and trim oars: if it is granted to stretch toward Italy, our companions and king recovered, so that we may joyfully seek Italy and Latium; but if safety has been taken away, and you, best father of the Trojans, the sea of Libya holds, and no hope of Iulus now remains, yet at least let us seek the straits of Sicania and the prepared homes, from where we were carried here, and seek king Acestes." With such words Ilioneus spoke; all the Trojans together shouted assent.
§1.561Tum breviter Dido, voltum demissa, profatur: §1.562Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas.
Then briefly Dido, with lowered look, speaks out: "Dismiss fear from your heart, Trojans, shut out cares.
Hard necessity and the novelty of my kingdom compel me to construct such things, and to guard my borders widely with a guard.
§1.565Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem, §1.566virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?
Who does not know the race of Aeneas' people, who the city of Troy, and its virtues and heroes, or the fires of so great a war?
We Carthaginians do not carry minds so blunt, nor does the Sun yoke his horses so turned away from the Tyrian city.
§1.569Seu vos Hesperiam magnam Saturniaque arva, §1.570sive Erycis finis regemque optatis Acesten, §1.571auxilio tutos dimittam, opibusque iuvabo.
Whether you desire great Hesperia and the fields of Saturn, or the borders of Eryx and king Acestes, I will send you away safe with help, and will assist you with resources.
§1.572Voltis et his mecum pariter considere regnis;
Or do you wish to settle on equal terms with me in these kingdoms?
§1.573urbem quam statuo vestra est, subducite navis; §1.574Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.
The city which I build is yours; draw up your ships; Trojan and Tyrian will be treated by me with no distinction.
And would that the king himself, driven by the same South wind, Aeneas, were present!
§1.577dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo, §1.578si quibus eiectus silvis aut urbibus errat. §1.579His animum arrecti dictis et fortis Achates §1.580et pater Aeneas iamdudum erumpere nubem §1.581ardebant.
Indeed, through the shores reliable men I will send and command them to search the extremes of Libya, if, cast out, he wanders in any forests or cities." Inspirited in mind by these words, both brave Achates and father Aeneas were burning already for a long time to break out of the cloud.
Prior Aenean compellat Achates: §1.582Nate dea, quae nunc animo sententia surgit?
Achates addresses Aeneas first: "Goddess-born, what decision now rises in your mind?
§1.583omnia tuta vides, classem sociosque receptos.
You see all is safe, the fleet and companions recovered.
§1.584Unus abest, medio in fluctu quem vidimus ipsi §1.585submersum; dictis respondent cetera matris. §1.586Vix ea fatus erat, cum circumfusa repente §1.587scindit se nubes et in aethera purgat apertum.
One is missing, whom we ourselves saw in the midst of the wave submerged; the rest respond to the words of your mother." Scarcely had he spoken these things, when suddenly the surrounding cloud splits itself and clears into open air.
§1.588Restitit Aeneas claraque in luce refulsit, §1.589os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoram §1.590caesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventae §1.591purpureum et laetos oculis adflarat honores: §1.592quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut ubi flavo §1.593argentum Pariusve lapis circumdatur auro.
Aeneas stood and shone in clear light, in face and shoulders like a god; for his mother herself had breathed beautiful hair upon her son, and the glowing light of youth, and joyful graces upon his eyes: such grace as hands add to ivory, or when Parian stone or silver is surrounded by yellow gold.
§1.594Tum sic reginam adloquitur, cunctisque repente §1.595improvisus ait:
Coram, quem quaeritis, adsum, §1.596Troius Aeneas, Lybicis ereptus ab undis.
Then thus he addresses the queen, and suddenly to all unexpectedly says: "Before you, whom you seek, I am present, Trojan Aeneas, snatched from Libyan waves.
§1.597O sola infandos Troiae miserata labores, §1.598quae nos, reliquias Danaum, terraeque marisque §1.599omnibus exhaustos iam casibus, omnium egenos, §1.600urbe, domo, socias, grates persolvere dignas §1.601non opis est nostrae, Dido, nec quicquid ubique est §1.602gentis Dardaniae, magnum quae sparsa per orbem.
O you who alone have pitied the unspeakable labors of Troy, who receive us, the remnants of the Greeks, exhausted by all misfortunes of land and sea, destitute of all things, in your city and home as allies; to pay worthy thanks is not of our power, Dido, nor of whatever of the Trojan race exists anywhere, which is scattered through the great world.
§1.603Di tibi, si qua pios respectant numina, si quid
May the gods, if any divinities respect the pious, if any