§10.154iungit opes foedusque ferit; tum libera fati §10.155classem conscendit iussis gens Lydia divom, §10.156externo commissa duci.
joins forces and strikes a treaty; then, free from fate, the Lydian race boards the fleet at the bidding of the gods, committed to a foreign leader.
Aeneia puppis §10.157prima tenet, rostro Phrygios subiuncta leones, §10.158imminet Ida super, profugis gratissima Teucris.
The ship of Aeneas holds the lead, with Phrygian lions harnessed under her beak, while Mount Ida towers above, most dear to the exiled Trojans.
§10.159Hic magnus sedet Aeneas secumque volutat §10.160eventus belli varios, Pallasque sinistro §10.161adfixus lateri iam quaerit sidera, opacae §10.162noctis iter, iam quae passus terraque marique.
Here great Aeneas sits and revolves in his mind the varied outcomes of war, and Pallas, clinging to his left side, now asks about the stars, the path of the dark night, and now about what he had suffered on land and sea.
§10.163Pandite nunc Helicona, deae, cantusque movete, §10.164quae manus interea Tuscis comitetur ab oris §10.165Aenean armetque rates pelagoque vehatur.
Open Helicon now, goddesses, and stir up your songs, to tell what force meanwhile accompanies Aeneas from Tuscan shores and arms his ships and is carried on the deep.
§10.166Massicus aerata princeps secat aequora tigri: §10.167sub quo mille manus iuvenum, qui moenia Clusi §10.168quique urbem liquere Cosas, quis tela sagittae §10.169gorytique leves umeris et letifer arcus.
Massicus first cuts the waters in his bronze-plated Tiger: under whom is a band of a thousand youths, who left the walls of Clusium and who left the city of Cosae; whose weapons are arrows, light quivers on their shoulders, and a deadly bow.
§10.170Una torvus Abas: huic totum insignibus armis §10.171agmen et aurato fulgebat Apolline puppis.
With him is grim Abas: all his troop shone with noble armor and his ship gleamed with a gilded Apollo.
§10.172Sescentos illi dederat Populonia mater §10.173expertos belli iuvenes, ast Ilva trecentos §10.174insula inexhaustis Chalybum generosa metallis.
Mother Populonia had given him six hundred youths experienced in war, and Ilva three hundred, an island noble with inexhaustible mines of the Chalybes.
§10.175Tertius ille hominum divomque interpres Asilas, §10.176cui pecudum fibrae, caeli cui sidera parent §10.177et linguae volucrum et praesagi fulminis ignes, §10.178mille rapit densos acie atque horrentibus hastis.
Third comes Asilas, that interpreter of men and gods, whom the entrails of beasts, the stars of heaven obey, and the tongues of birds and the presaging fires of lightning; he rushes a thousand men, dense in array and with bristling spears.
These Pisae, Etruscan in soil, Alphean in origin, orders to obey him.
Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur, §10.181Astur equo fidens et versicoloribus armis.
Most beautiful Astur follows, Astur trusting in his horse and many-colored armor.
§10.182Tercentum adiciunt (mens omnibus una sequendi) §10.183qui Caerete domo, qui sunt Minionis in arvis, §10.184et Pyrgi veteres intempestaeque Graviscae.
Three hundred add themselves (all have one mind to follow) who are from homes in Caere, who are in the fields of the Minio, and ancient Pyrgi and unhealthy Graviscae.
§10.185Non ego te, Ligurum ductor fortissime bello, §10.186transierim, Cinyre, et paucis comitate Cupavo, §10.187cuius olorinae surgunt de vertice pennae, §10.188crimen, Amor, vestrum formaeque insigne paternae.
I would not pass you by, bravest leader of the Ligurians in war, Cinyras, and Cupavo accompanied by few, from whose crest rise swan feathers, a charge against you, Amor, and the emblem of his father's form.
§10.189Namque ferunt luctu Cycnum Phaethontis amati, §10.190populeas inter frondes umbramque sororum §10.191dum canit et maestum Musa solatur amorem, §10.192canentem molli pluma duxisse senectam, §10.193linquentem terras et sidera voce sequentem.
For they say that Cycnus, out of grief for his beloved Phaethon, while he sang among the poplar leaves and the shade of the sisters, and consoled his sad love with the Muse, brought on a white old age in soft plumage, leaving the earth and following the stars with his voice.
§10.194Filius, aequalis comitatus classe catervas, §10.195ingentem remis Centaurum promovet: ille §10.196instat aquae saxumque undis immane minatur §10.197arduus et longa sulcat maria alta carina.
His son, accompanying his equal bands with the fleet, drives forward the huge Centaur with oars: the ship presses the water and threatens the waves with a huge rock, towering high, and furrows the deep seas with its long keel.
§10.198Ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris, §10.199fatidicae Mantus et Tusci filius amnis, §10.200qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen, §10.201Mantua, dives avis; sed non genus omnibus unum: §10.202gens illi triplex, populi sub gente quaterni, §10.203ipsa caput populis, Tusco de sanguine vires.
That Ocnus too summons a troop from his native shores, son of prophetic Manto and the Tuscan river, who gave you walls, Mantua, and your mother's name, Mantua, rich in ancestors; but they do not all have one race: she has a threefold race, four peoples under each race, herself the head of the peoples, her strength from Tuscan blood.
§10.204Hinc quoque quingentos in se Mezentius armat, §10.205quos patre Benaco velatus harundine glauca §10.206Mincius infesta ducebat in aequora pinu.
Hence too Mezentius arms five hundred against himself, whom Mincius, from father Benacus, veiled in gray reed, led into the sea in a hostile pine.
§10.207It gravis Aulestes centenaque arbore fluctum §10.208verberat adsurgens, spumant vada marmore verso.
Heavy Aulestes goes and, rising, strikes the flood with a hundred trees; the waters foam as the surface is overturned.
§10.209Hunc vehit immanis Triton et caerula concha §10.210exterrens freta, cui laterum tenus hispida nanti §10.211frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit alvus: §10.212spumea semifero sub pectore murmurat unda.
The immense Triton carries him, terrifying the blue seas with his shell; as he swims, his shaggy front down to the flanks presents a man, and his belly ends in a sea monster: the foamy wave murmurs beneath his half-wild breast.
§10.213Tot lecti proceres ter denis navibus ibant §10.214subsidio Troiae et campos salis aera secabant.
So many chosen leaders went in thirty ships to the aid of Troy, and cut the salt plains with bronze.
§10.215Iamque dies caelo concesserat almaque curru §10.216noctivago Phoebe medium pulsabat Olympum: §10.217Aeneas (neque enim membris dat cura quietem) §10.218ipse sedens clavumque regit velisque ministrat.
And now day had departed from the sky, and kindly Phoebe in her night-wandering chariot was striking mid-Olympus: Aeneas (for care gives no rest to his limbs) himself sitting, guides the rudder and attends to the sails.
§10.219Atque illi medio in spatio chorus ecce suarum §10.220occurrit comitum: nymphae, quas alma Cybebe §10.221numen habere maris nymphasque e navibus esse §10.222iusserat, innabant pariter fluctusque secabant, §10.223quot prius aeratae steterant ad litora prorae.
And behold, in the middle of his course, a band of his own companions meets him: the nymphs, whom kindly Cybele had ordered to have the divinity of the sea and to be nymphs from ships, were swimming abreast and cutting the waves, as many as had previously stood as bronze-plated prows on the shore.
§10.224Agnoscunt longe regem lustrantque choreis, §10.225quarum quae fandi doctissima Cymodocea §10.226pone sequens dextra puppim tenet ipsaque dorso §10.227eminet ac laeva tacitis subremigat undis, §10.228tum sic ignarum adloquitur:
Vigilasne, deum gens,
They recognize the king from afar and encircle him with dances; of whom Cymodocea, the most skilled in speaking, following behind, holds the stern with her right hand, and rises with her back, while she paddles beneath the silent waves with her left, then thus addresses him in his ignorance: "Are you awake, offspring of the gods, Aeneas?
§10.229Aenea? Vigila et velis immitte rudentis.
Awake, and let loose the sheets of the sails.
We are the pines from the sacred peak of Ida, now nymphs of the sea, your fleet.
Perfidus ut nos
When the treacherous one...