§10.232praecipitis ferro Rutulus flammaque premebat, §10.233rupimus invitae tua vincula teque per aequor §10.234quaerimus.
"the Rutulian was pressing us headlong with sword and flame, unwillingly we broke your cables and seek you through the sea.
Hanc Genetrix faciem miserata refecit §10.235et dedit esse deas aevumque agitare sub undis.
The Mother, pitying, remade this appearance of ours and granted us to be goddesses and to spend our life beneath the waves.
§10.236At puer Ascanius muro fossisque tenetur §10.237tela inter media atque horrentis Marte Latinos.
But the boy Ascanius is held by wall and ditches in the midst of weapons and Latins bristling with war.
§10.238Iam loca iussa tenent forti permixtus Etrusco §10.239Arcas eques: medias illis opponere turmas, §10.240ne castris iungant, certast sententia Turno.
Now the Arcadian cavalry, mingled with the brave Etruscan, hold the commanded locations; to oppose their middle squadrons to them, lest they join the camp, is Turnus' settled purpose.
§10.241Surge age et Aurora socios veniente vocari §10.242primus in arma iube et clipeum cape, quem dedit ipse §10.243invictum Ignipotens atque oras ambiit auro.
Rise, come, and as Dawn arrives, command your allies to be called first to arms, and take the shield which the Fire-lord himself gave unconquered, and rimmed its edges with gold.
§10.244Crastina lux, mea si non inrita dicta putaris, §10.245ingentis Rutulae spectabit caedis acervos. §10.246Dixerat, et dextra discedens impulit altam §10.247haud ignara modi puppim: fugit illa per undas §10.248ocior et iaculo et ventos aequante sagitta.
Tomorrow's light, if you do not think my words vain, will look upon huge heaps of Rutulian slaughter." She had spoken, and departing, with her right hand she pushed the high stern, not ignorant of the way; it flees through the waves swifter than both a javelin and an arrow that equals the winds.
§10.249Inde aliae celerant cursus.
Then the others speed their course.
Stupet inscius ipse §10.250Tros Anchisiades; animos tamen omine tollit.
He himself, unknowing, is amazed, the Trojan son of Anchises; yet he raises his spirits with the omen.
§10.251Tum breviter super adspectans convexa precatur: §10.252Alma parens Idaea deum, cui Dindyma cordi §10.253turrigeraeque urbis biiugique ad frena leones, §10.254tu mihi nunc pugnae princeps, tu rite propinques §10.255augurium Phrygibusque adsis pede, diva, secundo. §10.256Tantum effatus.
Then, looking up briefly at the vault above, he prays: "Kindly Idaean mother of the gods, to whom Dindyma is dear, and turreted cities, and lions coupled at the reins, be you now my leader in battle, do you duly bring near the omen, and attend the Phrygians with favorable favor, goddess." He spoke only so much.
Et interea revoluta rubebat §10.257matura iam luce dies noctemque fugarat: §10.258principio sociis edicit, signa sequantur §10.259atque animos aptent armis pugnaeque parent se.
And meanwhile, rolled round, was growing red day with mature light now, and had routed the night: first he commands his allies to follow the standards and fit their spirits to arms, and prepare themselves for battle.
§10.260Iamque in conspectu Teucros habet et sua castra, §10.261stans celsa in puppi; clipeum cum deinde sinistra §10.262extulit ardentem.
And now he has the Trojans and his camp in sight, standing on the high stern; when then with his left hand he raised his burning shield.
Clamorem ad sidera tollunt §10.263Dardanidae e muris, spes addita suscitat iras, §10.264tela manu iaciunt: quales sub nubibus atris §10.265Strymoniae dant signa grues atque aethera tranant §10.266cum sonitu fugiuntque notos clamore secundo.
They raise a shout to the stars, the Dardanians from the walls, hope added rouses their anger, they throw weapons from their hands: just as under dark clouds Strymonian cranes give signals and swim through the air with sound, and flee the south winds with favorable cry.
§10.267At Rutulo regi ducibusque ea mira videri §10.268Ausoniis, donec versas ad litora puppes §10.269respiciunt totumque adlabi classibus aequor.
But to the Rutulian king and the Ausonian leaders these things seemed wondrous, until they look back at the sterns turned to the shores and the whole sea gliding on with the fleets.
§10.270Ardet apex capiti cristisque a vertice flamma §10.271funditur et vastos umbo vomit aureus ignes: §10.272non secus ac liquida siquando nocte cometae §10.273sanguinei lugubre rubent aut Sirius ardor, §10.274ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris, §10.275nascitur et laevo contristat lumine caelum.
The peak burns on his head, and from the crest a flame from the top is poured, and the golden boss vomits vast fires: not otherwise than if ever in a clear night bloody comets glow mournfully, or the burning of Sirius, he, bringing thirst and diseases to weary mortals, rises and saddens the sky with unfavorable light.
Yet confidence did not leave bold Turnus to seize the shores beforehand and to drive the coming foes from the land.
"What you wished for in your prayers is here, to break through with the right hand; Mars himself is in the hands of men.
Nunc coniugis esto §10.281quisque suae tectique memor, nunc magna referto §10.282facta, patrum laudes.
Now let each be mindful of his wife and his home, now recall the great deeds, the praises of our fathers.
Ultro occurramus ad undam, §10.283dum trepidi egressisque labant vestigia prima.
Let us run to meet them at the water of our own accord, while they are flurried and their first steps waver as they disembark.
§10.284Audentis Fortuna iuvat, §10.285haec ait et secum versat, quos ducere contra §10.286vel quibus obsessos possit concredere muros.
Fortune helps the brave," so he speaks, and revolves in his mind whom he can lead against them or to whom he can entrust the besieged walls.
Meanwhile Aeneas disembarks his allies from the high sterns by gangplanks.
Multi servare recursus §10.289languentis pelagi et brevibus se credere saltu, §10.290per remos alii.
Many watch the retreats of the spent sea and trust themselves to the shallows with a leap, others by the oars.
Speculatus litora Tarchon, §10.291qua vada non sperat nec fracta remurmurat unda, §10.292sed mare inoffensum crescenti adlabitur aestu, §10.293advertit subito proram sociosque precatur: §10.294Nunc, o lecta manus, validis incumbite remis; §10.295tollite, ferte rates; inimicam findite rostris §10.296hanc terram, sulcumque sibi premat ipsa carina.
Tarchon, having surveyed the shores, where he expects no shallows, and no broken wave murmurs back, but the unobstructed sea glides in with the rising tide, suddenly turns his prow and implores his allies: "Now, o chosen band, lean on your strong oars; lift, drive the ships! cleave with your beaks this hostile land, and let the keel itself press a furrow for itself.
§10.297Frangere nec tali puppim statione recuso §10.298arrepta tellure semel. Quae talia postquam §10.299effatus Tarchon, socii consurgere tonsis §10.300spumantisque rates arvis inferre Latinis, §10.301donec rostra tenent siccum et sedere carinae §10.302omnes innocuae, sed non puppis tua, Tarchon.
Nor do I refuse to break the ship in such a mooring, once the land has been seized." After Tarchon spoke such words as these, his allies rise upon their oars and drive the foaming ships onto the Latin fields, until the beaks hold dry land and all the keels sat harmless, but not your ship, Tarchon.
§10.303Namque inflicta vadis dorso dum pendet iniquo, §10.304anceps sustentata diu fluctusque fatigat, §10.305solvitur atque viros mediis exponit in undis §10.306fragmina remorum quos et fluitantia transtra §10.307impediunt, retrahitque pedem simul unda relabens.
For, dashed upon the shallows, while she hangs on an uneven ridge, poised in doubt for a long time, and tires the waves, she breaks up and casts out the men into the midst of the waves, whom fragments of oars and floating benches hinder, and at the same time the ebbing wave pulls back their footing.