§10.533sustulit ista prior iam tum Pallante perempto.
Turnus has already abolished those commercial transactions of war beforehand, at the very moment Pallas was slain.
§10.534Hoc patris Anchisae manes, hoc sentit Iulus. §10.535Sic fatus galeam laeva tenet atque reflexa §10.536cervice orantis capulo tenus applicat ensem.
This the shades of father Anchises, this Iulus feels." So speaking, he holds the helmet with his left hand, and drawing back the neck of the suppliant, drives the sword in up to the hilt.
§10.537Nec procul Haemonides, Phoebi Triviaeque sacerdos, §10.538infula cui sacra redimibat tempora vitta, §10.539totus conlucens veste atque insignibus armis.
And not far away was Haemonides, priest of Phoebus and Trivia, whose sacred temples a headband bound with its fillet, shining all over in his robe and conspicuous armor.
§10.540Quem congressus agit campo lapsumque superstans §10.541immolat ingentique umbra tegit; arma Serestus §10.542lecta refert umeris, tibi, rex Gradive, tropaeum.
Meeting him, Aeneas drives him across the field, and standing over him as he fell, he sacrifices him and covers him with a great shadow; Serestus carries back the gathered arms on his shoulders, a trophy for you, King Gradivus.
§10.543Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus §10.544Caeculus et veniens Marsorum montibus Umbro: §10.545Dardanides contra furit.
Caeculus, born of Vulcan's stock, and Umbro, coming from the mountains of the Marsi, restore the ranks: The Dardanian rages against them.
Anxuris ense sinistram §10.546et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem; §10.547dixerat ille aliquid magnum vimque adfore verbo §10.548crediderat caeloque animum fortasse ferebat §10.549canitiemque sibi et longos promiserat annos: §10.550Tarquitus exultans contra fulgentibus armis, §10.551silvicolae Fauno Dryope quem nympha crearat, §10.552obvius ardenti sese obtulit.
He had struck off with his sword Anxur's left hand and the whole circle of his shield with the iron; he had spoken some big boast and believed there would be power in his word, and perhaps he was raising his spirit to heaven, and had promised himself gray hair and long years: Tarquitus, exulting against him in shining arms, whom the nymph Dryope had borne to forest-dwelling Faunus, threw himself in the path of the raging hero.
Ille reducta §10.553loricam clipeique ingens onus impedit hasta; §10.554tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis §10.555dicere deturbat terrae truncumque tepentem §10.556provolvens super haec inimico pectore fatur: §10.557Istic nunc, metuende, iace.
Drawing back, Aeneas pins his corselet and the huge weight of his shield with his spear; then, as he was begging in vain and preparing to say many things, he strikes down his head to the earth, and rolling over the warm trunk, he speaks these words over it with a hostile breast: "Lie there now, terrible one.
Non te optima mater §10.558condet humi patrioque onerabit membra sepulchro: §10.559alitibus linquere feris aut gurgite mersum §10.560unda feret piscesque impasti volnera lambent. §10.561Protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni, §10.562persequitur fortemque Numam fulvumque Camertem, §10.563magnanimo Volcente satum, ditissimus agri §10.564qui fuit Ausonidum et tacitis regnavit Amyclis.
No loving mother shall bury you in the earth, or weigh down your limbs with an ancestral tomb: you shall be left to the wild birds, or, submerged in the deep, the wave will carry you, and hungry fish will lick your wounds." Straightway he pursues Antaeus and Lucas, Turnus' foremost ranks, and brave Numa and yellow-haired Camers, born of great-hearted Volcens, who was the richest in land of the Ausonians and ruled silent Amyclae.
§10.565Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt §10.566centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem §10.567pectoribusque arsisse, Iovis cum fulmina contra §10.568tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret enses: §10.569sic toto Aeneas desaevit in aequore victor, §10.570ut semel intepuit mucro.
Just as Aegaeon, who, they say, had a hundred arms and a hundred hands, and blazed with fire from fifty mouths and breasts, when against Jupiter's thunderbolts he clashed with as many matching shields and drew as many swords: so Aeneas, victorious, rages over the whole plain, once his blade grew warm.
Quin ecce Niphaei §10.571quadriiugis in equos adversaque pectora tendit.
Nay, look, he directs his course against the four-horse chariot of Niphaeus and his opposing breast.
§10.572Atque illi longe gradientem et dira frementem §10.573ut videre, metu versi retroque ruentes §10.574effunduntque ducem rapiuntque ad litora currus.
And they, when they saw him striding from afar and raging terribly, turned in fear and rushing backward, threw out their leader and hurried the chariot to the shores.
§10.575Interea biiugis infert se Lucagus albis §10.576in medios fraterque Liger; sed frater habenis §10.577flectit equos, strictum rotat acer Lucagus ensem.
Meanwhile Lucagus charges into the midst with two white horses, and his brother Liger; but the brother guides the horses with the reins, while fierce Lucagus whirls his drawn sword.
Aeneas did not endure them raging with such ardor: he rushed on, and loomed huge with opposing spear.
§10.580Cui Liger: §10.581Non Diomedis equos nec currum cernis Achillis §10.582aut Phrygiae campos: nunc belli finis et aevi §10.583his dabitur terris. Vesano talia late §10.584dicta volant Ligeri.
To him Liger said: "You do not see the horses of Diomedes, nor the chariot of Achilles, or the Phrygian plains: now the end of the war and of your life shall be given on these lands." Such words fly widely from mad Liger.
Sed non et Troïus heros §10.585dicta parat contra: iaculum nam torquet in hostem.
But the Trojan hero does not prepare words in reply: for he hurls his javelin at the enemy.
§10.586Lucagus ut pronus pendens in verbera telo §10.587admonuit biiugos, proiecto dum pede laevo §10.588aptet se pugnae, subit oras hasta per imas §10.589fulgentis clipei, tum laevum perforat inguen: §10.590excussus curru moribundus volvitur arvis.
As Lucagus, leaning forward, hanging over to lash them, urged on his horses with the whip, while thrusting out his left foot to prepare himself for battle, the spear enters through the lowest edges of his shining shield, then pierces his left groin: thrown from the chariot, he rolls dying on the plains.
§10.591Quem pius Aeneas dictis adfatur amaris: §10.592Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum §10.593prodidit aut vanae vertere ex hostibus umbrae: §10.594ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris. Haec ita fatus §10.595arripuit biiugos; frater tendebat inertis §10.596infelix palmas, curru delapsus eodem: §10.597Per te, per qui te talem genuere parentes, §10.598vir Troiane, sine hanc animam et miserere precantis. §10.599Pluribus oranti Aeneas:
Haud talia dudum
Whom pious Aeneas addresses with bitter words: "Lucagus, no cowardly flight of horses betrayed your chariot, or empty shadows from the enemy turned them back: you yourself, leaping from the wheels, desert the yoke." Speaking thus, he seized the chariot; his unhappy brother stretched out helpless palms, having slipped from the same chariot: "By you, by the parents who bore you so great, Trojan man, spare this life and pity a suppliant!" To him begging with more words, Aeneas says: "Not such words did you speak a moment ago.
§10.600dicta dabas. Morere et fratrem ne desere frater. §10.601Tum latebras animae pectus mucrone recludit.
Die, and let brother not desert brother." Then with his blade he opens up the breast, the hiding-place of the soul.
§10.602Talia per campos edebat funera ductor §10.603Dardanius, torrentis aquae vel turbinis atri §10.604more furens.
Such deaths was the Dardanian leader causing across the plains, raging like a torrential stream or a black whirlwind mode.
Tandem erumpunt et castra relinquunt §10.605Ascanius puer et nequiquam obsessa iuventus.
At length they break out and leave the camp, the boy Ascanius and the youth besieged in vain.
§10.606Iunonem interea compellat Iuppiter ultro: §10.607O germana mihi atque eadem gratissima coniunx
, §10.608ut rebare, Venus, nec te sententia fallit, §10.609Troianas sustentat opes, non vivida bello §10.610dextra viris animusque ferox patiensque pericli.
Meanwhile Jupiter addresses Juno of his own accord: "O my sister and also my most beloved wife, as you believed—nor does your opinion deceive you—Venus sustains the Trojan power, not the right hand vigorous in war of the men, and their fierce spirit and endurance of danger."