§10.611Cui Iuno summissa
Quid, o pulcherrime coniunx, §10.612sollicitas aegram et tua tristia dicta timentem?
Juno, humbled, addressed him: "Why, o most handsome husband, do you trouble me, who am sick and fearing your harsh words?
§10.613Si mihi, quae quondam fuerat quamque esse decebat, §10.614vis in amore foret, non hoc mihi namque negares, §10.615omnipotens, quin et pugnae subducere Turnum §10.616et Dauno possem incolumem servare parenti.
If I had that power in love, which once had been mine and which it was fitting to be, you would not indeed deny this to me, almighty one, namely, that I might both withdraw Turnus from the battle and preserve him safe for his father Daunus.
§10.617Nunc pereat Teucrisque pio det sanguine poenas.
Now let him perish and pay the penalty to the Trojans with his pious blood.
§10.618Ille tamen nostra deducit origine nomen §10.619Pilumnusque illi quartus pater et tua larga §10.620saepe manu multisque oneravit limina donis. §10.621Cui rex aetherii breviter sic fatur Olympi: §10.622Si mora praesentis leti tempusque caduco §10.623oratur iuveni meque hoc ita ponere sentis, §10.624tolle fuga Turnum atque instantibus eripe fatis §10.625hactenus indulsisse vacat.
Yet he derives his name from our lineage, and Pilumnus is his fourth ancestor, and often with your generous hand he has loaded your thresholds with many gifts." To whom the king of ethereal Olympus briefly speaks thus: "If a delay of present death and time for the falling youth is prayed for, and you understand that I so ordain it, take Turnus away by flight and rescue him from the threatening fates: so far I have leisure to indulge you.
Sin altior istis §10.626sub precibus venia ulla latet totumque moveri §10.627mutarive putas bellum, spes pascis inanis. §10.628Et Iuno adlacrimans:
Quid si, quae voce gravaris, §10.629mente dares atque haec Turno rata vita maneret?
But if any deeper favor lies hidden under those prayers of yours, and you think the whole war is being moved or changed, you are feeding empty hopes." And Juno, weeping: "What if you were to grant in your mind what you grudge with your voice, and this life should remain assured to Turnus?
Now a heavy end awaits the innocent youth, or I am carried away empty of truth.
Quod ut O potius formidine falsa §10.632ludar et in melius tua, qui potes, orsa reflectas! §10.633Haec ubi dicta dedit, caelo se protinus alto §10.634misit, agens hiemem nimbo succincta per auras, §10.635Iliacamque aciem et Laurentia castra petivit.
Oh, would that I rather be mocked by a false fear, and you, who are able, would turn your undertakings to the better!" When she gave these words, straightway from the high heaven she cast herself down, driving a storm, girt with a cloud through the air, and sought the Iliac line and the Laurentian camp.
§10.636Tum dea nube cava tenuem sine viribus umbram §10.637in faciem Aeneae, visu mirabile monstrum, §10.638Dardaniis ornat telis clipeumque iubasque §10.639divini adsimulat capitis, dat inania verba, §10.640dat sine mente sonum gressusque effingit euntis, §10.641morte obita qualis fama est volitare figuras §10.642aut quae sopitos deludunt somnia sensus.
Then the goddess from a hollow cloud makes a thin, strengthless phantom in the likeness of Aeneas—a marvel wonderful to behold— she equips it with Dardanian weapons, and counterfeits the shield and the crests of his divine head, gives it empty words, gives it sound without thought, and fashions the gait of one walking; like the figures that they say flit about when death is met, or the dreams which mock the sleeping senses.
But the image exults joyful before the foremost ranks, and provokes the man with weapons and challenges him with voice.
§10.645Instat cui Turnus stridentemque eminus hastam §10.646conicit: illa dato vertit vestigia tergo.
Turnus presses upon it, and from afar hurls his whirring spear: it turns its steps, showing its back.
§10.647Tum vero Aenean aversum ut cedere Turnus §10.648credidit atque animo spem turbidus hausit inanem, §10.649Quo fugis, Aenea? Thalamos ne desere pactos;
Then indeed, when Turnus believed that Aeneas had turned and yielded, and in his turbulent mind drank in empty hope: "Whither do you flee, Aeneas?
§10.650hac dabitur dextra tellus quaesita per undas. §10.651Talia vociferans sequitur strictumque coruscat §10.652mucronem nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos.
Do not desert the pledged marriage chamber; the land sought through the waves shall be given by this right hand." Vociferating such things, he pursues and brandishes his drawn sword, nor does he see that the winds are carrying away his joys.
§10.653Forte ratis celsi coniuncta crepidine saxi §10.654expositis stabat scalis et ponte parato, §10.655qua rex Clusinis advectus Osinius oris.
By chance, a ship, joined to the edge of a high rock, stood with its ladders let down and bridge ready, on which King Osinius had sailed from the Clusian shores.
§10.656Huc sese trepida Aeneae fugientis imago §10.657conicit in latebras; nec Turnus segnior instat §10.658exsuperatque moras et pontis transilit altos.
Hither the trembling image of the fleeing Aeneas flings itself into hiding; nor does Turnus pursue any slower, overcomes all obstacles and leaps across the high bridge.
§10.659Vix proram attigerat: rumpit Saturnia funem §10.660avolsamque rapit revoluta per aequora navem.
Scarcely had he touched the prow: the daughter of Saturn breaks the cable and carries away the torn-away ship through the rolling waters.
§10.661Illum autem Aeneas absentem in praelia poscit; §10.662obvia multa virum demittit corpora morti: §10.663tum levis haud ultra latebras iam quaerit imago, §10.664sed sublime volans nubi se immiscuit atrae.
But Aeneas demands him, absent, for battle; he sends down many bodies of men meeting him to death: then the light image no longer seeks hiding places, but flying high, mingled itself with a dark cloud.
§10.665Cum Turnum medio interea fert aequore turbo.
Meanwhile, the whirlwind carries Turnus through the middle of the sea.
§10.666Respicit ignarus rerum ingratusque salutis §10.667et duplicis cum voce manus ad sidera tendit: §10.668Omnipotens genitor, tanton me crimine dignum §10.669duxisti et talis voluisti expendere poenas?
He looks back, ignorant of the situation and ungrateful for his safety, and stretches both hands to the stars with a cry: "Almighty father, did you deem me worthy of so great a crime, and did you wish me to pay such a penalty?
§10.670Quo feror? Unde abii? Quae me fuga quemve reducit?
Whither am I carried? Whence have I departed? What flight brings me back, or as what sort of man?
§10.671Laurentisne iterum muros aut castra videbo?
Shall I see the Laurentine walls or camp again?
§10.672Quid manus illa virum, qui me meaque arma secuti?
What of that band of men, who followed me and my arms?
§10.673Quosne (nefas) omnis infanda in morte reliqui §10.674et nunc palantis video gemitumque cadentum
Whom (ah, wickedness!) I have left all behind in unspeakable death, and now I see them wandering, and hear the groans of the falling!
§10.675accipio! Quid ago? Aut quae iam satis ima dehiscat
What am I doing? Or what earth could now gape deep enough for me?
§10.676terra mihi? Vos O potius miserescite venti: §10.677in rupes, in saxa, volens vos Turnus adoro §10.678ferte ratem saevisque vadis immittite Syrtis, §10.679quo neque me Rutuli nec conscia fama sequatur. §10.680Haec memorans animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc, §10.681an sese mucrone ob tantum dedecus amens §10.682induat et crudum per costas exigat ensem,
Rather do you, O winds, have pity on me: upon the cliffs, upon the rocks, Turnus willingly implores you, carry the ship, and cast it onto the fierce shallows of Syrtis, whither neither the Rutulians nor conscious fame may follow me." Expressing these things, he fluctuates in mind now here, now there, whether, maddened on account of so great a disgrace, he should impale himself on the sword point, and drive the cruel blade through his ribs,