§10.78arva aliena iugo premere atque avertere praedas?
to press alien fields under the yoke and drive away plunder?
§10.79Quid soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas, §10.80pacem orare manu, praefigere puppibus arma?
What of choosing fathers-in-law and carrying away betrothed girls from their bosoms, praying for peace with the hand, while affixing weapons to their ships?
§10.81Tu potes Aenean manibus subducere Graium §10.82proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis, §10.83tu potes in totidem classem convertere nymphas: §10.84nos aliquid Rutulos contra iuvisse nefandum est?
You can withdraw Aeneas from the hands of the Greeks and in place of a man hold out a cloud and empty winds, you can turn a fleet into as many nymphs: is it a crime for us to have given some help to the Rutulians in turn?
§10.85Aeneas ignarus abest: ignarus et absit.
Aeneas is away, ignorant: let him be away, ignorant!
§10.86Est Paphus Idaliumque tibi, sunt alta Cythera: §10.87quid gravidam bellis urbem et corda aspera temptas?
You have Paphos and Idalium, high Cythera: why do you meddle with a city pregnant with wars and fierce hearts?
§10.88Nosne tibi fluxas Phrygiae res vertere fundo
Are we trying to overturn from the bottom the tottering affairs of Phrygia for you— we?
§10.89conamur, nos, an miseros qui Troas Achivis
Or he who exposed the wretched Trojans to the Achaeans?
§10.90obiecit? Quae causa fuit, consurgere in arma §10.91Europamque Asiamque et foedera solvere furto?
What was the cause for Europe and Asia to rise in arms and break treaties by a theft?
Was it under my leadership that the Dardanian adulterer stormed Sparta, or did I give him weapons or foster wars with lust?
§10.94Tum decuit metuisse tuis: nunc sera querelis §10.95haud iustis adsurgis et inrita iurgia iactas.
Then it was fitting to have feared for your people: now, too late, you rise with unjust complaints and throw useless quarrels.
§10.96Talibus orabat Iuno, cunctique fremebant §10.97caelicolae adsensu vario, ceu flamina prima §10.98cum deprensa fremunt silvis et caeca volutant §10.99murmura, venturos nautis prodentia ventos.
With such words Juno pleaded, and all the heaven-dwellers murmured with varied assent, just as when the first blasts, caught in the forests, murmur and roll blind whisperings, betraying coming winds to sailors.
§10.100Tum pater omnipotens, rerum cui prima potestas, §10.101infit; eo dicente deum domus alta silescit §10.102et tremefacta solo tellus, silet arduus aether, §10.103tum Zephyri posuere, premit placida aequora pontus: §10.104Accipite ergo animis atque haec mea figite dicta.
Then the almighty father, who has the supreme power over things, begins; as he speaks, the high home of the gods grows silent, and the earth shaken on its foundation, the high ether is silent, then the Zephyrs fell, the sea presses its peaceful waters: "Take therefore to your minds and fix these words of mine.
§10.105Quandoquidem Ausonios coniungi foedere Teucris §10.106haud licitum, nec vestra capit discordia finem: §10.107quae cuique est fortuna hodie, quam quisque secat spem, §10.108Tros Rutulusne fuat nullo discrimine habebo.
Since it is not permitted that the Ausonians be joined in treaty with the Trojans, nor does your discord find an end: whatever fortune each has today, what hope each carves out, whether he be Trojan or Rutulian, I will hold them with no distinction.
§10.109Seu fatis Italum castra obsidione tenentur §10.110sive errore malo Troiae monitisque sinistris.
Whether by the fates of the Italians the camp is held in siege, or by the evil error of Troy and sinister warnings.
Nor do I absolve the Rutulians: his own beginnings will bring toil and fortune to each.
Rex Iuppiter omnibus idem.
King Jupiter is the same to all.
§10.113Fata viam invenient. Stygii per flumina fratris, §10.114per pice torrentis atraque voragine ripas §10.115adnuit et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum.
The Fates will find a way." By the rivers of his Stygian brother, by the banks burning with pitch and black abyss, he nodded assent, and with his nod made all Olympus tremble.
§10.116Hic finis fandi.
This was the end of speaking.
Solio tum Iuppiter aureo §10.117surgit, caelicolae medium quem ad limina ducunt.
Then Jupiter rises from his golden throne, whom the heaven-dwellers escort in their midst to the threshold.
§10.118Interea Rutuli portis circum omnibus instant §10.119sternere caede viros et moenia cingere flammis.
Meanwhile the Rutulians press around all the gates to lay low men with slaughter and encircle the walls with flames.
But the legion of the Aeneadae is held besieged within the ramparts, nor is there any hope of flight.
Miseri stant turribus altis §10.122nequiquam et rara muros cinxere corona §10.123Asius Imbrasides Hicetaoniusque Thymoetes §10.124Assaracique duo et senior cum Castore Thymbris, §10.125prima acies; hos germani Sarpedonis ambo §10.126et Clarus et Thaemon Lycia comitantur ab alta.
Wretched they stand on the high towers in vain, and have ringed the walls with a thin circle: Asius, son of Imbrasus, and Thymoetes, son of Hicetaon, and the two Assaraci, and elder Thymbris with Castor, form the first line; both brothers of Sarpedon, Clarus and Thaemon, from high Lycia, accompany them.
§10.127Fert ingens toto conixus corpore saxum, §10.128haud partem exiguam montis, Lyrnesius Acmon, §10.129nec Clytio genitore minor nec fratre Menestheo.
Striving with his whole body, to carry a huge stone, no small part of a mountain, is Acmon of Lyrnesus, not inferior to his father Clytius nor his brother Menestheus.
These strive to defend with javelins, those with stones, and to hurl fire, and to fit arrows to the string.
§10.132Ipse inter medios, Veneris iustissima cura, §10.133Dardanius caput ecce puer detectus honestum, §10.134qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum, §10.135aut collo decus aut capiti; vel quale per artem §10.136inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho §10.137lucet ebur; fusos cervix cui lactea crinis §10.138accipit et molli subnectens circulus auro.
Behold, the Dardanian boy himself in their midst, the most deserved care of Venus, his noble head uncovered, shining like a gem that parts the yellow gold, an ornament for either neck or head; or like ivory that shines when artificially enclosed in boxwood or Orician terebinth; whose milky neck receives his streaming hair, and a band of soft gold binds it.
§10.139Te quoque magnanimae viderunt, Ismare, gentes §10.140volnera dirigere et calamos armare veneno, §10.141Maeonia generose domo, ubi pinguia culta §10.142exercentque viri Pactolusque inrigat auro.
You too, Ismarus, the high-minded nations saw aiming wounds and arming reeds with poison, noble of Maeonian house, where men till the rich tilled lands and Pactolus waters them with gold.
§10.143Adfuit et Mnestheus, quem pulsi pristina Turni §10.144aggere moerorum sublimem gloria tollit, §10.145et Capys: hinc nomen Campanae ducitur urbi.
Mnestheus too was there, whom yesterday's glory of having driven Turnus from the rampart of the walls raises high, and Capys, from whom the name of the Campanian city is derived.
They had joined the struggles of harsh war among themselves: Aeneas was cutting the seas at midnight.
§10.148Namque ut ab Euandro castris ingressus Etruscis §10.149regem adit et regi memorat nomenque genusque, §10.150quidve petat quidve ipse ferat, Mezentius arma §10.151quae sibi conciliet, violentaque pectora Turni §10.152edocet, humanis quae sit fiducia rebus §10.153admonet immiscetque preces: haud fit mora, Tarchon
For when, having departed from Evander and entered the Etruscan camp, he approaches the king and declares to the king both his name and race, what he seeks or what he himself brings, what arms Mezentius is securing for himself, and informs him of the violent heart of Turnus, warns him what trust is to be placed in human affairs, and mingles prayers: no delay is made, Tarchon