§3.478Et tamen hanc pelago praeterlabare necesse est; §3.479Ausoniae pars illa procul, quam pandit Apollo.
And yet it is necessary that you glide past this land on the sea; That part of Ausonia is far away, which Apollo reveals.
§3.480Vade
ait
O felix nati pietate.
"Go," he says, "O happy in the piety of your son!
Quid ultra §3.481provehor, et fando surgentis demoror austros? §3.482Nec minus Andromache digressu maesta supremo §3.483fert picturatas auri subtemine vestes §3.484et Phrygiam Ascanio chlamydem (nec cedit honore), §3.485textilibusque onerat donis, ac talia fatur: §3.486Accipe et haec, manuum tibi quae monumenta mearum §3.487sint, puer, et longum Andromachae testentur amorem, §3.488coniugis Hectoreae.
Why further do I proceed, and by speaking delay the rising south winds?" No less does Andromache, sad at the final departure, bring garments figured with thread of gold, and a Phrygian cloak for Ascanius (nor does she yield in doing honor), and loads him with woven gifts, and speaks such words: "Receive these also, which may be to you memorials of my hands, my boy, and may bear witness to the long-lasting love of Andromache, Hector's wife.
Cape dona extrema tuorum, §3.489O mihi sola mei super Astyanactis imago:
Take the last gifts of your kin, O you who alone remain to me as the image of my Astyanax!
§3.490sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat; §3.491et nunc aequali tecum pubesceret aevo. §3.492Hos ego digrediens lacrimis adfabar obortis: §3.493Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta §3.494iam sua; nos alia ex aliis in fata vocamur.
Just so did he bear his eyes, so his hands, so his features; and now he would be growing into youth with you, of equal age." Departing, I addressed them with welling tears: "Live happy, you whose own fortune is already accomplished; we are called from one fate to another.
§3.495Vobis parta quies; nullum maris aequor arandum, §3.496arva neque Ausoniae semper cedentia retro §3.497quaerenda.
For you, rest is won; no expanse of sea must be ploughed, nor must the fields of Ausonia, ever receding, be sought.
Effigiem Xanthi Troiamque videtis §3.498quam vestrae fecere manus, melioribus, opto, §3.499auspiciis, et quae fuerit minus obvia Graiis.
You see an image of Xanthus, and a Troy which your own hands have made, under better, I pray, auspices, and which may be less exposed to Greeks.
§3.500Si quando Thybrim vicinaque Thybridis arva §3.501intraro, gentique meae data moenia cernam, §3.502cognatas urbes olim populosque propinquos, §3.503Epiro, Hesperia, quibus idem Dardanus auctor §3.504atque idem casus, unam faciemus utramque §3.505Troiam animis; maneat nostros ea cura nepotes.
If ever I shall have entered the Tiber and the fields near the Tiber, and shall see the walls granted to my people, we shall one day make kindred cities and neighboring peoples, in Epirus and in Hesperia, which have the same founder Dardanus and the same fortune, we shall make each of the two Troy in spirit; let that care remain for our descendants.
We are carried forward on the sea next to the neighboring Ceraunian cliffs, whence is the way to Italy and the shortest course across the waves.
§3.508Sol ruit interea et montes umbrantur opaci; §3.509sternimur optatae gremio telluris ad undam, §3.510sortiti remos, passimque in litore sicco §3.511corpora curamus; fessos sopor inrigat artus.
Meanwhile the sun hastens down and the dark mountains are shaded; we stretch ourselves by the water in the bosom of the longed-for land, having distributed the oars by lot, and scattered here and there on the dry shore we refresh our bodies; sleep bedews our weary limbs.
§3.512Necdum orbem medium Nox horis acta subibat: §3.513haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus et omnis §3.514explorat ventos, atque auribus aera captat; §3.515sidera cuncta notat tacito labentia caelo, §3.516Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones, §3.517armatumque auro circumspicit Oriona.
And not yet was Night, driven by the hours, entering her mid-course, when active Palinurus rises from his couch and explores all the winds, and catches the air with his ears; he marks all the stars sliding in the silent sky, Arcturus and the rainy Hyades, and the twin Bears, and looks around at Orion armed with gold.
§3.518Postquam cuncta videt caelo constare sereno, §3.519dat clarum e puppi signum; nos castra movemus, §3.520temptamusque viam et velorum pandimus alas.
When he sees that all is clear in the calm sky, he gives a clear signal from the stern; we move our camp, and essay our way, and spread the wings of our sails.
§3.521Iamque rubescebat stellis Aurora fugatis, §3.522cum procul obscuros collis humilemque videmus §3.523Italiam.
And now Aurora was reddening, the stars being put to flight, when far off we see the dim hills and low-lying Italy.
Italiam
primus conclamat Achates, §3.524Italiam
laeto socii clamore salutant.
"Italy!" Achates shouts first, "Italy!" the comrades greet with joyful shout.
§3.525Tum pater Anchises magnum cratera corona §3.526induit, implevitque mero, divosque vocavit §3.527stans celsa in puppi: §3.528Di maris et terrae tempestatumque potentes, §3.529ferte viam vento facilem et spirate secundi. §3.530Crebrescunt optatae aurae portusque patescit §3.531iam propior, templumque adparet in arce Minervae.
Then father Anchises crowned a great bowl with a garland, and filled it with unmixed wine, and called upon the gods, standing on the lofty stern: "O gods, rulers of sea and land and tempests, bring an easy path with the wind and blow favorably!" The longed-for breezes freshen, and the harbor opens now closer, and a temple of Minerva appears on the height.
§3.532Vela legunt socii et proras ad litora torquent.
The comrades furl the sails and turn the prows to the shores.
§3.533Portus ab Euroo fluctu curvatus in arcum, §3.534obiectae salsa spumant aspargine cautes; §3.535ipse latet; gemino demittunt bracchia muro §3.536turriti scopuli, refugitque ab litore templum.
The harbor is curved into a bow by the East wind's wave, the opposing cliffs foam with salty spray; the harbor itself is hidden; towered rocks let down their arms in a double wall, and the temple recedes from the shore.
Here I saw on the grass, as the first omen, four horses grazing the plain far and wide, of snowy whiteness.
§3.539Et pater Anchises:
Bellum, O terra hospita, portas §3.540bello armantur equi, bellum haec armenta minantur.
And father Anchises: "War, O hospitable land, you bring; for war are horses armed, war do these herds threaten.
§3.541Sed tamen idem olim curru succedere sueti §3.542quadrupedes, et frena iugo concordia ferre; §3.543spes et pacis
ait.
But yet, these same beasts have been accustomed in time past to submit to the chariot, and to bear harmonious reins under the yoke; there is hope of peace also," he says.
Tum numina sancta precamur §3.544Palladis armisonae, quae prima accepit ovantis, §3.545et capita ante aras Phrygio velamur amictu; §3.546praeceptisque Heleni, dederat quae maxima, rite §3.547Iunoni Argivae iussos adolemus honores.
Then we pray to the holy divinities of Pallas, clashing in arms, who first received us in our triumph, and we veil our heads before the altars with Phrygian mantles; and according to the precepts of Helenus, which he had given as most important, we duly burn the commanded offerings to Argive Juno.
§3.548Haud mora, continuo perfectis ordine votis, §3.549cornua velatarum obvertimus antemarum, §3.550Graiugenumque domos suspectaque linquimus arva.
Without delay, immediately, our vows being performed in order, we turn the horns of our sail-clad yardarms, and leave the homes of the Greek-born and the suspected fields.
§3.551Hinc sinus Herculei (si vera est fama) Tarenti §3.552cernitur; attollit se diva Lacinia contra, §3.553Caulonisque arces et navifragum Scylaceum.
From here is seen the bay of Tarentum, sacred to Hercules (if rumor is true); opposite rises the Lacinian goddess, and the heights of Caulon and shipwrecking Scylaceum.
§3.554Tum procul e fluctu Trinacria cernitur Aetna, §3.555et gemitum ingentem pelagi pulsataque saxa §3.556audimus longe fractasque ad litora voces, §3.557exsultantque vada, atque aestu miscentur harenae.
Then far off from the wave is seen Trinacrian Etna, and we hear from afar the deep groaning of the sea and the battered rocks, and the broken sounds on the shore; and the shallows leap, and the sands are mixed with the tide.
§3.558Et pater Anchises:
Nimirum haec illa Charybdis:
And father Anchises: "Doubtless this is that Charybdis!"