bound as to his sacred temples with fillets and sacred laurel, comes to meet us; he recognized his old friend Anchises.
§3.83Iungimus hospitio dextras, et tecta subimus.
We join right hands in hospitality, and enter his house.
§3.84Templa dei saxo venerabar structa vetusto: §3.85Da propriam, Thymbraee, domum; da moenia fessis §3.86et genus et mansuram urbem; serva altera Troiae §3.87Pergama, reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli.
I was worshiping the temple of the god built of ancient stone: "Grant us a home of our own, O god of Thymbra; grant walls to the weary, and a race, and a lasting city; save this second Citadel of Troy, the remnant left by the Greeks and merciless Achilles.
§3.88Quem sequimur? Quove ire iubes? Ubi ponere sedes?
Whom do we follow? Or whither do you order us to go? Where to set up our home?
§3.89Da, pater, augurium, atque animis inlabere nostris. §3.90Vix ea fatus eram: tremere omnia visa repente, §3.91liminaque laurusque dei, totusque moveri §3.92mons circum, et mugire adytis cortina reclusis.
Grant, father, an omen, and glide into our minds." Hardly had I spoken these words, when suddenly everything seemed to tremble, both the threshold and the laurel of the god, and the whole mountain around was moved, and the tripod groaned within the opened shrine.
§3.93Submissi petimus terram, et vox fertur ad auris: §3.94Dardanidae duri, quae vos a stirpe parentum §3.95prima tulit tellus, eadem vos ubere laeto §3.96accipiet reduces.
Humbled, we seek the ground, and a voice is borne to our ears: "O hardy sons of Dardanus, the same land which first bore you from the stock of your parents, shall welcome you back with joyful bosom on your return.
Antiquam exquirite matrem: §3.97hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, §3.98et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis. §3.99Haec Phoebus; mixtoque ingens exorta tumultu §3.100laetitia, et cuncti quae sint ea moenia quaerunt, §3.101quo Phoebus vocet errantis iubeatque reverti?
Seek out your ancient mother: here the house of Aeneas shall rule over all shores, and his children's children, and those who shall be born from them." Thus Phoebus spoke; and a great joy arose, mixed with confused tumult, and all ask what those walls may be, whither Phoebus calls the wanderers and orders them to return.
§3.102Tum genitor, veterum volvens monumenta virorum, §3.103Audite, O proceres
ait
et spes discite vestras: §3.104Creta Iovis magni medio iacet insula ponto; §3.105mons Idaeus ubi, et gentis cunabula nostrae.
Then my father, turning over the records of ancient men, said: "Hear, O leaders, and learn your hopes: Creta, the island of great Jupiter, lies in the midst of the sea, where is Mount Ida, and the cradle of our race.
§3.106Centum urbes habitant magnas, uberrima regna; §3.107maximus unde pater, si rite audita recordor, §3.108Teucrus Rhoeteas primum est advectus in oras, §3.109optavitque locum regno.
They inhabit a hundred great cities, most fertile realms, whence our greatest father Teucer, if I rightly recall what was heard, first arrived at the Rhoetean shores, and chose a place for his kingdom.
Nondum Ilium et arces §3.110Pergameae steterant; habitabant vallibus imis.
Not yet had Ilium and the towers of Pergamum stood; they dwelt in the lowest valleys.
§3.111hinc mater cultrix Cybeli Corybantiaque aera §3.112Idaeumque nemus; hinc fida silentia sacris, §3.113et iuncti currum dominae subiere leones.
Hence came the Mother-goddess, dweller on Cybele, and the Corybantian cymbals, and the Idaean grove; hence came the faithful silence for her mysteries, and the yoked lions that submitted to the chariot of their mistress.
§3.114Ergo agite, et, divom ducunt qua iussa, sequamur; §3.115placemus ventos et Gnosia regna petamus.
Come then, and where the commands of the gods lead, let us follow, let us appease the winds and seek the Gnossian realms.
§3.116Nec longo distant cursu; modo Iuppiter adsit, §3.117tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris. §3.118Sic fatus, meritos aris mactavit honores, §3.119taurum Neptuno, taurum tibi, pulcher Apollo §3.120nigram Hiemi pecudem, Zephyris felicibus albam.
Nor are they far distant by a long course; only let Jupiter be present, the third light will place our fleet on the Cretan shores." Having thus spoken, he sacrificed the deserved offerings on the altars, a bull to Neptune, a bull to thee, O beautiful Apollo, a black sheep to the Storm, and a white one to the favorable West Winds.
§3.121Fama volat pulsum regnis cessisse paternis §3.122Idomenea ducem, desertaque litora Cretae §3.123hoste vacare domos, sedesque adstare relictas.
A rumor flies that the leader Idomeneus, driven from his father's realm, has departed, and that the shores of Crete are deserted, the homes free from enemies, and the abandoned dwellings stand ready.
§3.124Linquimus Ortygiae portus, pelagoque volamus, §3.125bacchatamque iugis Naxon viridemque Donysam, §3.126Olearon, niveamque Paron, sparsasque per aequor §3.127Cycladas, et crebris legimus freta consita terris.
We leave the harbors of Ortygia and fly over the sea, and we coast past Naxos with its mountaintops celebrated in Bacchic revels, and green Donysa, Olearos, and snowy Paros, and the Cyclades scattered through the sea, and we skim the straits sown with frequent lands.
§3.128Nauticus exoritur vario certamine clamor; §3.129hortantur socii:
Cretam proavosque petamus! §3.130Prosequitur surgens a puppi ventus euntis §3.131et tandem antiquis Curetum adlabimur oris.
A sailor's shout arises with varied rivalry, the companions encourage one another: "Let us seek Crete and our ancestors!" A wind rising from the stern follows us as we go, and at last we glide to the ancient shores of the Curetes.
§3.132Ergo avidus muros optatae molior urbis, §3.133Pergameamque voco, et laetam cognomine gentem §3.134hortor amare focos arcemque attollere tectis.
Therefore eagerly I construct the walls of the longed-for city, and call it Pergamea, and I exhort my people, who rejoice in the name, to love their hearths and to raise a citadel over their dwellings.
§3.135Iamque fere sicco subductae litore puppes; §3.136conubiis arvisque novis operata iuventus; §3.137iura domosque dabam: subito cum tabida membris, §3.138corrupto caeli tractu, miserandaque venit §3.139arboribusque satisque lues et letifer annus.
And now the ships were almost hauled up on the dry shore; the youth were busy with new marriages and tillings, I was giving laws and homes: when suddenly, from a corrupted tract of the sky, there came a wasting and pitiable plague upon our limbs, and upon the trees and crops, and a year of death.
§3.140Linquebant dulcis animas, aut aegra trahebant §3.141corpora; tum sterilis exurere Sirius agros; §3.142arebant herbae, et victum seges aegra negabat.
They left their sweet souls, or dragged their sick bodies; then Sirius burned the barren fields; the grass withered, and the sick crop denied food.
§3.143Rursus ad oraclum Ortygiae Phoebumque remenso §3.144hortatur pater ire mari, veniamque precari: §3.145quam fessis finem rebus ferat; unde laborum §3.146temptare auxilium iubeat; quo vertere cursus.
Again my father exhorts us to go to the oracle of Ortygia and to Phoebus, measuring back the sea, and to entreat his favor: what end he may bring to our weary affairs; whence he may order us to seek help for our labors; whither to turn our course.
§3.147Nox erat, et terris animalia somnus habebat: §3.148effigies sacrae divom Phrygiique Penates, §3.149quos mecum a Troia mediisque ex ignibus urbis §3.150extuleram, visi ante oculos adstare iacentis §3.151in somnis, multo manifesti lumine, qua se §3.152plena per insertas fundebat luna fenestras; §3.153tum sic adfari et curas his demere dictis: §3.154Quod tibi delato Ortygiam dicturus Apollo est, §3.155hic canit, et tua nos en ultro ad limina mittit.
It was night, and sleep held all living creatures on earth: the sacred images of the gods and the Phrygian Penates, whom I had carried with me from Troy and from the midst of the burning city, seemed to stand before my eyes as I lay in sleep, clear in the abundant light, where the full moon poured itself through the inserted windows, then they seemed to speak thus and remove my cares with these words: "What Apollo is going to tell you when you have gone back to Ortygia, he declares here, and behold, he sends us of his own accord to your threshold.
§3.156Nos te, Dardania incensa, tuaque arma secuti, §3.157nos tumidum sub te permensi classibus aequor, §3.158idem venturos tollemus in astra nepotes,
We followed you and your arms when Dardania was burned, we have traversed the swelling sea in fleets under your leadership, and we, the same, will raise your future descendants to the stars,