§5.716et quidquid tecum invalidum metuensque pericli est, §5.717delige, et his habeant terris sine moenia fessi: §5.718urbem appellabunt permisso nomine Acestam. §5.719Talibus incensus dictis senioris amici, §5.720tum vero in curas animo diducitur omnes. §5.721Et nox atra polum bigis subvecta tenebat: §5.722visa dehinc caelo facies delapsa parentis §5.723Anchisae subito tales effundere voces: §5.724Nate, mihi vita quondam, dum vita manebat, §5.725care magis, nate, Iliacis exercite fatis, §5.726imperio Iovis huc venio, qui classibus ignem §5.727depulit, et caelo tandem miseratus ab alto est. §5.728Consiliis pare, quae nunc pulcherrima Nautes §5.729dat senior; lectos iuvenes, fortissima corda, §5.730defer in Italiam; gens dura atque aspera cultu §5.731debellanda tibi Latio est.
select whatever is weak with you and fearful of danger, let the weary have their walls in these lands: shall call the city Acesta by the permitted name. by such words of his elderly friend, indeed Aeneas is drawn in his mind into all cares. black night, carried up in her two-horse chariot, held the sky; the face of his father Anchises, having glided down from heaven, seemed to pour forth such words:"O son, once more dear to me than life, while life remained, son, exercised by Trojan fates, come here by the command of Jupiter, who drove away the fire from the fleet has at last pitied you from high heaven. the counsels which elder Nautes now gives, are most excellent; carry chosen youths, the bravest hearts, Italy; a hardy people and rugged in life be subdued by you in Latium.
Yet first the underworld homes of Dis, and through deep Avernus, o son, my meetings.
Non me impia namque §5.734Tartara habent, tristes umbrae, sed amoena piorum §5.735concilia Elysiumque colo.
For impious and the sad shades do not hold me, but I inhabit pleasant assemblies of the pious and Elysium.
Huc casta Sibylla §5.736nigrarum multo pecudum te sanguine ducet: §5.737tum genus omne tuum, et quae dentur moenia, disces. §5.738Iamque vale: torquet medios Nox humida cursus, §5.739et me saevus equis Oriens adflavit anhelis. §5.740Dixerat, et tenuis fugit, ceu fumus, in auras. §5.741Aeneas,
Quo deinde ruis, quo proripis?
inquit, §5.742Quem fugis, aut quis te nostris complexibus arcet? §5.743Haec memorans cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignes, §5.744Pergameumque Larem et canae penetralia Vestae §5.745farre pio et plena supplex veneratur acerra. §5.746Extemplo socios primumque arcessit Acesten, §5.747et Iovis imperium et cari praecepta parentis §5.748edocet, et quae nunc animo sententia constet. §5.749Haud mora consiliis, nec iussa recusat Acestes. §5.750Transcribunt urbi matres, populumque volentem §5.751deponunt, animos nil magnae laudis egentes. §5.752Ipsi transtra novant, flammisque ambesa reponunt §5.753robora navigiis, aptant remosque rudentesque, §5.754exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus. §5.755Interea Aeneas urbem designat aratro §5.756sortiturque domos; hoc Ilium et haec loca Troiam §5.757esse iubet.
Hither the chaste Sibyl lead you with much blood of black cattle: you shall learn all your lineage, and what walls are given to you. now farewell: damp Night turns her middle course, the cruel Dawn has breathed upon me with his panting horses." had spoken, and fled like thin smoke into the gentle air. says: "Whither do you rush now, whither do you fling yourself? do you flee, or who keeps you from our embraces?" these things, he awakens the ashes and dormant fires, suppliant worships the Trojan Lar and the shrine of hoary Vesta holy meal and a full censer. he summons his companions and first Acestes,§ teaches them the command of Jupiter and the precepts of his dear parent, what decision now stands firm in his mind. is no delay for their counsels, nor does Acestes refuse the commands. enroll the mothers for the city, and set down the willing people, having no need of great glory. themselves renew the benches, and replace the timbers of the ships by the flames, and fit the oars and ropes, in number, but a vivid courage for war. Aeneas marks out the city with a plow assigns the homes by lot; he orders this to be Ilium and these places be Troy.
Gaudet regno Troianus Acestes, §5.758indicitque forum et patribus dat iura vocatis. §5.759Tum vicina astris, Erycino in vertice sedes §5.760fundatur Veneri Idaliae, tumuloque sacerdos §5.761ac lucus late sacer additur Anchiseo. §5.762Iamque dies epulata novem gens omnis, et aris §5.763factus honos: placidi straverunt aequora venti, §5.764creber et adspirans rursus vocat Auster in altum. §5.765Exoritur procurva ingens per litora fletus; §5.766complexi inter se noctemque diemque morantur. §5.767Ipsae iam matres, ipsi, quibus aspera quondam §5.768visa maris facies et non tolerabile nomen, §5.769ire volunt, omnemque fugae perferre laborem. §5.770Quos bonus Aeneas dictis solatur amicis, §5.771et consanguineo lacrimans commendat Acestae. §5.772Tris Eryci vitulos et Tempestatibus agnam §5.773caedere deinde iubet, solvique ex ordine funem. §5.774Ipse, caput tonsae foliis evinctus olivae, §5.775stans procul in prora pateram tenet, extaque salsos §5.776proiicit in fluctus ac vina liquentia fundit. §5.777Prosequitur surgens a puppi ventus euntes. §5.778Certatim socii feriunt mare et aequora verrunt. §5.779At Venus interea Neptunum exercita curis §5.780adloquitur, talesque effundit pectore questus: §5.781Iunonis gravis ira nec exsaturabile pectus §5.782cogunt me, Neptune, preces descendere in omnes; §5.783quam nec longa dies, pietas nec mitigat ulla, §5.784nec Iovis imperio fatisque infracta quiescit. §5.785Non media de gente Phrygum exedisse nefandis §5.786urbem odiis satis est, nec poenam traxe per omnem: §5.787reliquias Troiae, cineres atque ossa peremptae §5.788insequitur: causas tanti sciat illa furoris. §5.789Ipse mihi nuper Libycis tu testis in undis §5.790quam molem subito excierit: maria omnia caelo §5.791miscuit, Aeoliis nequiquam freta procellis, §5.792in regnis hoc ausa tuis.
Trojan Acestes rejoices in his kingdom, declares a forum and gives laws to the summoned elders., near to the stars, on the summit of Eryx, a temple founded for Idalian Venus, and a priest and a grove, far and wide, are added to the tomb of Anchises. now for nine days all the people had feasted, and to the altars was paid: gentle winds smoothed the seas, the frequent blowing South wind calls them again into the deep. vast weeping arises along the curved shores; each other, they linger through both night and day. the mothers themselves, and those very men to whom formerly face of the sea seemed harsh and its name intolerable, to go, and to endure all the labor of the journey. good Aeneas consoles with friendly words, weeping commends them to his kinsman Acestes. he orders three calves to be sacrificed to Eryx and a lamb to the Tempests, the rope to be untied in order. himself, his head bound with leaves of trimmed olive, apart on the prow holds a goblet, and casts the entrails the salty waves and pours liquid wine. wind rising from the stern pursues them as they go. the companions strike the sea and sweep the waters. Venus meanwhile, exercised with cares, addresses, and pours forth such complaints from her breast:"The heavy wrath and insatiable breast of Juno me, Neptune, to descend to all entreaties; neither length of time nor any piety softens, does it rest, unsubdued by the command of Jupiter and the fates. is not enough for her to have devoured the city from the midst of the Phrygian race her unspeakable hatred, nor to have dragged it through every punishment: pursues the remnants of Troy, the ashes and bones of the destroyed; her know the causes of such great madness. yourself are my witness recently on the Libyan waters a mass she suddenly raised: she mixed all the seas with the sky, in vain to the Aeolian storms, this in your own realms."