§6.449rursus et in veterem fato revoluta figuram.
and turned back again by fate into her ancient form.
§6.450Inter quas Phoenissa recens a volnere Dido §6.451errabat silva in magna; quam Troius heros §6.452ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras §6.453obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense §6.454aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, §6.455demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est: §6.456Infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo §6.457venerat exstinctam, ferroque extrema secutam?
Among whom Phoenician Dido, fresh from her wound, was wandering in a great forest; whom as soon as the Trojan hero stood near and recognized through the shadows, dim—just as one who at the beginning of the month either sees or thinks he has seen the moon rising through the clouds— he shed tears, and addressed her with sweet love: "Unhappy Dido, did a true message then come to me that you were dead, and had sought the end with the sword?
§6.458Funeris heu tibi causa fui? Per sidera iuro, §6.459per superos, et si qua fides tellure sub ima est, §6.460invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi.
Alas, was I the cause of death to you? I swear by the stars, by the gods above, and if there is any faith under the deepest earth, unwilling, queen, did I depart from your shore.
§6.461Sed me iussa deum, quae nunc has ire per umbras, §6.462per loca senta situ cogunt noctemque profundam, §6.463imperiis egere suis; nec credere quivi §6.464hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre dolorem.
But the commands of the gods, which now compel me to go through these shadows, through places rough with neglect and through deep night, drove me by their authority; nor could I believe that I was bringing you this so great pain by my departure.
§6.465Siste gradum, teque aspectu ne subtrahe nostro.
Stay your step, and do not withdraw yourself from our sight.
§6.466Quem fugis? Extremum fato, quod te adloquor, hoc est. §6.467Talibus Aeneas ardentem et torva tuentem §6.468lenibat dictis animum, lacrimasque ciebat.
Whom do you flee? This is the last word that fate allows me to speak to you." With such words Aeneas was trying to soothe her burning spirit and fierce look, and was calling forth tears.
§6.469Illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat, §6.470nec magis incepto voltum sermone movetur, §6.471quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes.
She, turned away, kept her eyes fixed on the ground, nor is her face moved by the begun speech any more than if she stood as hard flint or Marpesian crag.
§6.472tandem corripuit sese, atque inimica refugit §6.473in nemus umbriferum, coniunx ubi pristinus illi §6.474respondet curis aequatque Sychaeus amorem.
At last she tore herself away, and fled back hostile into the shady grove, where her former husband Sychaeus responds to her cares and matches her love.
§6.475Nec minus Aeneas, casu concussus iniquo, §6.476prosequitur lacrimis longe, et miseratur euntem.
Nonetheless Aeneas, struck by her unjust misfortune, follows her far with tears, and pities her as she goes.
§6.477Inde datum molitur iter.
From there he presses on the given way.
Iamque arva tenebant §6.478ultima, quae bello clari secreta frequentant.
And now they held the furthest fields, which, apart, those renowned in war frequent.
§6.479Hic illi occurrit Tydeus, hic inclutus armis §6.480Parthenopaeus et Adrasti pallentis imago; §6.481hic multum fleti ad superos belloque caduci §6.482Dardanidae, quos ille omnes longo ordine cernens §6.483ingemuit, Glaucumque Medontaque Thersilochumque, §6.484tris Antenoridas, Cererique sacrum Polyphoeten, §6.485Idaeumque, etiam currus, etiam arma tenentem.
Here Tydeus meets him, here Parthenopaeus, renowned in arms, and the phantom of pale Adrastus; here the Trojans much lamented among the living and fallen in war, all of whom seeing in a long line, he groaned— Glaucus and Medon and Thersilochus, the three sons of Antenor, and Polyphoetes sacred to Ceres, and Idaeus, still holding his chariot, still holding his weapons.
§6.486circumstant animae dextra laevaque frequentes; §6.487nec vidisse semel satis est; iuvat usque morari, §6.488et conferre gradum, et veniendi discere causas.
The souls surround him in crowds on the right and on the left; nor is it enough to have seen him once; it pleases them to linger long, and to keep pace, and to learn the causes of his coming.
§6.489At Danaum proceres Agamemnoniaeque phalanges §6.490ut videre virum fulgentiaque arma per umbras, §6.491ingenti trepidare metu; pars vertere terga, §6.492ceu quondam petiere rates; pars tollere vocem §6.493exiguam, inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes.
But the chieftains of the Danaans and the phalanxes of Agamemnon, as they saw the hero and his glittering arms through the shadows, trembled with huge fear; some turned their backs, just as once they sought the ships; some raised a tiny voice: the begun shout frustrates them as they gape.
§6.494Atque hic Priamiden laniatum corpore toto §6.495Deiphobum videt et lacerum crudeliter ora, §6.496ora manusque ambas, populataque tempora raptis §6.497auribus, et truncas inhonesto volnere nares.
And here he sees the son of Priam, mangled in his whole body, Deiphobus, and cruelly torn in his face— his face and both hands, and his temples ravaged by the tearing away of his ears, and his nose cut off by a shameful wound.
§6.498Vix adeo adgnovit pavitantem et dira tegentem §6.499supplicia, et notis compellat vocibus ultro: §6.500Deiphobe armipotens, genus alto a sanguine Teucri §6.501quis tam crudeles optavit sumere poenas?
Scarcely indeed did he recognize him, trembling and trying to hide his dreadful punishments, and address him first with familiar words: "Deiphobus, mighty in arms, offspring from the high blood of Teucer, who wished to take such cruel vengeance?
§6.502Cui tantum de te licuit? Mihi fama suprema §6.503nocte tulit fessum vasta te caede Pelasgum §6.504procubuisse super confusae stragis acervum.
To whom was so much allowed against you? Fame brought to me on that last night that you, tired by the vast slaughter of the Pelasgians, had fallen upon the heap of confused carnage.
Then I myself established an empty tomb on the Rhoetean shore, and three times called upon your Shades with a loud voice.
§6.507Nomen et arma locum servant; te, amice, nequivi §6.508conspicere, et patria decedens ponere terra. §6.509Ad quae Priamides:
Nihil O tibi amice relictum; §6.510omnia Deiphobo solvisti et funeris umbris.
Your name and arms preserve the place; you, my friend, I could not behold, and lay in your native soil as I departed." To which the son of Priam: "Nothing, O my friend, was left undone by you; you have paid all to Deiphobus and to the shades of his corpse.
§6.511Sed me fata mea et scelus exitiale Lacaenae §6.512his mersere malis; illa haec monumenta reliquit.
But my own fates and the deadly crime of the Laconian woman plunged me into these evils; she left these monuments of herself.
§6.513Namque ut supremam falsa inter gaudia noctem §6.514egerimus, nosti; et nimium meminisse necesse est.
For how we spent that last night amid false joys, you know; and it is necessary to remember it all too well.
§6.515Cum fatalis equus saltu super ardua venit §6.516Pergama, et armatum peditem gravis attulit alvo, §6.517illa, chorum simulans, evantes orgia circum §6.518ducebat Phrygias; flammam media ipsa tenebat §6.519ingentem, et summa Danaos ex arce vocabat.
When the fateful horse came with a leap over high Pergamus, and brought armed infantry heavy in its womb, she, feigning a dance, was leading the Phrygian women around, screaming in Bacchic rites; she herself in their midst was holding a huge torch, and was calling the Danaans from the top of the citadel.
§6.520Tum me, confectum curis somnoque gravatum, §6.521infelix habuit thalamus, pressitque iacentem §6.522dulcis et alta quies placidaeque simillima morti.
Then me, worn out by cares and weighed down by sleep, my unhappy chamber held, and sweet and deep rest, most like placid death, pressed upon me as I lay."