§1000vultuque torvo.
with a grim face.
Pyrrhe, quid cessas? age
Pyrrhus, why do you hesitate?
§1001recludo ferro pectus et Achillis tui §1002coniunge soceros, perge, mactator senum, §1003et hic decet te sanguis: abreptam trabe.
Come, I open my breast to the sword, and of your Achilles join the parents-in-law; proceed, slaughterer of old men, this blood also becomes you: [kill me] snatched from the ship.
defile the gods above with this deadly slaughter, defile the spirits of the dead—what shall I pray for you?
I pray for seas worthy of these sacred rites: let this happen to the fleet, to the entire Pelasgian [fleet], let this happen to the thousand ships.
§1008meae precabor, cum vehar, quicquid rati.
I will pray for my own ship, when I am carried, whatever [I pray] for any ship.
§1009Dulce maerenti populus dolentium, §1010dulce lamentis resonare gentes; §1011lenius luctus lacrimaeque mordent, §1012turba quas fletu similis frequentat.
Sweet to one who mourns is a crowd of those grieving, sweet for nations to resound with lamentations; more gently do grief and tears bite, which a similar crowd attends with weeping.
§1013semper a semper dolor est malignus: §1014gaudet in multos sua fata mitti §1015seque non solum placuisse poenae.
Always, ah always, pain is malicious: it rejoices that its own fate is sent upon many, and that itself alone has not pleased the punishment.
The lot which all suffer to bear, no one refuses.
§1019a1018bTolle felices: miseram, licet sit, §1018a1019bnemo se credet; removete multo §1020divites auro, removete centum §1021* rura qui scindunt opulenta bubus: §1022pauperi surgent animi iacentes— §1023est miser nemo nisi comparatus.
Take away the happy: although one may be wretched, no one will believe himself so; remove those rich with much gold, remove those who cleave * wealthy countrysides with a hundred oxen: for the poor man his cast-down spirits will rise— no one is wretched except by comparison.
§1024dulce in immensis posito ruinis, §1025nemiuem laetos habuisse vultus: §1026ille deplorat queriturque fatum, §1027qui secans fluctum rate singulari §1028nudus in portus cecidit petitos; §1029aequior casum tulit et procellas, §1030mille qui ponto pariter carinas §1031obrui vidit tabulaque latus §1032naufraga, terris mare dum coactis §1033fluctibus Coras prohibet, revertit.
Sweet to one placed in immense ruins is that no one has happy faces: that man deplores and complains of his fate, who cleaving the wave with a single ship has fallen naked into the sought-for ports; more calmly has he borne his fall and the tempests, who has seen a thousand keels on the sea likewise overwhelmed, and returning with his side protected by a shipwrecked plank, while the sea prohibits the lands with gathered waves, returns.
§1034questus est Hellen cecidisse Phrixus, §1035cum gregis ductor radiante villo §1036aureo fratrem simul ac sororem §1037sustulit tergo medioque iactum §1038fecit in ponto; tenuit querelas §1039et vir et Pyrrha, mare cum viderent, §1040et nihil praeter mare cum viderent §1041unici terris homines relicti.
Phrixus lamented that Helle had fallen, when the leader of the flock with radiant golden fleece lifted at once the brother and the sister on his back, and made her cast into the middle of the sea; held back their complaints did both the man and Pyrrha, when they saw the sea, and when they saw nothing besides the sea, the only humans left on the lands.
§1042Solvet hunc 'questum lacrimasque nostras §1043sparget huc illuc agitata classis, §1044cum tuba iussi dare vela nautae §1045et simul ventis properante remo §1046prenderint altum fugietque litus, §1047quis status mentis miseris, ubi omnis §1048terra decrescet pelagusque crescet, §1049celsa cum longe latitabit Ide?
The tossed fleet will release this lament and scatter our tears hither and thither, when the sailors, ordered by the trumpet to give sails, and at the same time with the winds and a hastening oar have taken the deep and the shore flees, what will be the state of mind for the wretched, when all land decreases and the sea increases, when high Ida lies hidden far away?
§1050tum puer matri genetrixque nato, §1051Troia qua flagret regione, monstrans §1052dicet et longe digito notabit: §1053Ilium est illic, ubi fumus alte §1054serpit in caelum nebulaeque turpes. ' §1055Troes hoc signo patriam videbunt.
Then the boy to his mother, and the mother to her son, pointing out in which region Troy burns, will speak and mark far off with a finger: "Ilium is there, where smoke high creeps into the sky and foul mists [are]." By this sign the Trojans will see their homeland.
§1056O dura fata, saeva miseranda horrida!
O harsh fates, savage, pitiable, horrid!
what so fierce, so sad a crime in twice five years has Mars seen?
§1059tuosne potius, an tuos luctus, anus?
What shall I lament first in relating, yours [Andromache] rather, or yours, old woman [Hecuba]?
§1060Quoscumque luctus fleveris, flebis meos: §1061sua quemque tantum, me omnium clades premit; §1062mihi cuncta pereunt: quisquis est Hecubae est miser.
Whatever laments you weep for, you will weep for mine: only his own presses each, the disaster of all presses me; all things perish for me: whoever is wretched is Hecuba's.
The virgin has been sacrificed, the boy cast from the walls; but each bore death with a noble mind.
§1065Expone seriem caedis, et duplex nefas §1066persequere: gaudet magnus aerumnas dolor §1067tractare totas, ede et enarra omnia.
Relate the sequence of the slaughter, and the double crime pursue: great grief rejoices to treat of its entire miseries; speak and tell all.
§1068Est una magna turris e Troia super, §1069assueta Priamo, cuius e fastigio §1070summisque pinnis arbiter belli sedens §1071regebat acies, turre in hac blando sinu §1072fovens nepotem, cum metu versos gravi §1073Danaos fugaret Hector et ferro et face, §1074paterna puero bella monstrabat senex
There is one great tower left from Troy, familiar to Priam, from whose summit and highest battlements, sitting as the arbiter of war, he ruled the battle lines; in this tower, in his gentle bosom cherishing his grandson, when Hector with sword and torch routed the Danai turned by heavy fear, the old man showed the father's battles to the boy.
§1075haec nota quondam turris et muri decus, §1076nunc saeva «cautes, undique adfusa dueum §1077plebisque turba cingitur; totum coit §1078ratibus relictis vulgus, his collis procul §1079aciem patenti liberam praebet loco, §1080his alta rupes, cuius in cacumine §1081erecta summos turba libravit pedes.
This tower, once famous and the ornament of the wall, is now a savage cliff, surrounded by a crowd of leaders and commoners poured around; the whole multitude gathers, having left their ships; for some, a distant hill offers a free view in an open place, for others, a high rock, on whose peak the standing crowd balanced on the tips of their feet.
This one a pine tree, that one a laurel, another a beech carries, and the whole forest trembles with the suspended people.
§1084extrema montis ille praerupti petit, §1085semusta at ille tecta vel saxum imminens §1086muri cadentis pressit, atque aliquis (nefas) §1087tumulo ferus spectator Hectoreo sedet.
That one seeks the edge of a precipitous mountain, but another pressed the half-burned roofs or the overhanging rock of the falling wall, and someone (wicked deed!) sits as a fierce spectator on Hector's tomb.
§1088per spatia late plena sublimi gradu §1089incedit Ithacus parvulum dextra trahens §1090Priami nepotem, nec gradu segni puer §1091ad alta pergit moenia, ut summa stetit
Through the widely filled spaces, with a lofty step, the Ithacan proceeds, dragging with his right hand the little grandson of Priam, nor with a slow step does the boy proceed to the high walls.