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Panditur interea domus omnipotentis Olympi,

conciliumque vocat divom pater atque hominum rex

sideream in sedem, terras unde arduus omnis

castraque Dardanidum adspectat populosque Latinos.

5Considunt tectis bipatentibus, incipit ipse:

"Caelicolae magni, quianam sententia vobis

versa retro tantumque animis certatis iniquis?

Abnueram bello Italiam concurrere Teucris.

Quae contra vetitum discordia, quis metus aut hos

10aut hos arma sequi ferrumque lacessere suasit?

Adveniet iustum pugnae, ne arcessite, tempus,

cum fera Karthago Romanis arcibus olim

exitium magnum atque Alpes inmittet apertas:

tum certare odiis, tum res rapuisse licebit.

15Nunc sinite et placitum laeti conponite foedus."

Iuppiter haec paucis; at non Venus aurea contra

pauca refert:

"O pater, o | hominum rerumque aeterna potestas!

- namque aliud quid sit quod iam inplorare queamus? -

20Cernis ut insultent Rutuli Turnusque feratur

per medios insignis equis, tumidusque secundo

Marte ruat. Non clausa tegunt iam moenia Teucros,

quin intra portas atque ipsis proelia miscent

aggeribus murorum, et inundant sanguine fossae.

25Aeneas ignarus abest. Numquamne levari

obsidione sines? Muris iterum inminet hostis

nascentis Troiae nec non exercitus alter;

atque iterum in Teucros Aetolis surget ab Arpis

Tydides. Equidem credo, mea volnera restant

30et tua progenies mortalia demoror arma.

Si sine pace tua atque invito numine Troes

Italiam petiere, luant peccata neque illos

iuveris auxilio; sin tot responsa secuti,

quae Superi Manesque dabant, cur nunc tua quisquam

35vertere iussa potest aut cur nova condere fata?

Quid repetam exustas Erycino in litore classes,

quid tempestatum regem ventosque furentis

Aeolia excitos aut actam nubibus Irim?

Nunc etiam Manis - haec intemptata manebat

40sors rerum - movet, et superis inmissa repente

Allecto, medias Italum bacchata per urbes.

Nil super imperio moveor: speravimus ista,

dum fortuna fuit; vincant quos vincere mavis.

Si nulla est regio, Teucris quam det tua coniunx

45dura, per eversae, genitor, fumantia Troiae

excidia obtestor, liceat dimittere ab armis

incolumem Ascanium, liceat superesse nepotem.

Aeneas sane ignotis iactetur in undis

et quamcumque viam dederit Fortuna, sequatur:

50hunc tegere et dirae valeam subducere pugnae.

Est Amathus, est celsa mihi Paphos atque Cythera

Idaliaeque domus: positis inglorius armis

exigat hic aevom. Magna dicione iubeto

Karthago premat Ausoniam: nihil urbibus inde

55obstabit Tyriis. Quid pestem evadere belli

iuvit et Argolicos medium fugisse per ignis

totque maris vastaeque exhausta pericula terrae,

dum Latium Teucri recidivaque Pergama quaerunt?

Non satius cineres patriae insedisse supremos

60atque solum, quo Troia fuit? Xanthum et Simoënta

redde, oro, miseris iterumque revolvere casus

da, pater, Iliacos Teucris." Tum regia Iuno

acta furore gravi: "Quid me alta silentia cogis

rumpere et obductum verbis vulgare dolorem?

65Aenean hominum quisquam divomque subegit

bella sequi aut hostem regi se inferre Latino?

Italiam petiit fatis auctoribus, esto,

Cassandrae inpulsus furiis: num linquere castra

hortati sumus aut vitam committere ventis,

70num puero summam belli, num credere muros,

Tyrrhenumque fidem aut gentis agitare quietas?

Quis deus in fraudem, quae dura potentia nostri

egit? Ubi hic Iuno demissave nubibus Iris?

Indignum est Italos Troiam circumdare flammis

75nascentem et patria Turnum consistere terra,

cui Pilumnus avus, cui diva Venilia mater:

quid face Troianos atra vim ferre Latinis,

arva aliena iugo premere atque avertere praedas,

quid soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,

80pacem orare manu, praefigere puppibus arma?

Tu potes Aenean manibus subducere Graium

proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis,

et potes in totidem classes convertere Nymphas:

nos aliquid Rutulos contra iuvisse nefandum est?

85Aeneas ignarus abest: ignarus et absit.

Est Paphos Idaliumque tibi, sunt alta Cythera:

quid gravidam bellis urbem et corda aspera temptas?

Nosne tibi fluxas Phrygiae res vertere fundo

conamur, nos, an miseros qui Troas Achivis

90obiecit? Quae causa fuit, consurgere in arma

Europamque Asiamque et foedera solvere furto?

Me duce Dardanius Spartam expugnavit adulter,

aut ego tela dedi fovique Cupidine bella?

Tum decuit metuisse tuis: nunc sera querellis

95haud iustis adsurgis et inrita iurgia iactas."

Talibus orabat Iuno, cunctique fremebant

caelicolae adsensu vario, ceu flamina prima

cum deprensa fremunt silvis et caeca volutant

murmura, venturos nautis prodentia ventos.

100Tum pater omnipotens, rerum cui summa potestas,

infit - eo dicente deum domus alta silescit

et tremefacta solo tellus, silet arduus aether,

tum zephyri posuere, premit placida aequora pontus -:

"Accipite ergo animis atque haec mea figite dicta.

105Quandoquidem Ausonios coniungi foedere Teucris

haud licitum, nec vestra capit discordia finem:

quae cuique est fortuna hodie, quam quisque secat spem,

Tros Rutulusne fuat, nullo discrimine habebo,

seu fatis Italum castra obsidione tenentur,

110sive errore malo Troiae monitisque sinistris.

Nec Rutulos solvo: sua cuique exorsa laborem

fortunamque ferent. Rex Iuppiter omnibus idem.

Fata viam invenient." Stygii per flumina fratris,

per pice torrentis atraque voragine ripas

115adnuit et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum.

Hic finis fandi. Solio tum Iuppiter aureo

surgit, caelicolae medium quem ad limina ducunt.

Interea Rutuli portis circum omnibus instant

sternere caede viros et moenia cingere flammis.

120At legio Aeneadum vallis obsessa tenetur,

nec spes ulla fugae. Miseri stant turribus altis

nequiquam, et rara muros cinxere corona:

Asius Imbrasides Hicetaoniusque Thymoetes

Assaracique duo et senior cum Castore Thybris

125prima acies; hos germani Sarpedonis ambo

et Clarus et Thaemon Lycia comitantur ab alta.

Fert ingens toto conixus corpore saxum,

haud partem exiguam montis, Lyrnesius Acmon

nec Clytio genitore minor nec fratre Menestheo.

130Hi iaculis, illi certant defendere saxis

molirique ignem nervoque aptare sagittas.

Ipse inter medios Veneris iustissima cura

Dardanius caput ecce puer detectus honestum,

qualis gemma micat, fulvom quae dividit aurum,

135aut collo decus aut capiti; vel quale per artem

inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho

lucet ebur; fusos cervix cui lactea crinis

accipit et molli subnectit circulus auro.

Te quoque magnanimae viderunt, Ismare, gentes

140volnera dirigere et calamos armare veneno,

Maeonia generose domo, | ubi pinguia culta

exercentque viri Pactolusque inrigat auro.

Adfuit et Mnestheus, quem pulsi pristina Turni

aggere murorum sublimem gloria tollit,

145et Capys: hinc nomen Campanae ducitur urbi.

Illi inter sese duri certamina belli

contulerant; media Aeneas freta nocte secabat.

Namque ut ab Evandro castris ingressus Etruscis

regem adit et regi memorat nomenque genusque,

150quidve petat quidve ipse ferat, Mezentius arma

quae sibi conciliet, violentaque pectora Turni

edocet, humanis quae sit fiducia rebus

admonet inmiscetque preces: haud fit mora, Tarchon

iungit opes foedusque ferit; tum libera fatis

155classem conscendit iussis gens Lydia divom,

externo commissa duci. | Aeneia puppis

prima tenet, rostro Phrygios subiuncta leones,

inminet Ida super, profugis gratissima Teucris.

Hic magnus sedet Aeneas secumque volutat

160eventus belli varios, Pallasque sinistro

adfixus lateri iam quaerit sidera, opacae

noctis iter, iam quae passus terraque marique.

Pandite nunc Helicona, deae, cantusque movete,

quae manus interea Tuscis comitetur ab oris

165Aenean, armetque rates pelagoque vehatur.

Massicus aerata princeps secat aequora Tigri:

sub quo mille manus iuvenum, qui moenia Clusi

quique urbem liquere Cosas, quis tela sagittae

gorytique leves umeris et letifer arcus.

170Una torvus Abas: huic totum insignibus armis

agmen et aurato fulgebat Apolline puppis.

sescentos illi dederat Populonia mater

expertos belli iuvenes, ast Ilva trecentos,

insula inexhaustis Chalybum generosa metallis.

175Tertius ille hominum divomque interpres Asilas,

cui pecudum fibrae, caeli cui sidera parent

et linguae volucrum et praesagi fulminis ignes

mille rapit densos acie atque horrentibus hastis.

Hos parere iubent Alphea ab origine Pisae,

180urbs Etrusca solo. Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur,

Astur equo fidens et versicoloribus armis.

Tercentum adiciunt, mens omnibus una sequendi,

qui Caerete domo, qui sunt Minionis in arvis,

et Pyrgi veteres intempestaeque Graviscae.

185Non ego te, Ligurum ductor fortissime bello,

transierim, †Cinyra,† et paucis comitate Cupavo,

cuius olorinae surgunt de vertice pennae,

crimen, Amor, vestrum formaeque insigne paternae.

Namque ferunt luctu Cycnum Phaethontis amati,

190populeas inter frondes umbramque sororum

dum canit et maestum musa solatur amorem,

canentem molli pluma duxisse senectam,

linquentem terras et sidera voce sequentem.

Filius, aequalis comitatus classe catervas,

195ingentem remis Centaurum promovet; ille

instat aquae saxumque undis inmane minatur

arduus et longa sulcat maria alta carina.

Ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris,

fatidicae Mantus et Tusci filius amnis,

200qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen,

Mantua, dives avis; sed non genus omnibus unum:

gens illi triplex, populi sub gente quaterni,

ipsa caput populis, Tusco de sanguine vires.

Hinc quoque quingentos in se Mezentius armat,

205quos pater Benaco velatus harundine glauca

Mincius infesta ducebat in aequora pinu.

It gravis Aulestes centenaque arbore fluctum

verberat adsurgens, spumant vada marmore verso.

Hunc vehit inmanis Triton et caerula concha

210exterrens freta, cui laterum tenus hispida nanti

frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit alvus:

spumea semifero sub pectore murmurat unda.

Tot lecti proceres ter denis navibus ibant

subsidio Troiae et campos salis aere secabant.

215Iamque dies caelo concesserat almaque curru

noctivago Phoebe medium pulsabat Olympum:

Aeneas - neque enim membris dat cura quietem -

ipse sedens clavomque regit velisque ministrat.

Atque illi medio in spatio chorus ecce suarum

220occurrit comitum: Nymphae, quas alma Cybele

numen habere maris Nymphasque e navibus esse

iusserat, innabant pariter fluctusque secabant,

quot prius aeratae steterant ad litora prorae.

Adgnoscunt longe regem lustrantque choreis.

225Quarum quae fandi doctissima Cymodocea

pone sequens dextra puppim tenet ipsaque dorso

eminet ac laeva tacitis subremigat undis.

Tum sic ignarum adloquitur: "Vigilasne, deum gens

Aenea? Vigila et remis inmitte rudentis.

230Nos sumus Idaeae sacro de vertice pinus,

nunc pelagi nymphae, classis tua. Perfidus ut nos

praecipitis ferro Rutulus flammaque premebat,

rupimus invitae tua vincula, teque per aequor

quaerimus. Hanc genetrix faciem miserata refecit

235et dedit esse deas aevomque agitare sub undis.

At puer Ascanius muro fossisque tenetur

tela inter media atque horrentis Marte Latinos.

Iam loca iussa tenent forti permixtus Etrusco

Arcas eques: medias illis opponere turmas,

240ne castris iungant, certa est sententia Turno.

Surge age et Aurora socios veniente vocari

primus in arma iube et clipeum cape, quem dedit ipse

invictum Ignipotens atque oras ambiit auro.

Crastina lux, mea si non inrita dicta putaris,

245ingentis Rutulae spectabis caedis acervos."

Dixerat, et dextra discedens inpulit altam

haud ignara modi puppim: fugit illa per undas

ocior et iaculo et ventos aequante sagitta.

Inde aliae celerant cursus. Stupet inscius ipse

250Tros Anchisiades, animos tamen omine tollit.

Tum breviter, supera aspectans convexa, precatur:

"Alma parens Idaea deum, cui Dindyma cordi

turrigeraeque urbes biiugique ad frena leones,

tu mihi nunc pugnae princeps, tu rite propinques

255augurium Phrygibusque adsis pede, diva, secundo."

tantum effatus, et interea revoluta ruebat

matura iam luce dies noctemque fugarat:

principio sociis edicit, signa sequantur

atque animos aptent armis pugnaeque parent se.

260Iamque in conspectu Teucros habet et sua castra,

stans celsa in puppi, clipeum cum deinde sinistra

extulit ardentem: clamorem ad sidera tollunt

Dardanidae e muris, spes addita suscitat iras,

tela manu iaciunt: quales sub nubibus atris

265Strymoniae dant signa grues atque aethera tranant

cum sonitu fugiuntque Notos clamore secundo.

At Rutulo regi ducibusque ea mira videri

Ausoniis, donec versas ad litora puppes

respiciunt totumque adlabi classibus aequor.

270Ardet apex capiti cristisque a vertice flamma

funditur et vastos umbo vomit aureus ignis.

Non secus ac liquida si quando nocte cometae

sanguinei lugubre rubent aut Sirius ardor

ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris,

275nascitur et laevo contristat lumine caelum.

Haud tamen audaci Turno fiducia cessit

litora praecipere et venientis pellere terra.

[Ultro animos tollit dictis atque increpat ultro:]

"Quod votis optastis, adest perfringere dextra:

280in manibus Mars ipse, viri. Nunc coniugis esto

quisque suae tectique memor, nunc magna referto

facta, patrum laudes. Ultro occurramus ad undam,

dum trepidi egressisque labant vestigia prima.

Audentis Fortuna iuvat."

285Haec ait et secum versat, quos ducere contra

vel quibus obsessos possit concredere muros.

Interea Aeneas socios de puppibus altis

pontibus exponit. Multi servare recursus

languentis pelagi et brevibus se credere saltu,

290per remos alii. Speculatus litora Tarchon,

qua vada non spirant nec fracta remurmurat unda,

sed mare inoffensum crescenti adlabitur aestu,

advertit subito proram sociosque precatur:

"Nunc, o lecta manus, validis incumbite remis;

295tollite, ferte rates; inimicam findite rostris

hanc terram, sulcumque sibi premat ipsa carina.

Frangere nec tali puppim statione recuso

arrepta tellure semel." Quae talia postquam

effatus Tarchon, socii consurgere tonsis

300spumantisque rates arvis inferre Latinis,

donec rostra tenent siccum et sedere carinae

omnes innocuae, sed non puppis tua, Tarchon.

Namque inflicta vadis, dorso dum pendet iniquo,

anceps sustentata diu, fluctusque fatigat,

305solvitur atque viros mediis exponit in undis;

fragmina remorum quos et fluitantia transtra

inpediunt, retrahitque pedes simul unda relabens.

Nec Turnum segnis retinet mora, sed rapit acer

totam aciem in Teucros et contra in litore sistit.

310Signa canunt. Primus turmas invasit agrestis

Aeneas, omen pugnae, stravitque Latinos

occiso Therone, virum qui maximus ultro

Aenean petit: huic gladio perque aerea suta,

per tunicam squalentem auro latus haurit apertum.

315Inde Lichan ferit, exsectum iam matre perempta

et tibi, Phoebe, sacrum, casus evadere ferri

cui licuit parvo. Nec longe Cissea durum

inmanemque Gyan, sternentis agmina clava,

deiecit leto: nihil illos Herculis arma

320nec validae iuvere manus genitorque Melampus.

Alcidae comes usque gravis dum terra labores

praebuit. Ecce Pharo, voces dum iactat inertis,

intorquens iaculum clamanti sistit in ore.

Tu quoque, flaventem prima lanugine malas

325dum sequeris Clytium infelix, nova gaudia, Cydon,

Dardania stratus dextra, securus amorum,

qui iuvenum tibi semper erant, miserande iaceres,

ni fratrum stipata cohors foret obvia, Phorci

progenies, septem numero: septenaque tela

330coniciunt, partim galea clipeoque resultant

inrita, deflexit partim stringentia corpus

alma Venus. Fidum Aeneas adfatur Achaten:

"Suggere tela mihi: non ullum dextera frustra

torserit in Rutulos, steterant quae in corpore Graium

335Iliacis campis." Tum magnam corripit hastam

et iacit: illa volans clipei transverberat aera

Maeonis et thoraca simul cum pectore rumpit.

Huic frater subit Alcanor fratremque ruentem

sustentat dextra: traiecto missa lacerto

340protinus hasta fugit servatque cruenta tenorem,

dexteraque ex umero nervis moribunda pependit.

Tum Numitor iaculo fratris de corpore rapto

Aenean petiit; sed non et figere contra

est licitum, magnique femur perstrinxit Achatae.

345Hic Curibus fidens, primaevo corpore Clausus

advenit et rigida Dryopem ferit eminus hasta

sub mentum graviter pressa pariterque loquentis

vocem animamque rapit traiecto gutture; at ille

fronte ferit terram et crassum vomit ore cruorem.

350Tres quoque Threicios Boreae de gente suprema

et tris, quos Idas pater et patria Ismara mittit,

per varios sternit casus: accurrit Halaesus

Auruncaeque manus, subit et Neptunia proles

insignis Messapus equis: expellere tendunt

355nunc hi, nunc illi; certatur limine in ipso

Ausoniae. Magno discordes aethere venti

proelia ceu tollunt animis et viribus aequis;

non ipsi inter se, non nubila, non mare cedit;

anceps pugna diu, stant obnixa omnia contra:

360haud aliter Troianae acies aciesque Latinae

concurrunt; haeret pede pes densusque viro vir.

At parte ex alia, qua saxa rotantia late

inpulerat torrens arbustaque diruta ripis,

Arcadas insuetos acies inferre pedestris

365ut vidit Pallas Latio dare terga sequaci,

aspera quis natura loci dimittere quando

suasit equos, unum quod rebus restat egenis,

nunc prece, nunc dictis virtutem accendit amaris:

"Quo fugitis, socii? Per vos et fortia facta,

370per ducis Evandri nomen devictaque bella

spemque meam, patriae quae nunc subit aemula laudi,

fidite ne pedibus. Ferro rumpenda per hostis

est via. Qua globus ille virum densissimus urget,

hac vos et Pallanta ducem patria alta reposcit.

375Numina nulla premunt, mortali urgemur ab hoste

mortales, totidem nobis animaeque manusque.

Ecce maris magno claudit nos obice pontus,

dest iam terra fugae: pelagus Troiamne petemus?"

Haec ait et medius densos prorumpit in hostis.

380Obvius huic primum, fatis adductus iniquis,

fit Lagus. Hunc, magno dum vellit pondere saxum,

intorto figit telo, discrimina costis

per medium qua spina dabat, hastamque receptat

ossibus haerentem. Quem non super occupat Hisbon,

385ille quidem hoc sperans: nam Pallas ante ruentem,

dum furit, incautum crudeli morte sodalis

excipit atque ensem tumido in pulmone recondit.

Hinc Sthenium petit et Rhoeti de gente vetusta

Anchemolum, thalamos ausum incestare novercae.

390Vos etiam, gemini, Rutulis cecidistis in arvis,

Daucia, Laride Thymberque, simillima proles,

indiscreta suis gratusque parentibus error;

at nunc dura dedit vobis discrimina Pallas:

nam tibi, Thymbre, caput Evandrius abstulit ensis;

395te decisa suum Laride dextera quaerit

semianimesque micant digiti ferrumque retractant.

Arcadas accensos monitu et praeclara tuentes

facta viri mixtus dolor et pudor armat in hostis.

Tum Pallas biiugis fugientem Rhoetea praeter

400traicit. Hoc spatium tantumque morae fuit Ilo;

Ilo namque procul validam direxerat hastam,

quam medius Rhoeteus intercipit, optime Teuthra,

te fugiens fratremque Tyren, curruque volutus

caedit semianimis Rutulorum calcibus arva.

405Ac velut optato ventis aestate coortis

dispersa inmittit silvis incendia pastor,

correptis subito mediis extenditur una

horrida per latos acies Volcania campos;

ille sedens victor flammas despectat ovantis:

410non aliter socium virtus coit omnis in unum

teque iuvat, Palla. Sed bellis acer Halaesus

tendit in adversos seque in sua colligit arma.

Hic mactat Ladona Pheretaque Demodocumque,

Strymonio dextram fulgenti deripit ense

415elatam in iugulum, saxo ferit ora Thoantis

ossaque dispersit cerebro permixta cruento.

Fata canens silvis genitor celarat Halaesum:

ut senior leto canentia lumina solvit,

iniecere manum Parcae telisque sacrarunt

420Evandri. Quem sic Pallas petit ante precatus:

"Da nunc Thybri, pater, ferro, quod missile libro,

fortunam atque viam duri per pectus Halaesi.

Haec arma exuviasque viri tua quercus habebit."

Audiit illa deus: dum texit Imaona Halaesus,

425Arcadio infelix telo dat pectus inermum.

At non caede viri tanta perterrita Lausus,

pars ingens belli, sinit agmina: primus Abantem

oppositum interimit, pugnae nodumque moramque.

Sternitur Arcadiae proles, sternuntur Etrusci

430et vos, o Graiis inperdita corpora, Teucri.

Agmina concurrunt ducibusque et viribus aequis.

Extremi addensent acies nec turba moveri

tela manusque sinit. Hinc Pallas instat et urget,

hinc contra Lausus, nec multum discrepat aetas:

435egregii forma, sed quis Fortuna negarat

in patriam reditus. Ipsos concurrere passus

haud tamen inter se magni regnator Olympi:

mox illos sua fata manent maiore sub hoste.

Interea soror alma monet succedere Lauso

440Turnum, qui volucri curru medium secat agmen.

Ut vidit socios: "Tempus desistere pugnae:

solus ego in Pallanta feror, soli mihi Pallas

debetur; cuperem ipse parens spectator adesset."

Haec ait, et socii cesserunt aequore iusso.

445At Rutulum abscessu iuvenis tum iussa superba

miratus stupet in Turno corpusque per ingens

lumina volvit obitque truci procul omnia visu,

talibus et dictis it contra dicta tyranni:

"Aut spoliis ego iam raptis laudabor opimis

450aut leto insigni: sorti pater aequus utrique est.

Tolle minas." Fatus medium procedit in aequor,

frigidus Arcadibus coit in praecordia sanguis.

Desilvit Turnus biiugis, pedes apparat ire

comminus; utque leo, specula cum vidit ab alta

455stare procul campis meditantem in proelia taurum,

advolat; haud alia est Turni venientis imago.

Hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae,

ire prior Pallas, si qua fors adiuvet ausum

viribus inparibus, magnumque ita ad aethera fatur:

460"Per patris hospitium et mensas, quas advena adisti,

te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis.

Cernat semineci sibi me rapere arma cruenta

victoremque ferant morientia lumina Turni."

Audiit Alcides iuvenem magnumque sub imo

465corde premit gemitum lacrimasque effundit inanis.

Tum genitor natum dictis adfatur amicis:

"Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus

omnibus est vitae: sed famam extendere factis,

hoc virtutis opus. Troiae sub moenibus altis

470tot gnati cecidere deum; quin occidit una

Sarpedon, mea progenies. Etiam sua Turnum

fata vocant, metasque dati pervenit ad aevi."

Sic ait atque oculos Rutulorum reicit arvis.

At Pallas magnis emittit viribus hastam

475vaginaque cava fulgentem deripit ensem.

Illa volans umeri surgunt qua tegmina summa

incidit atque viam clipei molita per oras

tandem etiam magno strinxit de corpore Turni.

Hic Turnus ferro praefixum robur acuto

480in Pallanta diu librans iacit atque ita fatur:

"Adspice, num mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum."

Dixerat; at clipeum, tot ferri terga, tot aeris,

quem pellis totiens obeat circumdata tauri,

vibranti cuspis medium transverberat ictu

485loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens.

Ille rapit calidum frustra de volnere telum:

una eademque via sanguis animusque sequuntur.

Corruit in volnus, sonitum super arma dedere,

et terram hostilem moriens petit ore cruento.

490Quem Turnus super adsistens ‹sic ore profatur›:

"Arcades haec" inquit "memores mea dicta referte

Evandro: qualem meruit, Pallanta remitto.

Quisquis honos tumuli, quidquid solamen humandi est,

largior. Haud illi stabunt Aeneia parvo

495hospitia" et laevo pressit pede talia fatus

exanimem, rapiens inmania pondera baltei

inpressumque nefas: una sub nocte iugali

caesa manus iuvenum foede thalamique cruenti,

quae Clonus Eurytides multo caelaverat auro;

500quo nunc Turnus ovat spolio gaudetque potitus.

Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae

et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis!

Turno tempus erit, magno cum optaverit emptum

intactum Pallanta et cum spolia ista diemque

505oderit. At socii multo gemitu lacrimisque

inpositum scuto referunt Pallanta frequentes.

O dolor atque decus magnum rediture parenti!

Haec te prima dies bello dedit, haec eadem aufert,

cum tamen ingentis Rutulorum linquis acervos.

510Nec iam fama mali tanti, sed certior auctor

advolat Aeneae, tenui discrimine leti

esse suos, tempus versis succurrere Teucris.

Proxima quaeque metit gladio latumque per agmen

ardens limitem agit ferro, te, Turne, superbum

515caede nova quaerens. Pallas, Evander, in ipsis

omnia sunt oculis, mensae, quas advena primas

tunc adiit, dextraeque datae. Sulmone creatos

quattuor hic iuvenes, totidem, quos educat Ufens,

viventis rapit, inferias quos immolet umbris

520captivoque rogi perfundat sanguine flammas.

Inde Mago procul infensam contenderat hastam.

Ille astu subit ac tremibunda supervolat hasta,

et genua amplectens effatur talia supplex:

"Per patrios Manis et spes surgentis Iuli

525te precor, hanc animam serves gnatoque patrique.

Est domus alta, iacent penitus defossa talenta

caelati argenti, sunt auri pondera facti

infectique mihi. Non hic victoria Teucrum

vertitur aut anima una dabit discrimina tanta."

530Dixerat. Aeneas contra cui talia reddit:

"Argenti atque auri memoras quae multa talenta,

gnatis parce tuis. Belli commercia Turnus

sustulit illa prior iam tum Pallante perempto.

Hoc patris Anchisae Manes, hoc sentit Iulus."

535Sic fatus galeam laeva tenet atque reflexa

cervice orantis capulo tenus adplicat ensem.

Nec procul Haemonides, Phoebi Triviaeque sacerdos,

infula cui sacra redimibat tempora vitta,

totus collucens veste atque insignibus armis:

540quem congressus agit campo lapsumque superstans

immolat ingentique umbra tegit; arma Serestus

lecta refert umeris, tibi, rex Gradive, tropaeum.

Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus

Caeculus et veniens Marsorum montibus Umbro:

545Dardanides contra furit. Anxuris ense sinistram

et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem

- dixerat ille aliquid magnum vimque adfore verbo

crediderat caeloque animum fortasse ferebat

canitiemque sibi et longos promiserat annos: -

550Tarquitus exsultans contra fulgentibus armis,

silvicolae Fauno Dryope quem Nympha crearat,

obvius ardenti sese obtulit. Ille reducta

loricam clipeique ingens onus inpedit hasta,

tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis

555dicere deturbat terrae truncumque tepentem

provolvens super haec inimico pectore fatur:

"Istic nunc, metuende, iace. Non te optima mater

condet humi patrioque onerabit membra sepulcro:

alitibus linquere feris aut gurgite mersum

560unda feret piscesque inpasti volnera lambent."

Protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni,

persequitur fortemque Numam fulvomque Camertem,

magnanimo Volcente satum, ditissimus agri

qui fuit Ausonidum et tacitis regnavit Amyclis.

565Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt

centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem

pectoribusque arsisse, Iovis cum fulmina contra

tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret enses:

sic toto Aeneas desaevit in aequore victor,

570ut semel intepuit mucro. Quin ecce Niphaei

quadriiuges in equos adversaque pectora tendit.

Atque illi longe gradientem et dira frementem

ut videre, metu versi retroque ruentes

effunduntque ducem rapiuntque ad litora currus.

575Interea biiugis infert se Lucagus albis

in medios fraterque Liger; sed frater habenis

flectit equos, strictum rotat acer Lucagus ensem.

Haud tulit Aeneas tanto fervore furentis:

inruit adversaque ingens apparuit hasta.

580Cui Liger:

"Non Diomedis equos nec currum cernis Achillis

aut Phrygiae campos: nunc belli finis et aevi

his dabitur terris." Vesano talia late

dicta volant Ligeri, sed non et Troius heros

585dicta parat contra: iaculum nam torquet in hostem.

Lucagus ut pronus pendens in verbera telo

admonvit biiugos, proiecto dum pede laevo

aptat se pugnae, subit oras hasta per imas

fulgentis clipei, tum laevom perforat inguen:

590excussus curru moribundus volvitur arvis.

Quem pius Aeneas dictis adfatur amaris:

"Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum

prodidit aut vanae vertere ex hostibus umbrae:

ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris." Haec ita fatus

595arripuit biiugos; frater tendebat inertis

infelix palmas, curru delapsus eodem:

"Per te, per qui te talem genuere parentes,

vir Troiane, sine hanc animam et miserere precantis."

Pluribus oranti Aeneas "Haud talia dudum

600dicta dabas. Morere et fratrem ne desere frater."

Tum latebras animae pectus mucrone recludit.

Talia per campos edebat funera ductor

Dardanius, torrentis aquae vel turbinis atri

more furens. Tandem erumpunt et castra relinquunt

605Ascanius puer et nequiquam obsessa iuventus.

Iunonem interea compellat Iuppiter ultro:

"O germana mihi atque eadem gratissima coniunx,

ut rebare, Venus - nec te sententia fallit -

Troianas sustentat opes, non vivida bello

610dextra viris animusque ferox patiensque pericli."

Cui Iuno summissa "Quid, o pulcherrime coniunx,

sollicitas aegram et tua tristia iussa timentem?

Si mihi, quae quondam fuerat quamque esse decebat,

vis in amore foret, non hoc mihi namque negares,

615omnipotens, quin et pugnae subducere Turnum

et Dauno possem incolumem servare parenti.

Nunc pereat Teucrisque pio det sanguine poenas.

Ille tamen nostra deducit origine nomen,

Pilumnusque illi quartus pater, et tua larga

620saepe manu multisque oneravit limina donis."

Cui rex aetherii breviter sic fatur Olympi:

"Si mora praesentis leti tempusque caduco

oratur iuveni meque hoc ita ponere sentis,

tolle fuga Turnum atque instantibus eripe fatis:

625hactenus indulsisse vacat. Sin altior istis

sub precibus venia ulla latete totumque moveri

mutarive putas bellum, spes pascis inanis."

Et Iuno adlacrimans: "Quid si, quae voce gravaris,

mente dares atque haec Turno rata vita maneret?

630Nunc manet insontem gravis exitus, aut ego veri

vana feror. Quod ut o potius formidine falsa

ludar et in melius tua qui potes orsa reflectas."

Haec ubi dicta dedit, caelo se protinus alto

misit agens hiemem nimbo succincta per auras,

635Iliacamque aciem et Laurentia castra petivit.

Tum dea nube cava tenuem sine viribus umbram

in faciem Aeneae, visu mirabile monstrum,

Dardaniis ornat telis clipeumque iubasque

divini adsimulat capitis, dat inania verba,

640dat sine mente sonum gressusque effingit euntis;

morte obita qualis fama est volitare figuras

aut quae sopitos deludunt somnia sensus.

At primas laeta ante acies exsultat imago

inritatque virum telis et voce lacessit.

645Instat cui Turnus stridentemque eminus hastam

conicit, illa dato vertit vestigia tergo.

Tum vero Aenean aversum ut cedere Turnus

credidit atque animo spem turbidus hausit inanem:

"Quo fugis, Aenea? Thalamos ne desere pactos;

650hac dabitur dextra tellus quaesita per undas."

Talia vociferans sequitur strictumque coruscat

mucronem nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos.

Forte ratis celsi coniuncta crepidine saxi

expositis stabat scalis et ponte parato,

655qua rex Clusinis advectus Osinius oris.

Huc sese trepida Aeneae fugientis imago

conicit in latebras; nec Turnus segnior instat

exsuperatque moras et pontis transilit altos.

Vix proram attigerat, rumpit Saturnia funem

660avolsamque rapit revoluta per aequora navem.

Illum autem Aeneas absentem in proelia poscit;

obvia multa virum demittit corpora morti:

tum levis haud ultra latebras iam quaerit imago,

sed sublime volans nubi se immiscuit atrae,

665cum Turnum medio interea fert aequore turbo.

Respicit ignarus rerum ingratusque salutis

et duplicis cum voce manus ad sidera tendit:

"Omnipotens genitor, tanton me crimine dignum

duxisti et talis voluisti expendere poenas?

670Quo feror, unde abii, quae me fuga quemve reducit,

Laurentisne iterum muros aut castra videbo?

Quid manus illa virum, qui me meaque arma secuti

quosque, nefas, omnis infanda morte reliqui?

Et nunc palantis video gemitumque cadentum

675accipio. Quid ago aut quae iam satis ima dehiscat

terra mihi? Vos o potius miserescite, venti:

in rupes, in saxa - volens vos Turnus adoro -

ferte ratem saevisque vadis inmittite syrtis,

quo neque me Rutuli nec conscia fama sequatur."

680Haec memorans animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc,

an sese mucrone ob tantum dedecus amens

induat et crudum per costas exigat ensem,

fluctibus an iaciat mediis et litora nando

curva petat Teucrumque iterum se reddat in arma.

685Ter conatus utramque viam, ter maxima Iuno

continuit iuvenemque animi miserata repressit.

Labitur alta secans fluctuque aestuque secundo

et patris antiquam Dauni defertur ad urbem.

At Iovis interea monitis Mezentius ardens

690succedit pugnae Teucrosque invadit ovantis.

Concurrunt Tyrrhenae acies atque omnibus uni,

uni odiisque viro telisque frequentibus instant.

Ille velut rupes, vastum quae prodit in aequor,

obvia ventorum furiis expostaque ponto,

695vim cunctam atque minas perfert caelique marisque,

ipsa inmota manens, prolem Dolichaonis Hebrum

sternit humi, cum quo Latagum Palmumque fugacem,

sed Latagum saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis

occupat os faciemque adversam, poplite Palmum

700succiso volvi segnem sinit, armaque Lauso

donat habere umeris et vertice figere cristas.

Nec non Evanthen Phrygium Paridisque Mimanta

aequalem comitemque, una quem nocte Theano

in lucem genitori Amyco dedit et face praegnans

705Cisseis regina Parin creat; urbe paterna

occubat, ignarum Laurens habet ora Mimanta.

Ac velut ille canum morsu de montibus altis

actus aper, multos Vesulus quem pinifer annos,

defendit multosque palus Laurentia, silva

710pastus harundinea, postquam inter retia ventum est,

substitit infremuitque ferox et inhorruit armos

nec cuidam irasci propiusque accedere virtus,

sed iaculis tutisque procul clamoribus instant;

ille autem inpavidus partis cunctator in omnis,

715dentibus infrendens, et tergo decutit hastas:

haud aliter, iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,

non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro;

missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt.

Venerat antiquis Corythi de finibus Acron,

720Graius homo, infectos linquens profugus hymenaeos;

hunc ubi miscentem longe media agmina vidit

purpureum pennis et pactae coniugis ostro:

inpastus stabula alta leo ceu saepe peragrans,

suadet enim vesana fames, si forte fugacem

725conspexit capream aut surgentem in cornua cervom,

gaudet hians inmane, comasque arrexit et haeret

visceribus super incumbens, lavit inproba taeter

ora cruor:

sic ruit in densos alacer Mezentius hostis.

730Sternitur infelix Acron et calcibus atram

tundit humum exspirans infractaque tela cruentat.

Atque idem fugientem haud est dignatus Oroden

sternere nec iacta caecum dare cuspide volnus:

obvius adversoque occurrit seque viro vir

735contulit, haud furto melior, sed fortibus armis.

Tum super abiectum posito pede nixus et hasta:

"Pars belli haud temnenda, viri, iacet altus Orodes."

Conclamant socii laetum paeana secuti.

Ille autem exspirans "Non me, quicumque es, inulto,

740victor, nec longum laetabere: te quoque fata

prospectant paria atque eadem mox arva tenebis."

Ad quem subridens mixta Mezentius ira:

"Nunc morere. Ast de me divom pater atque hominum rex

viderit." Hoc dicens eduxit corpore telum.

745Olli dura quies oculos et ferreus urget

somnus, in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem.

Caedicus Alcathoum obtruncat, Sacrator Hydaspen

Partheniumque Rapo et praedurum viribus Orsen,

Messapus Cloniumque Lycaoniumque Ericeten,

750illum infrenis equi lapsu tellure iacentem,

hunc peditem. Pedes et Lycius processerat Agis,

quem tamen haud expers Valerus virtutis avitae

deicit; at Thronium Salius Saliumque Nealces

insidiis, iaculo et longe fallente sagitta.

755Iam gravis aequabat luctus et mutua Mavors

funera: caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant

victores victique, neque his fuga nota neque illis.

Di Iovis in tectis iram miserantur inanem

amborum et tantos mortalibus esse labores;

760hinc Venus, hinc contra spectat Saturnia Iuno,

pallida Tisiphone media inter milia saevit.

At vero ingentem quatiens Mezentius hastam

turbidus ingreditur campo. Quam magnus Orion,

cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei

765stagna viam scindens, umero supereminet undas

aut summis referens annosam montibus ornum

ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit:

talis se vastis infert Mezentius armis.

Huic contra Aeneas speculatus in agmine longo

770obvius ire parat. Manet inperterritus ille,

hostem magnanimum opperiens, et mole sua stat;

atque oculis spatium emensus, quantum satis hastae:

"Dextra mihi deus et telum, quod missile libro,

nunc adsint. Voveo praedonis corpore raptis

775indutum spoliis ipsum te, Lause, tropaeum

Aeneae." Dixit stridentemque eminus hastam

iecit; at illa volans clipeo est excussa proculque

egregium Antoren latus inter et ilia figit,

Herculis Antoren comitem, qui missus ab Argis

780haeserat Evandro atque Itala consederat urbe.

Sternitur infelix alieno volnere caelumque

adspicit et dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos.

Tum pius Aeneas hastam iacit: illa per orbem

aere cavom triplici, per lignea terga tribusque

785transit intextum tauris opus imaque sedit

inguine, sed vires haud pertulit. Ocius ensem

Aeneas, viso Tyrrheni sanguine laetus,

eripit a femine et trepidanti fervidus instat.

Ingemuit cari graviter genitoris amore

790ut vidit Lausus, lacrimaeque per ora volutae.

Hic mortis durae casum tuaque optima facta,

si qua fidem tanto est operi latura vetustas,

non equidem, nec te, iuvenis memorande, silebo.

Ille pedem referens et inutilis inque ligatus

795cedebat clipeoque inimicum hastile trahebat:

proripuit iuvenis seseque inmiscuit armis

iamque adsurgentis dextra plagamque ferentis

Aeneae subiit mucronem ipsumque morando

sustinuit. Socii magno clamore sequuntur,

800dum genitor nati parma protectus abiret,

telaque coniciunt perturbantque eminus hostem

missilibus. Furit Aeneas tectusque tenet se.

Ac velut effusa si quando grandine nimbi

praecipitant, omnis campis diffugit arator,

805omnis et agricola et tuta latet arce viator,

aut amnis ripis aut alti fornice saxi,

dum pluit in terris, ut possit sole reducto

exercere diem: sic obrutus undique telis

Aeneas nubem belli, dum detonet omnis,

810sustinet et Lausum increpitat Lausoque minatur:

"Quo, moriture, ruis maioraque viribus audes?

Fallit te incautum pietas tua." Nec minus ille

exsultat demens; saevae iamque altius irae

Dardanio surgunt ductori, extremaque Lauso

815Parcae fila legunt: validum namque exigit ensem

per medium Aeneas iuvenem totumque recondit.

Transiit et parmam mucro, levia arma minacis

et tunicam, molli mater quam neverat auro,

inplevitque sinum sanguis; tum vita per auras

820concessit maesta ad Manis corpusque reliquit.

At vero ut voltum vidit morientis et ora,

ora modis Anchisiades pallentia miris,

ingemuit graviter miserans dextramque tetendit,

et mentem patriae strinxit pietatis imago.

825"Quid tibi nunc, miserande puer, pro laudibus istis,

quid pius Aeneas tanta dabit indole dignum?

Arma, quibus laetatus, habe tua, teque parentum

Manibus et cineri, si qua est ea cura, remitto.

Hoc tamen, infelix, miseram solabere mortem:

830Aeneae magni dextra cadis." Increpat ultro

cunctantis socios et terra sublevat ipsum,

sanguine turpantem comptos de more capillos.

Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam

volnera siccabat lymphis corpusque levabat

835arboris adclinis trunco. Procul aerea ramis

dependet galea et prato gravia arma quiescunt.

Stant lecti circum iuvenes: ipse aeger anhelans

colla fovet, fusus propexam in pectore barbam;

multa super Lauso rogitat multumque remittit,

840qui revocent maestique ferant mandata parentis.

At Lausum socii exanimem super arma ferebant

flentes, ingentem atque ingenti volnere victum.

Adgnovit longe gemitum praesaga mali mens:

canitiem multo deformat pulvere et ambas

845ad caelum tendit palmas et corpore inhaeret.

"Tantane me tenuit vivendi, nate, voluptas,

ut pro me hostili paterer succedere dextrae,

quem genui, tuane haec genitor per volnera servor,

morte tua vivens? Heu, nunc misero mihi demum

850exitium infelix, nunc alte volnus adactum!

Idem ego, nate, tuum maculavi crimine nomen,

pulsus ob invidiam solio sceptrisque paternis.

Debueram patriae poenas odiisque meorum:

omnis per mortis animam sontem ipse dedissem!

855Nunc vivo neque adhuc homines lucemque relinquo.

Sed linquam." Simul hoc dicens attollit in aegrum

se femur et, quamquam vis alto volnere tardat,

haud deiectus equom duci iubet. Hoc decus illi,

hoc solamen erat: bellis hoc victor abibat

860omnibus. Adloquitur maerentem et talibus infit:

"Rhaebe diu, res si qua diu mortalibus ulla est,

viximus. Aut hodie victor spolia illa cruenta

et caput Aeneae referens Lausique dolorum

ultor eris mecum aut, aperit si nulla viam vis,

865occumbes pariter; neque enim, fortissime, credo

iussa aliena pati et dominos dignabere Teucros."

Dixit et exceptus tergo consueta locavit

membra manusque ambas iaculis oneravit acutis,

aere caput fulgens cristaque hirsutus equina.

870Sic cursum in medios rapidus dedit: aestuat ingens

uno in corde pudor mixtoque insania luctu.

[Et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus.]

Atque hic Aenean magna ter voce vocavit.

Aeneas adgnovit enim laetusque precatur:

875"Sic pater ille deum faciat, sic altus Apollo,

incipias conferre manum."

Tantum effatus et infesta subit obvius hasta.

Ille autem: "Quid me erepto, saevissime, nato

terres? Haec via sola fuit, qua perdere posses.

880Nec mortem horremus nec divom parcimus ulli.

Desine, nam venio moriturus et haec tibi porto

dona prius. Dixit telumque intorsit in hostem;

inde aliud super atque aliud figitque volatque

ingenti gyro, sed sustinet aureus umbo.

885Ter circum adstantem laevos equitavit in orbes

tela manu iaciens, ter secum Troius heros

inmanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.

Inde ubi tot traxisse moras, tot spicula taedet

vellere et urgetur pugna congressus iniqua,

890multa movens animo iam tandem erumpit et inter

bellatoris equi cava tempora conicit hasta.

Tollit se arrectum quadrupes et calcibus auras

verberat effusumque equitem super ipse secutus

implicat eiectoque incumbit cernuus armo.

895Clamore incendunt caelum Troesque Latinique.

Advolat Aeneas, vaginaque eripit ensem

et super haec: "Ubi nunc Mezentius acer et illa

effera vis animi?" Contra Tyrrhenus, ut auras

suspiciens hausit caelum mentemque recepit:

900"Hostis amare, quid increpitas mortemque minaris?

Nullum in caede nefas, nec sic ad proelia veni,

nec tecum meus haec pepigit mihi foedera Lausus.

Unum hoc per si qua est victis venia hostibus oro:

corpus huma patiare tegi. Scio acerba meorum

905circumstare odia: hunc, oro, defende furorem

et me consortem nati concede sepulcro."

Haec loquitur iuguloque haud inscius accipit ensem

undantique animam diffundit in arma cruore.

Pāndĭtŭr īntĕrĕā dŏmŭs ōmnĭpŏtēntĭs Ŏlŷmpī,

cōncĭlĭūmquĕ vŏcāt dīvōm pătĕr ātque hŏmĭnūm rēx

sīdĕrĕam īn sēdēm, tērrās ūnde ārdŭŭs ōmnīs

cāstrăquĕ Dārdănĭdum ādspēctāt pŏpŭlōsquĕ Lătīnōs.

Cōnsīdūnt tēctīs bĭpătēntĭbŭs, īncĭpĭt īpsĕ:5

"Caēlĭcŏlaē māgnī, quiānām sēntēntĭă vōbīs

vērsă rĕtrō tāntūmque ănĭmīs cērtātĭs ĭnīquīs?

Ābnŭĕrām bēllo Ītălĭām cōncūrrĕrĕ Teūcrīs.

Quaē cōntrā vĕtĭtūm dīscōrdĭă, quīs mĕtŭs aūt hōs

aūt hōs ārmă sĕquī fērrūmquĕ lăcēssĕrĕ suāsīt?10

Ādvĕnĭēt iūstūm pūgnaē, ne ārcēssĭtĕ, tēmpūs,

cūm fĕră Kārthāgō Rōmānīs ārcĭbŭs ōlīm

ēxĭtĭūm māgnum ātque Ālpēs īnmīttĕt ăpērtās:

tūm cērtāre ŏdĭīs, tūm rēs răpŭīssĕ lĭcēbīt.

Nūnc sĭnĭte ēt plăcĭtūm laētī cōnpōnĭtĕ foēdūs."15

Iūppĭtĕr haēc paūcīs; āt nōn Vĕnŭs aūrĕă cōntrā

paūcă rĕfērt:

"Ō pătĕr, ō | hŏmĭnūm rērūmque aētērnă pŏtēstās!

- nāmque ălĭūd quīd sīt quōd iam īnplōrārĕ quĕāmūs? -

Cērnĭs ŭt īnsūltēnt Rŭtŭlī Tūrnūsquĕ fĕrātūr20

pēr mĕdĭōs īnsīgnĭs ĕquīs, tŭmĭdūsquĕ sĕcūndō

Mārtĕ rŭāt. Nōn claūsă tĕgūnt iām moēnĭă Teūcrōs,

quīn īntrā pōrtās ātque īpsīs proēlĭă mīscēnt

āggĕrĭbūs mūrōrum, ĕt ĭnūndānt sānguĭnĕ fōssaē.

Aēnēās īgnārŭs ăbēst. Nūmquāmnĕ lĕvārī25

ōbsĭdĭōnĕ sĭnēs? Mūrīs ĭtĕrum īnmĭnĕt hōstīs

nāscēntīs Troīaē nēc nōn ēxērcĭtŭs āltēr;

ātque ĭtĕrum īn Teūcrōs Aētōlīs sūrgĕt ăb Ārpīs

Tŷdīdēs. Ĕquĭdēm crēdō, mĕă vōlnĕră rēstānt

ēt tŭă prōgĕnĭēs mōrtālĭă dēmŏrŏr ārmă.30

Sī sĭnĕ pācĕ tŭa ātque īnvītō nūmĭnĕ Trōēs

Ītălĭām pĕtĭērĕ, lŭānt pēccātă nĕque īllōs

iūvĕrĭs aūxĭlĭō; sīn tōt rēspōnsă sĕcūtī,

quaē Sŭpĕrī Mānēsquĕ dăbānt, cūr nūnc tŭă quīsquām

vērtĕrĕ iūssă pŏtēst aūt cūr nŏvă cōndĕrĕ fātă?35

Quīd rĕpĕtam ēxūstās Ĕrўcīno īn lītŏrĕ clāssēs,

quīd tēmpēstātūm rēgēm vēntōsquĕ fŭrēntīs

Aēŏlĭa ēxcītōs aūt āctām nūbĭbŭs Īrīm?

Nūnc ĕtĭām Mānīs - haēc īntēmptātă mănēbāt

sōrs rērūm - mŏvĕt, ēt sŭpĕrīs īnmīssă rĕpēntĕ40

Āllēctō, mĕdĭās Ĭtălūm bācchātă pĕr ūrbēs.

Nīl sŭpĕr īmpĕrĭō mŏvĕōr: spērāvĭmŭs īstă,

dūm fōrtūnă fŭīt; vīncānt quōs vīncĕrĕ māvīs.

Sī nūlla ēst rĕgĭō, Teūcrīs quām dēt tŭă cōniūnx

dūră, pĕr ēvērsaē, gĕnĭtōr, fūmāntĭă Troīaē45

ēxcĭdĭa ōbtēstōr, lĭcĕāt dīmīttĕre ăb ārmīs

īncŏlŭmem Āscănĭūm, lĭcĕāt sŭpĕrēssĕ nĕpōtēm.

Aēnēās sāne īgnōtīs iāctētŭr ĭn ūndīs

ēt quāmcūmquĕ vĭām dĕdĕrīt Fōrtūnă, sĕquātūr:

hūnc tĕgĕre ēt dīraē vălĕām sūbdūcĕrĕ pūgnaē.50

Ēst Ămăthūs, ēst cēlsă mĭhī Păphŏs ātquĕ Cўthēră

Īdălĭaēquĕ dŏmūs: pŏsĭtīs īnglōrĭŭs ārmīs

ēxĭgăt hīc aēvōm. Māgnā dĭcĭōnĕ iŭbētō

Kārthāgō prĕmăt Aūsŏnĭām: nĭhĭl ūrbĭbŭs īndĕ

ōbstābīt Tўrĭīs. Quīd pēstem ēvādĕrĕ bēllī55

iūvĭt ĕt Ārgŏlĭcōs mĕdĭūm fūgīssĕ pĕr īgnīs

tōtquĕ mărīs vāstaēque ēxhaūstă pĕrīcŭlă tērraē,

dūm Lătĭūm Teūcrī rĕcĭdīvăquĕ Pērgămă quaērūnt?

Nōn sătĭūs cĭnĕrēs pătrĭae īnsēdīssĕ sŭprēmōs

ātquĕ sŏlūm, quō Troīă fŭīt? Xānthum ēt Sĭmŏēntă60

rēdde, ōrō, mĭsĕrīs ĭtĕrūmquĕ rĕvōlvĕrĕ cāsūs

dā, pătĕr, Īlĭăcōs Teūcrīs." Tūm rēgĭă Iūnō

āctă fŭrōrĕ grăvī: "Quīd me āltă sĭlēntĭă cōgīs

rūmpĕre ĕt ōbdūctūm vērbīs vūlgārĕ dŏlōrēm?

Aēnēān hŏmĭnūm quīsquām dīvōmquĕ sŭbēgīt65

bēllă sĕqui aūt hōstēm rēgī se īnfērrĕ Lătīnō?

Ītălĭām pĕtĭīt fātīs aūctōrĭbŭs, ēstō,

Cāssāndrae īnpūlsūs fŭrĭīs: nūm līnquĕrĕ cāstră

hōrtātī sŭmŭs aūt vītām cōmmīttĕrĕ vēntīs,

nūm pŭĕrō sūmmām bēllī, nūm crēdĕrĕ mūrōs,70

Tŷrrhēnūmquĕ fĭdem aūt gēntīs ăgĭtārĕ quĭētās?

Quīs dĕŭs īn fraūdēm, quaē dūră pŏtēntĭă nōstrī

ēgĭt? Ŭbi hīc Iūnō dēmīssăvĕ nūbĭbŭs Īrīs?

Īndīgnum ēst Ĭtălōs Troīām cīrcūmdărĕ flāmmīs

nāscēntem ēt pătrĭā Tūrnūm cōnsīstĕrĕ tērrā,75

cuī Pīlūmnŭs ăvūs, cuī dīvă Vĕnīlĭă mātēr:

quīd făcĕ Trōiānōs ātrā vīm fērrĕ Lătīnīs,

ārva ălĭēnă iŭgō prĕmĕre ātque āvērtĕrĕ praēdās,

quīd sŏcĕrōs lĕgĕre ēt grĕmĭīs ābdūcĕrĕ pāctās,

pācem ōrārĕ mănū, praēfīgĕrĕ pūppĭbŭs ārmă?80

Tū pŏtĕs Aēnēān mănĭbūs sūbdūcĕrĕ Grāiūm

prōquĕ vĭrō nĕbŭlam ēt vēntōs ōbtēndĕre ĭnānīs,

ēt pŏtĕs īn tŏtĭdēm clāssēs cōnvērtĕrĕ Nŷmphās:

nōs ălĭquīd Rŭtŭlōs cōntrā iūvīssĕ nĕfāndum ēst?

Aēnēās īgnārŭs ăbēst: īgnārŭs ĕt ābsīt.85

Ēst Păphŏs Īdălĭūmquĕ tĭbī, sūnt āltă Cўthēră:

quīd grăvĭdām bēllīs ūrbem ēt cōrda āspĕră tēmptās?

Nōsnĕ tĭbī flūxās Phrўgĭaē rēs vērtĕrĕ fūndō

cōnāmūr, nōs, ān mĭsĕrōs quī Trōăs Ăchīvīs

ōbĭĕcīt? Quaē caūsă fŭīt, cōnsūrgĕre ĭn ārmă90

Eūrōpāmque Ăsĭāmque ēt foēdĕră sōlvĕrĕ fūrtō?

Mē dŭcĕ Dārdănĭūs Spārtam ēxpūgnāvĭt ădūltēr,

aūt ĕgŏ tēlă dĕdī fōvīquĕ Cŭpīdĭnĕ bēllă?

Tūm dĕcŭīt mĕtŭīssĕ tŭīs: nūnc sēră quĕrēllīs

haūd iūstīs ādsūrgĭs ĕt īnrĭtă iūrgĭă iāctās."95

Tālĭbŭs ōrābāt Iūnō, cūnctīquĕ frĕmēbānt

caēlĭcŏlae ādsēnsū vărĭō, ceū flāmĭnă prīmă

cūm dēprēnsă frĕmūnt sīlvīs ēt caēcă vŏlūtānt

mūrmŭră, vēntūrōs naūtīs prōdēntĭă vēntōs.

Tūm pătĕr ōmnĭpŏtēns, rērūm cuī sūmmă pŏtēstās,100

īnfĭt - ĕō dīcēntĕ dĕūm dŏmŭs āltă sĭlēscīt

ēt trĕmĕfāctă sŏlō tēllūs, sĭlĕt ārdŭŭs aēthēr,

tūm zĕphўrī pŏsŭērĕ, prĕmīt plăcĭda aēquŏră pōntūs -:

"Āccĭpĭte ērgo ănĭmīs ātque haēc mĕă fīgĭtĕ dīctă.

Quāndŏquĭdem Aūsŏnĭōs cōniūngī foēdĕrĕ Teūcrīs105

haūd lĭcĭtūm, nēc vēstră căpīt dīscōrdĭă fīnēm:

quaē cuīque ēst fōrtūna hŏdĭē, quām quīsquĕ sĕcāt spēm,

Trōs Rŭtŭlūsnĕ fŭāt, nūllō dīscrīmĭne hăbēbō,

seū fātīs Ĭtălūm cāstra ōbsĭdĭōnĕ tĕnēntūr,

sīve ērrōrĕ mălō Troīaē mŏnĭtīsquĕ sĭnīstrīs.110

Nēc Rŭtŭlōs sōlvō: sŭă cuīque ēxōrsă lăbōrēm

fōrtūnāmquĕ fĕrēnt. Rēx Iūppĭtĕr ōmnĭbŭs īdēm.

Fātă vĭam īnvĕnĭēnt." Stўgĭī pēr flūmĭnă frātrīs,

pēr pĭcĕ tōrrēntīs ātrāquĕ vŏrāgĭnĕ rīpās

ādnŭĭt ēt tōtūm nūtū trĕmĕfēcĭt Ŏlŷmpūm.115

Hīc fīnīs fāndī. Sŏlĭō tūm Iūppĭtĕr aūreō

sūrgīt, caēlĭcŏlaē mĕdĭūm quem ād līmĭnă dūcūnt.

Īntĕrĕā Rŭtŭlī pōrtīs cīrcum ōmnĭbŭs īnstānt

stērnĕrĕ caēdĕ vĭrōs ēt moēnĭă cīngĕrĕ flāmmīs.

Āt lĕgĭo Aēnĕădūm vāllīs ōbsēssă tĕnētūr,120

nēc spēs ūllă fŭgaē. Mĭsĕrī stānt tūrrĭbŭs āltīs

nēquīquam, ēt rārā mūrōs cīnxērĕ cŏrōnā:

Āsĭŭs Īmbrăsĭdēs Hĭcĕtāŏnĭūsquĕ Thўmoētēs

Āssărăcīquĕ dŭo ēt sĕnĭōr cūm Cāstŏrĕ Thŷbrīs

prīma ăcĭēs; hōs gērmānī Sārpēdŏnĭs āmbō125

ēt Clărŭs ēt Thaēmōn Lўcĭā cŏmĭtāntŭr ăb āltā.

Fērt īngēns tōtō cōnīxūs cōrpŏrĕ sāxūm,

haūd pārtem ēxĭgŭām mōntīs, Lŷrnēsĭŭs Ācmōn

nēc Clўtĭō gĕnĭtōrĕ mĭnōr nēc frātrĕ Mĕnēstheō.

Hī iăcŭlīs, īllī cērtānt dēfēndĕrĕ sāxīs130

mōlīrīque īgnēm nērvōque āptārĕ săgīttās.

Īpse īntēr mĕdĭōs Vĕnĕrīs iūstīssĭmă cūră

Dārdănĭūs căpŭt ēccĕ pŭēr dētēctŭs hŏnēstūm,

quālīs gēmmă mĭcāt, fūlvōm quaē dīvĭdĭt aūrūm,

aūt cōllō dĕcŭs aūt căpĭtī; vēl quālĕ pĕr ārtēm135

īnclūsūm būxo aūt Ōrīcīā tĕrĕbīnthō

lūcĕt ĕbūr; fūsōs cērvīx cuī lāctĕă crīnīs

āccĭpĭt ēt mōllī sūbnēctīt cīrcŭlŭs aūrō.

Tē quŏquĕ māgnănĭmaē vīdērūnt, Īsmărĕ, gēntēs

vōlnĕră dīrĭgĕre ēt călămōs ārmārĕ vĕnēnō,140

Maēŏnĭā gĕnĕrōsĕ dŏmō, | ŭbĭ pīnguĭă cūltă

ēxērcēntquĕ vĭrī Pāctōlūsque īnrĭgăt aūrō.

Ādfūīt ēt Mnēstheūs, quēm pūlsī prīstĭnă Tūrnī

āggĕrĕ mūrōrūm sūblīmēm glōrĭă tōllīt,

ēt Căpўs: hīnc nōmēn Cāmpānaē dūcĭtŭr ūrbī.145

Īlli īntēr sēsē dūrī cērtāmĭnă bēllī

cōntŭlĕrānt; mĕdĭa Aēnēās frĕtă nōctĕ sĕcābāt.

Nāmque ŭt ăb Ēvāndrō cāstrīs īngrēssŭs Ĕtrūscīs

rēgem ădĭt ēt rēgī mĕmŏrāt nōmēnquĕ gĕnūsquĕ,

quīdvĕ pĕtāt quīdve īpsĕ fĕrāt, Mēzēntĭŭs ārmă150

quaē sĭbĭ cōncĭlĭēt, vĭŏlēntăquĕ pēctŏră Tūrnī

ēdŏcĕt, hūmānīs quaē sīt fīdūcĭă rēbūs

ādmŏnĕt īnmīscētquĕ prĕcēs: haūd fīt mŏră, Tārchōn

iūngĭt ŏpēs foēdūsquĕ fĕrīt; tūm lībĕră fātīs

clāssēm cōnscēndīt iūssīs gēns Lŷdĭă dīvōm,155

ēxtērnō cōmmīssă dŭcī. | Aēnēĭă pūppīs

prīmă tĕnēt, rōstrō Phrўgĭōs sūbiūnctă lĕōnēs,

īnmĭnĕt Īdă sŭpēr, prŏfŭgīs grātīssĭmă Teūcrīs.

Hīc māgnūs sĕdĕt Aēnēās sēcūmquĕ vŏlūtāt

ēvēntūs bēllī vărĭōs, Pāllāsquĕ sĭnīstrō160

ādfīxūs lătĕrī iām quaērīt sīdĕra, ŏpācaē

nōctĭs ĭtēr, iām quaē pāssūs tērrāquĕ mărīquĕ.

Pāndĭtĕ nūnc Hĕlĭcōnă, dĕaē, cāntūsquĕ mŏvētĕ,

quaē mănŭs īntĕrĕā Tūscīs cŏmĭtētŭr ăb ōrīs

Aēnēān, ārmētquĕ rătēs pĕlăgōquĕ vĕhātūr.165

Māssĭcŭs aērātā prīncēps sĕcăt aēquŏră Tīgrī:

sūb quō mīllĕ mănūs iŭvĕnūm, quī moēnĭă Clūsī

quīque ūrbēm līquērĕ Cŏsās, quīs tēlă săgīttaē

gōrŷtīquĕ lĕvēs ŭmĕrīs ēt lētĭfĕr ārcūs.

Ūnā tōrvŭs Ăbās: huīc tōtum īnsīgnĭbŭs ārmīs170

āgmĕn ĕt aūrātō fūlgēbăt Ăpōllĭnĕ pūppīs.

sēscēntōs īllī dĕdĕrāt Pŏpŭlōnĭă mātēr

ēxpērtōs bēllī iŭvĕnēs, āst Īlvă trĕcēntōs,

īnsŭla ĭnēxhaūstīs Chălўbūm gĕnĕrōsă mĕtāllīs.

Tērtĭŭs īlle hŏmĭnūm dīvōmque īntērprĕs Ăsīlās,175

cuī pĕcŭdūm fībraē, caēlī cuī sīdĕră pārēnt

ēt līnguaē vŏlŭcrum ēt praēsāgī fūlmĭnĭs īgnēs

mīllĕ răpīt dēnsōs ăcĭe ātque hōrrēntĭbŭs hāstīs.

Hōs pārērĕ iŭbēnt Ālphēa ăb ŏrīgĭnĕ Pīsaē,

ūrbs Ētrūscă sŏlō. Sĕquĭtūr pūlchērrĭmŭs Āstūr,180

Āstŭr ĕquō fīdēns ēt vērsĭcŏlōrĭbŭs ārmīs.

Tērcēntum ādĭcĭūnt, mēns ōmnĭbŭs ūnă sĕquēndī,

quī Caērētĕ dŏmō, quī sūnt Mĭnĭōnĭs ĭn ārvīs,

ēt Pŷrgī vĕtĕrēs īntēmpēstaēquĕ Grăvīscaē.

Nōn ĕgŏ tē, Lĭgŭrūm dūctōr fōrtīssĭmĕ bēllō,185

trānsĭĕrīm, †Cĭnўra,† ēt paūcīs cŏmĭtātĕ Cŭpāvō,

cūiŭs ŏlōrīnaē sūrgūnt dē vērtĭcĕ pēnnaē,

crīmĕn, Ămōr, vēstrūm fōrmaēque īnsīgnĕ pătērnaē.

Nāmquĕ fĕrūnt lūctū Cŷcnūm Phaēthōntĭs ămātī,

pōpŭlĕās īntēr frōndēs ūmbrāmquĕ sŏrōrūm190

dūm cănĭt ēt maēstūm mūsā sōlātŭr ămōrēm,

cānēntēm mōllī plūmā dūxīssĕ sĕnēctām,

līnquēntēm tērrās ēt sīdĕră vōcĕ sĕquēntēm.

Fīlĭŭs, aēquālīs cŏmĭtātūs clāssĕ cătērvās,

īngēntēm rēmīs Cēntaūrūm prōmŏvĕt; īllĕ195

īnstăt ăquaē sāxūmque ūndīs īnmānĕ mĭnātūr

ārdŭŭs ēt lōngā sūlcāt mărĭa āltă cărīnā.

Īlle ĕtĭām pătrĭīs āgmēn cĭĕt Ōcnŭs ăb ōrīs,

fātĭdĭcaē Māntūs ēt Tūscī fīlĭŭs āmnīs,

quī mūrōs mātrīsquĕ dĕdīt tĭbĭ, Māntŭă, nōmēn,200

Māntŭă, dīvĕs ăvīs; sēd nōn gĕnŭs ōmnĭbŭs ūnūm:

gēns īllī trīplēx, pŏpŭlī sūb gēntĕ quătērnī,

īpsă căpūt pŏpŭlīs, Tūscō dē sānguĭnĕ vīrēs.

Hīnc quŏquĕ quīngēntōs īn sē Mēzēntĭŭs ārmāt,

quōs pātēr Bĕnăcō vēlātŭs hărūndĭnĕ glaūcā205

Mīncĭŭs īnfēstā dūcēbăt ĭn aēquŏră pīnū.

Īt grăvĭs Aūlēstēs cēntēnāque ārbŏrĕ flūctūm

vērbĕrăt ādsūrgēns, spūmānt vădă mārmŏrĕ vērsō.

Hūnc vĕhĭt īnmānīs Trītōn ēt caērŭlă cōnchā

ēxtērrēns frĕtă, cuī lătĕrūm tĕnŭs hīspĭdă nāntī210

frōns hŏmĭnēm praēfērt, īn prīstīm dēsĭnĭt ālvūs:

spūmĕă sēmĭfĕrō sūb pēctŏrĕ mūrmŭrăt ūndă.

Tōt lēctī prŏcĕrēs tēr dēnīs nāvĭbŭs ībānt

sūbsĭdĭō Troīae ēt cāmpōs sălĭs aērĕ sĕcābānt.

Iāmquĕ dĭēs caēlō cōncēssĕrăt ālmăquĕ cūrrū215

nōctĭvăgō Phoēbē mĕdĭūm pūlsābăt Ŏlŷmpūm:

Aēnēās - nĕque ĕnīm mēmbrīs dāt cūră quĭētēm -

īpsĕ sĕdēns clāvōmquĕ rĕgīt vēlīsquĕ mĭnīstrāt.

Ātque īllī mĕdĭo īn spătĭō chŏrŭs ēccĕ sŭārūm

ōccūrrīt cŏmĭtūm: Nŷmphaē, quās ālmă Cўbēlē220

nūmĕn hăbērĕ mărīs Nŷmphāsque ē nāvĭbŭs ēssĕ

iūssĕrăt, īnnābānt părĭtēr flūctūsquĕ sĕcābānt,

quōt prĭŭs aērātaē stĕtĕrānt ād lītŏră prōraē.

Ādgnōscūnt lōngē rēgēm lūstrāntquĕ chŏrēīs.

Quārūm quaē fāndī dōctīssĭmă Cŷmŏdŏcēă225

pōnĕ sĕquēns dēxtrā pūppīm tĕnĕt īpsăquĕ dōrsō

ēmĭnĕt āc laēvā tăcĭtīs sūbrēmĭgăt ūndīs.

Tūm sīc īgnārum ādlŏquĭtūr: "Vĭgĭlāsnĕ, dĕūm gēns

Aēnēā? Vĭgĭla ēt rēmīs īnmīttĕ rŭdēntīs.

Nōs sŭmŭs Īdaēaē sācrō dē vērtĭcĕ pīnūs,230

nūnc pĕlăgī nŷmphaē, clāssīs tŭă. Pērfĭdŭs ūt nōs

praēcĭpĭtīs fērrō Rŭtŭlūs flāmmāquĕ prĕmēbāt,

rūpĭmŭs īnvītaē tŭă vīncŭlă, tēquĕ pĕr aēquōr

quaērĭmŭs. Hānc gĕnĕtrīx făcĭēm mĭsĕrātă rĕfēcīt

ēt dĕdĭt ēssĕ dĕās aēvōmque ăgĭtārĕ sŭb ūndīs.235

Āt pŭĕr Āscănĭūs mūrō fōssīsquĕ tĕnētūr

tēla īntēr mĕdĭa ātque hōrrēntīs Mārtĕ Lătīnōs.

Iām lŏcă iūssă tĕnēnt fōrtī pērmīxtŭs Ĕtrūscō

Ārcăs ĕquēs: mĕdĭās īllīs ōppōnĕrĕ tūrmās,

nē cāstrīs iūngānt, cērta ēst sēntēntĭă Tūrnō.240

Sūrge ăge ĕt Aūrōrā sŏcĭōs vĕnĭēntĕ vŏcārī

prīmŭs ĭn ārmă iŭbe ēt clīpeūm căpĕ, quēm dĕdĭt īpsĕ

īnvīctum Īgnĭpŏtēns ātque ōrās āmbĭĭt aūrō.

Crāstĭnă lūx, mĕă sī nōn īnrĭtă dīctă pŭtārīs,

īngēntīs Rŭtŭlaē spēctābīs caēdĭs ăcērvōs."245

Dīxĕrăt, ēt dēxtrā dīscēdēns īnpŭlĭt āltām

haūd īgnāră mŏdī pūppīm: fŭgĭt īllă pĕr ūndās

ōcĭŏr ēt iăcŭlo ēt vēntōs aēquāntĕ săgīttā.

Īnde ălĭaē cĕlĕrānt cūrsūs. Stŭpĕt īnscĭŭs īpsĕ

Trōs Ānchīsĭădēs, ănĭmōs tămĕn ōmĭnĕ tōllīt.250

Tūm brĕvĭtēr, sŭpĕra āspēctāns cōnvēxă, prĕcātūr:

"Ālmă părēns Īdaēă dĕūm, cuī Dīndўmă cōrdī

tūrrĭgĕraēque ūrbēs bĭiŭgīque ād frēnă lĕōnēs,

tū mĭhĭ nūnc pūgnaē prīncēps, tū rītĕ prŏpīnquēs

aūgŭrĭūm Phrўgĭbūsque ādsīs pĕdĕ, dīvă, sĕcūndō."255

tāntum ēffātŭs, ĕt īntĕrĕā rĕvŏlūtă rŭēbāt

mātūrā iām lūcĕ dĭēs nōctēmquĕ fŭgārāt:

prīncĭpĭō sŏcĭīs ēdīcīt, sīgnă sĕquāntūr

ātque ănĭmōs āptēnt ārmīs pūgnaēquĕ părēnt sē.

Iāmque īn cōnspēctū Teūcrōs hăbĕt ēt sŭă cāstră,260

stāns cēlsa īn pūppī, clīpeūm cūm deīndĕ sĭnīstrā

ēxtŭlĭt ārdēntēm: clāmōrem ād sīdĕră tōllūnt

Dārdănĭdae ē mūrīs, spēs āddĭtă sūscĭtăt īrās,

tēlă mănū iăcĭūnt: quālēs sūb nūbĭbŭs ātrīs

Strŷmŏnĭaē dānt sīgnă grŭēs ātque aēthĕră trānānt265

cūm sŏnĭtū fŭgĭūntquĕ Nŏtōs clāmōrĕ sĕcūndō.

Āt Rŭtŭlō rēgī dŭcĭbūsque ĕă mīră vĭdērī

Aūsŏnĭīs, dōnēc vērsās ād lītŏră pūppēs

rēspĭcĭūnt tōtūmque ādlābī clāssĭbŭs aēquōr.

Ārdĕt ăpēx căpĭtī crīstīsque ā vērtĭcĕ flāmmă270

fūndĭtŭr ēt vāstōs ūmbō vŏmĭt aūrĕŭs īgnīs.

Nōn sĕcŭs āc lĭquĭdā sī quāndō nōctĕ cŏmētaē

sānguĭnĕī lūgūbrĕ rŭbēnt aūt Sīrĭŭs ārdōr

īllĕ sĭtīm mōrbōsquĕ fĕrēns mōrtālĭbŭs aēgrīs,

nāscĭtŭr ēt laēvō cōntrīstāt lūmĭnĕ caēlūm.275

Haūd tămĕn aūdācī Tūrnō fīdūcĭă cēssīt

lītŏră praēcĭpĕre ēt vĕnĭēntīs pēllĕrĕ tērrā.

[Ūltro ănĭmōs tōllīt dīctīs ātque īncrĕpăt ūltrō:]

"Quōd vŏtĭs ōptāstīs, ādēst pērfrīngĕrĕ dēxtrā:

īn mănĭbūs Mārs īpsĕ, vĭrī. Nūnc cōniŭgĭs ēstō280

quīsquĕ sŭaē tēctīquĕ mĕmōr, nūnc māgnă rĕfērtō

fāctă, pătrūm laūdēs. Ūltro ōccūrrāmŭs ăd ūndām,

dūm trĕpĭdi ēgrēssīsquĕ lăbānt vēstīgĭă prīmă.

Aūdēntīs Fōrtūnă iŭvāt."

Haēc ăĭt ēt sēcūm vērsāt, quōs dūcĕrĕ cōntrā285

vēl quĭbŭs ōbsēssōs pōssīt cōncrēdĕrĕ mūrōs.

Īntĕrĕa Aēnēās sŏcĭōs dē pūppĭbŭs āltīs

pōntĭbŭs ēxpōnīt. Mūltī sērvārĕ rĕcūrsūs

lānguēntīs pĕlăgi ēt brĕvĭbūs sē crēdĕrĕ sāltū,

pēr rēmōs ălĭī. Spĕcŭlātūs lītŏră Tārchōn,290

quā vădă nōn spīrānt nēc frāctă rĕmūrmŭrăt ūndă,

sēd măre ĭnōffēnsūm crēscēnti ādlābĭtŭr aēstū,

ādvērtīt sŭbĭtō prōrām sŏcĭōsquĕ prĕcātūr:

"Nūnc, ō lēctă mănūs, vălĭdīs īncūmbĭtĕ rēmīs;

tōllĭtĕ, fērtĕ rătēs; ĭnĭmīcām fīndĭtĕ rōstrīs295

hānc tērrām, sūlcūmquĕ sĭbī prĕmăt īpsă cărīnă.

Frāngĕrĕ nēc tālī pūppīm stătĭōnĕ rĕcūsō

ārrēptā tēllūrĕ sĕmēl." Quaē tālĭă pōstquām

ēffātūs Tārchōn, sŏcĭī cōnsūrgĕrĕ tōnsīs

spūmāntīsquĕ rătēs ārvīs īnfērrĕ Lătīnīs,300

dōnēc rōstră tĕnēnt sīccum ēt sēdērĕ cărīnaē

ōmnēs īnnŏcŭaē, sēd nōn pūppīs tŭă, Tārchōn.

Nāmque īnflīctă vădīs, dōrsō dūm pēndĕt ĭnīquō,

āncēps sūstēntātă dĭū, flūctūsquĕ fătīgāt,

sōlvĭtŭr ātquĕ vĭrōs mĕdĭīs ēxpōnĭt ĭn ūndīs;305

frāgmĭnă rēmōrūm quōs ēt flŭĭtāntĭă trānstră

īnpĕdĭūnt, rĕtrăhītquĕ pĕdēs sĭmŭl ūndă rĕlābēns.

Nēc Tūrnūm sēgnīs rĕtĭnēt mŏră, sēd răpĭt ācēr

tōtam ăcĭem īn Teūcrōs ēt cōntra īn lītŏrĕ sīstīt.

Sīgnă cănūnt. Prīmūs tūrmās īnvāsĭt ăgrēstīs310

Aēnēās, ōmēn pūgnaē, strāvītquĕ Lătīnōs

ōccīsō Thērōnĕ, vĭrūm quī māxĭmŭs ūltrō

Aēnēān pĕtĭt: huīc glădĭō pērque aērĕă sūtă,

pēr tŭnĭcām squālēntem aūrō lătŭs haūrĭt ăpērtūm.

Īndĕ Lĭchān fĕrĭt, ēxsēctūm iām mātrĕ pĕrēmptā315

ēt tĭbĭ, Phoēbĕ, săcrūm, cāsūs ēvādĕrĕ fērrī

cuī lĭcŭīt pārvō. Nēc lōngē Cīssĕă dūrūm

īnmānēmquĕ Gўān, stērnēntīs āgmĭnă clāvā,

dēiēcīt lētō: nĭhĭl īllōs Hērcŭlĭs ārmă

nēc vălĭdaē iūvērĕ mănūs gĕnĭtōrquĕ Mĕlāmpūs.320

Ālcīdaē cŏmĕs ūsquĕ grăvīs dūm tērră lăbōrēs

praēbŭĭt. Ēccĕ Phărō, vōcēs dūm iāctăt ĭnērtīs,

īntōrquēns iăcŭlūm clāmāntī sīstĭt ĭn ōrĕ.

Tū quŏquĕ, flāvēntēm prīmā lānūgĭnĕ mālās

dūm sĕquĕrīs Clўtĭum īnfēlīx, nŏvă gaūdĭă, Cŷdōn,325

Dārdănĭā strātūs dēxtrā, sēcūrŭs ămōrūm,

quī iŭvĕnūm tĭbĭ sēmpĕr ĕrānt, mĭsĕrāndĕ iăcērēs,

nī frātrūm stīpātă cŏhōrs fŏrĕt ōbvĭă, Phōrcī

prōgĕnĭēs, sēptēm nŭmĕrō: sēptēnăquĕ tēlă

cōnĭcĭūnt, pārtīm gălĕā clĭpĕōquĕ rĕsūltānt330

īnrĭtă, dēflēxīt pārtīm strīngēntĭă cōrpūs

ālmă Vĕnūs. Fīdum Aēnēās ādfātŭr Ăchātēn:

"Sūggĕrĕ tēlă mĭhī: nōn ūllūm dēxtĕră frūstrā

tōrsĕrĭt īn Rŭtŭlōs, stĕtĕrānt quae īn cōrpŏrĕ Grāiūm

Īlĭăcīs cāmpīs." Tūm māgnām cōrrĭpĭt hāstām335

ēt iăcĭt: īllă vŏlāns clĭpĕī trānsvērbĕrăt aēră

Maēŏnĭs ēt thōrācă sĭmūl cūm pēctŏrĕ rūmpīt.

Huīc frātēr sŭbĭt Ālcānōr frātrēmquĕ rŭēntēm

sūstēntāt dēxtrā: trāiēctō mīssă lăcērtō

prōtĭnŭs hāstă fŭgīt sērvātquĕ crŭēntă tĕnōrēm,340

dēxtĕrăque ēx ŭmĕrō nērvīs mŏrĭbūndă pĕpēndīt.

Tūm Nŭmĭtōr iăcŭlō frātrīs dē cōrpŏrĕ rāptō

Aēnēān pĕtĭīt; sēd nōn ēt fīgĕrĕ cōntrā

ēst lĭcĭtūm, māgnīquĕ fĕmūr pērstrīnxĭt Ăchātaē.

Hīc Cŭrĭbūs fīdēns, prīmaēvō cōrpŏrĕ Claūsūs345

ādvĕnĭt ēt rĭgĭdā Drўŏpēm fĕrĭt ēmĭnŭs hāstā

sūb mēntūm grăvĭtēr prēssā părĭtērquĕ lŏquēntīs

vōcem ănĭmāmquĕ răpīt trāiēctō gūttŭre; ăt īllĕ

frōntĕ fĕrīt tērram ēt crāssūm vŏmĭt ōrĕ crŭōrēm.

Trēs quŏquĕ Thrēĭcĭōs Bŏrĕaē dē gēntĕ sŭprēmā350

ēt trīs, quōs Īdās pătĕr ēt pătrĭa Īsmără mīttīt,

pēr vărĭōs stērnīt cāsūs: āccūrrĭt Hălaēsūs

Aūrūncaēquĕ mănūs, sŭbĭt ēt Nēptūnĭă prōlēs

īnsīgnīs Mēssāpŭs ĕquīs: ēxpēllĕrĕ tēndūnt

nūnc hī, nūnc īllī; cērtātūr līmĭne ĭn īpsō355

Aūsŏnĭaē. Māgnō dīscōrdēs aēthĕrĕ vēntī

proēlĭă ceū tōllūnt ănĭmīs ēt vīrĭbŭs aēquīs;

nōn īpsi īntēr sē, nōn nūbĭlă, nōn mărĕ cēdīt;

āncēps pūgnă dĭū, stānt ōbnīxa ōmnĭă cōntrā:

haūd ălĭtēr Trōiānae ăcĭēs ăcĭēsquĕ Lătīnaē360

cōncūrrūnt; haērēt pĕdĕ pēs dēnsūsquĕ vĭrō vīr.

Āt pārte ēx ălĭā, quā sāxă rŏtāntĭă lātē

īnpŭlĕrāt tōrrēns ārbūstăquĕ dīrŭtă rīpīs,

Ārcădăs īnsuētōs ăcĭēs īnfērrĕ pĕdēstrīs

ūt vīdīt Pāllās Lătĭō dărĕ tērgă sĕquācī,365

āspĕră quīs nātūră lŏcī dīmīttĕrĕ quāndō

sūăsĭt ēquŏs, ŭnūm quōd rēbūs rēstăt ĕgēnīs,

nūnc prĕcĕ, nūnc dīctīs vīrtūtem āccēndĭt ămārīs:

"Quō fŭgĭtīs, sŏcĭī? Pēr vōs ēt fōrtĭă fāctă,

pēr dŭcĭs Ēvāndrī nōmēn dēvīctăquĕ bēllă370

spēmquĕ mĕām, pătrĭaē quaē nūnc sŭbĭt aēmŭlă laūdī,

fīdĭtĕ nē pĕdĭbūs. Fērrō rūmpēndă pĕr hōstīs

ēst vĭă. Quā glŏbŭs īllĕ vĭrūm dēnsīssĭmŭs ūrgēt,

hāc vōs ēt Pāllāntă dŭcēm pătrĭa āltă rĕpōscīt.

Nūmĭnă nūllă prĕmūnt, mōrtāli ūrgēmŭr ăb hōstĕ375

mōrtālēs, tŏtĭdēm nōbīs ănĭmaēquĕ mănūsquĕ.

Ēccĕ mărīs māgnō claūdīt nōs ōbĭcĕ pōntūs,

dēst iām tērră fŭgaē: pĕlăgūs Troīāmnĕ pĕtēmūs?"

Haēc ăĭt ēt mĕdĭūs dēnsōs prōrūmpĭt ĭn hōstīs.

Ōbvĭŭs huīc prīmūm, fātīs āddūctŭs ĭnīquīs,380

fīt Lăgŭs. Hūnc, māgnō dūm vēllīt pōndĕrĕ sāxūm,

īntōrtō fīgīt tēlō, dīscrīmĭnă cōstīs

pēr mĕdĭūm quā spīnă dăbāt, hāstāmquĕ rĕcēptāt

ōssĭbŭs haērēntēm. Quēm nōn sŭpĕr ōccŭpăt Hīsbōn,

īllĕ quĭdem hōc spērāns: nām Pāllās āntĕ rŭēntēm,385

dūm fŭrĭt, īncaūtūm crūdēlī mōrtĕ sŏdālīs

ēxcĭpĭt ātque ēnsēm tŭmĭdo īn pūlmōnĕ rĕcōndīt.

Hīnc Sthĕnĭūm pĕtĭt ēt Rhoētī dē gēntĕ vĕtūstā

Ānchĕmŏlūm, thălămōs aūsum īncēstārĕ nŏvērcaē.

Vōs ĕtĭām, gĕmĭnī, Rŭtŭlīs cĕcĭdīstĭs ĭn ārvīs,390

Daūcĭă, Lārīdē Thŷmbērquĕ, sĭmīllĭmă prōlēs,

īndīscrētă sŭīs grātūsquĕ părēntĭbŭs ērrōr;

āt nūnc dūră dĕdīt vōbīs dīscrīmĭnă Pāllās:

nām tĭbĭ, Thŷmbrĕ, căpūt Ēvāndrĭŭs ābstŭlĭt ēnsīs;

tē dēcīsă sŭūm Lārīdē dēxtĕră quaērīt395

sēmiănĭmēsquĕ mĭcānt dĭgĭtī fērrūmquĕ rĕtrāctānt.

Ārcădăs āccēnsōs mŏnĭtu ēt praēclāră tŭēntēs

fāctă vĭrī mīxtūs dŏlŏr ēt pŭdŏr ārmăt ĭn hōstīs.

Tūm Pāllās bĭiŭgīs fŭgĭēntēm Rhoētĕă praētēr

trāĭcĭt. Hōc spătĭūm tāntūmquĕ mŏraē fŭĭt Īlō;400

Īlō nāmquĕ prŏcūl vălĭdām dīrēxĕrăt hāstām,

quām mĕdĭūs Rhoēteūs īntērcĭpĭt, ōptĭmĕ Teūthrā,

tē fŭgĭēns frātrēmquĕ Tўrēn, cūrrūquĕ vŏlūtūs

caēdīt sēmiănĭmīs Rŭtŭlōrūm cālcĭbŭs ārvă.

Āc vĕlŭt ōptātō vēntīs aēstātĕ cŏōrtīs405

dīspērsa īnmīttīt sīlvīs īncēndĭă pāstōr,

cōrrēptīs sŭbĭtō mĕdĭīs ēxtēndĭtŭr ūnă

hōrrĭdă pēr lātōs ăcĭēs Vōlcānĭă cāmpōs;

īllĕ sĕdēns vīctōr flāmmās dēspēctăt ŏvāntīs:

nōn ălĭtēr sŏcĭūm vīrtūs cŏĭt ōmnĭs ĭn ūnūm410

tēquĕ iŭvāt, Pāllā. Sēd bēllīs ācĕr Hălaēsūs

tēndĭt ĭn ādvērsōs sēque īn sŭă cōllĭgĭt ārmă.

Hīc māctāt Lādōnă Phĕrētăquĕ Dēmŏdŏcūmquĕ,

Strŷmŏnĭō dēxtrām fūlgēntī dērĭpĭt ēnsĕ

ēlātam īn iŭgŭlūm, sāxō fĕrĭt ōră Thŏāntīs415

ōssăquĕ dīspērsīt cĕrĕbrō pērmīxtă crŭēntō.

Fātă cănēns sīlvīs gĕnĭtōr cēlārăt Hălaēsūm:

ūt sĕnĭōr lētō cānēntĭă lūmĭnă sōlvīt,

īnĭĕcērĕ mănūm Pārcaē tēlīsquĕ săcrārūnt

Ēvāndrī. Quēm sīc Pāllās pĕtĭt āntĕ prĕcātūs:420

"Dā nūnc Thŷbrĭ, pătēr, fērrō, quōd mīssĭlĕ lībrō,

fōrtūnam ātquĕ vĭām dūrī pēr pēctŭs Hălaēsī.

Haēc ārma ēxŭvĭāsquĕ vĭrī tŭă quērcŭs hăbēbīt."

Aūdĭĭt īllă dĕūs: dūm tēxĭt Ĭmāŏna Hălaēsūs,

Ārcădĭo īnfēlīx tēlō dāt pēctŭs ĭnērmūm.425

Āt nōn caēdĕ vĭrī tāntā pērtērrĭtă Laūsūs,

pārs īngēns bēllī, sĭnĭt āgmĭnă: prīmŭs Ăbāntēm

ōppŏsĭtum īntĕrĭmīt, pūgnaē nōdūmquĕ mŏrāmquĕ.

Stērnĭtŭr Ārcădĭaē prōlēs, stērnūntŭr Ĕtrūscī

ēt vōs, ō Grăĭīs īnpērdĭtă cōrpŏră, Teūcrī.430

Āgmĭnă cōncūrrūnt dŭcĭbūsque ēt vīrĭbŭs aēquīs.

Ēxtrēmi āddēnsēnt ăcĭēs nēc tūrbă mŏvērī

tēlă mănūsquĕ sĭnīt. Hīnc Pāllās īnstăt ĕt ūrgēt,

hīnc cōntrā Laūsūs, nēc mūltūm dīscrĕpăt aētās:

ēgrĕgĭī fōrmā, sēd quīs Fōrtūnă nĕgārāt435

īn pătrĭām rĕdĭtūs. Īpsōs cōncūrrĕrĕ pāssūs

haūd tămĕn īntēr sē māgnī rēgnātŏr Ŏlŷmpī:

mōx īllōs sŭă fātă mănēnt māiōrĕ sŭb hōstĕ.

Īntĕrĕā sŏrŏr ālmă mŏnēt sūccēdĕrĕ Laūsō

Tūrnūm, quī vŏlŭcrī cūrrū mĕdĭūm sĕcăt āgmēn.440

Ūt vīdīt sŏcĭōs: "Tēmpūs dēsīstĕrĕ pūgnaē:

sōlŭs ĕgo īn Pāllāntă fĕrōr, sōlī mĭhĭ Pāllās

dēbētūr; cŭpĕrem īpsĕ părēns spēctātŏr ădēssēt."

Haēc ăĭt, ēt sŏcĭī cēssērūnt aēquŏrĕ iūssō.

Āt Rŭtŭlum ābscēssū iŭvĕnīs tūm iūssă sŭpērbă445

mīrātūs stŭpĕt īn Tūrnō cōrpūsquĕ pĕr īngēns

lūmĭnă vōlvĭt ŏbītquĕ trŭcī prŏcŭl ōmnĭă vīsū,

tālĭbŭs ēt dīctīs īt cōntrā dīctă tўrānnī:

"Aūt spŏlĭīs ĕgŏ iām rāptīs laūdābŏr ŏpīmīs

aūt lēto īnsīgnī: sōrtī pătĕr aēquŭs ŭtrīque ēst.450

Tōllĕ mĭnās." Fātūs mĕdĭūm prōcēdĭt ĭn aēquōr,

frīgĭdŭs Ārcădĭbūs cŏĭt īn praēcōrdĭă sānguīs.

Dēsĭlŭīt Tūrnūs bĭiŭgīs, pĕdĕs āppărăt īrĕ

cōmmĭnŭs; ūtquĕ lĕō, spĕcŭlā cūm vīdĭt ăb āltā

stārĕ prŏcūl cāmpīs mĕdĭtāntem īn proēlĭă taūrūm,455

ādvŏlăt; haūd ălĭa ēst Tūrnī vĕnĭēntĭs ĭmāgŏ.

Hūnc ŭbĭ cōntĭgŭūm mīssaē fŏrĕ crēdĭdĭt hāstaē,

īrĕ prĭōr Pāllās, sī quā fōrs ādiŭvĕt aūsūm

vīrĭbŭs īnpărĭbūs, māgnūmque ĭta ăd aēthĕră fātūr:

"Pēr pătrĭs hōspĭtĭum ēt mēnsās, quās ādvĕna ădīstī,460

tē prĕcŏr, Ālcīdē, coēptīs īngēntĭbŭs ādsīs.

Cērnāt sēmĭnĕcī sĭbĭ mē răpĕre ārmă crŭēntă

vīctōrēmquĕ fĕrānt mŏrĭēntĭă lūmĭnă Tūrnī."

Aūdĭĭt Ālcīdēs iŭvĕnēm māgnūmquĕ sŭb īmō

cōrdĕ prĕmīt gĕmĭtūm lăcrĭmāsque ēffūndĭt ĭnānīs.465

Tūm gĕnĭtōr nātūm dīctīs ādfātŭr ămīcīs:

"Stāt sŭă cuīquĕ dĭēs, brĕve ĕt īnrĕpărābĭlĕ tēmpūs

ōmnĭbŭs ēst vītaē: sēd fāmam ēxtēndĕrĕ fāctīs,

hōc vīrtūtĭs ŏpūs. Troīaē sūb moēnĭbŭs āltīs

tōt gnātī cĕcĭdērĕ dĕūm; quīn ōccĭdĭt ūnā470

Sārpēdōn, mĕă prōgĕnĭēs. Ĕtĭām sŭă Tūrnūm

fātă vŏcānt, mētāsquĕ dătī pērvēnĭt ăd aēvī."

Sīc ăĭt ātque ŏcŭlōs Rŭtŭlōrūm rēĭcĭt ārvīs.

Āt Pāllās māgnīs ēmīttīt vīrĭbŭs hāstām

vāgīnāquĕ căvā fūlgēntēm dērĭpĭt ēnsēm.475

Īllă vŏlāns ŭmĕrī sūrgūnt quā tēgmĭnă sūmmă

īncĭdĭt ātquĕ vĭām clĭpĕī mōlītă pĕr ōrās

tāndem ĕtĭām māgnō strīnxīt dē cōrpŏrĕ Tūrnī.

Hīc Tūrnūs fērrō praēfīxūm rōbŭr ăcūtō

īn Pāllāntă dĭū lībrāns iăcĭt ātque ĭtă fātūr:480

"Ādspĭcĕ, nūm măgĕ sīt nōstrūm pĕnĕtrābĭlĕ tēlūm."

Dīxĕrăt; āt clīpeūm, tōt fērrī tērgă, tŏt aērīs,

quēm pēllīs tŏtĭēns ŏbĕāt cīrcūmdătă taūrī,

vībrāntī cūspīs mĕdĭūm trānsvērbĕrăt īctū

lōrīcaēquĕ mŏrās ēt pēctūs pērfŏrăt īngēns.485

Īllĕ răpīt călĭdūm frūstrā dē vōlnĕrĕ tēlūm:

ūna ĕădēmquĕ vĭā sānguīs ănĭmūsquĕ sĕquūntūr.

Cōrrŭĭt īn vōlnūs, sŏnĭtūm sŭpĕr ārmă dĕdērĕ,

ēt tērram hōstīlēm mŏrĭēns pĕtĭt ōrĕ crŭēntō.

Quēm Tūrnūs sŭpĕr ādsīstēns ‹sīc ōrĕ prŏfātūr›:490

"Ārcădĕs haēc" īnquīt "mĕmŏrēs mĕă dīctă rĕfērtĕ

Ēvāndrō: quālēm mērvīt, Pāllāntă rĕmīttō.

Quīsquĭs hŏnōs tŭmŭlī, quīdquīd sōlāmĕn hŭmāndi ēst,

lārgĭŏr. Haūd īllī stābūnt Aēnēĭă pārvō

hōspĭtĭa" ēt laēvō prēssīt pĕdĕ tālĭă fātūs495

ēxănĭmēm, răpĭēns īnmānĭă pōndĕră bālteī

īnprēssūmquĕ nĕfās: ūnā sūb nōctĕ iŭgālī

caēsă mănūs iŭvĕnūm foēdē thălămīquĕ crŭēntī,

quaē Clŏnŭs Eūrўtĭdēs mūltō caēlāvĕrăt aūrō;

quō nūnc Tūrnŭs ŏvāt spŏlĭō gaūdētquĕ pŏtītūs.500

Nēscĭă mēns hŏmĭnūm fātī sōrtīsquĕ fŭtūraē

ēt sērvārĕ mŏdūm, rēbūs sūblātă sĕcūndīs!

Tūrnō tēmpŭs ĕrīt, māgnō cum ōptāvĕrĭt ēmptūm

īntāctūm Pāllānta ēt cūm spŏlĭa īstă dĭēmquĕ

ōdĕrĭt. Āt sŏcĭī mūltō gĕmĭtū lăcrĭmīsquĕ505

īnpŏsĭtūm scūtō rĕfĕrūnt Pāllāntă frĕquēntēs.

Ō dŏlŏr ātquĕ dĕcūs māgnūm rĕdĭtūrĕ părēntī!

Haēc tē prīmă dĭēs bēllō dĕdĭt, haēc ĕădem aūfērt,

cūm tămĕn īngēntīs Rŭtŭlōrūm līnquĭs ăcērvōs.

Nēc iām fāmă mălī tāntī, sēd cērtĭŏr aūctōr510

ādvŏlăt Aēnēaē, tĕnŭī dīscrīmĭnĕ lētī

ēssĕ sŭōs, tēmpūs vērsīs sūccūrrĕrĕ Teūcrīs.

Prōxĭmă quaēquĕ mĕtīt glădĭō lātūmquĕ pĕr āgmēn

ārdēns līmĭtem ăgīt fērrō, tē, Tūrnĕ, sŭpērbūm

caēdĕ nŏvā quaērēns. Pāllās, Ēvāndĕr, ĭn īpsīs515

ōmnĭă sūnt ŏcŭlīs, mēnsaē, quās ādvĕnă prīmās

tūnc ădĭīt, dēxtraēquĕ dătaē. Sūlmōnĕ crĕātōs

quāttŭŏr hīc iŭvĕnēs, tŏtĭdēm, quōs ēdŭcăt Ūfēns,

vīvēntīs răpĭt, īnfĕrĭās quōs īmmŏlĕt ūmbrīs

cāptīvōquĕ rŏgī pērfūndāt sānguĭnĕ flāmmās.520

Īndĕ Măgō prŏcŭl īnfēnsām cōntēndĕrăt hāstām.

Īlle āstū sŭbĭt āc trĕmĭbūndă sŭpērvŏlăt hāstă,

ēt gĕnŭa āmplēctēns ēffātūr tālĭă sūpplēx:

"Pēr pătrĭōs Mānīs ēt spēs sūrgēntĭs Ĭūlī

tē prĕcŏr, hānc ănĭmām sērvēs gnātōquĕ pătrīquĕ.525

Ēst dŏmŭs āltă, iăcēnt pĕnĭtūs dēfōssă tălēntă

caēlāti ārgēntī, sūnt aūrī pōndĕră fāctī

īnfēctīquĕ mĭhī. Nōn hīc vīctōrĭă Teūcrūm

vērtĭtŭr aūt ănĭma ūnă dăbīt dīscrīmĭnă tāntă."

Dīxĕrăt. Aēnēās cōntrā cuī tālĭă rēddīt:530

"Ārgēnti ātque aūrī mĕmŏrās quaē mūltă tălēntă,

gnātīs pārcĕ tŭīs. Bēllī cōmmērcĭă Tūrnūs

sūstŭlĭt īllă prĭōr iām tūm Pāllāntĕ pĕrēmptō.

Hōc pătrĭs Ānchīsaē Mānēs, hōc sēntĭt Ĭūlūs."

Sīc fātūs gălĕām laēvā tĕnĕt ātquĕ rĕflēxā535

cērvīce ōrāntīs căpŭlō tĕnŭs ādplĭcăt ēnsēm.

Nēc prŏcŭl Haēmŏnĭdēs, Phoēbī Trĭvĭaēquĕ săcērdōs,

īnfŭlă cuī sācrā rĕdĭmībāt tēmpŏră vīttā,

tōtūs cōllūcēns vēste ātque īnsīgnĭbŭs ārmīs:

quēm cōngrēssŭs ăgīt cāmpō lāpsūmquĕ sŭpērstāns540

īmmŏlăt īngēntīque ūmbrā tĕgĭt; ārmă Sĕrēstūs

lēctă rĕfērt ŭmĕrīs, tĭbĭ, rēx Grādīvĕ, trŏpaēūm.

Īnstaūrānt ăcĭēs Vōlcānī stīrpĕ crĕātūs

Caēcŭlŭs ēt vĕnĭēns Mārsōrūm mōntĭbŭs Ūmbrō:

Dārdănĭdēs cōntrā fŭrĭt. Ānxŭrĭs ēnsĕ sĭnīstrām545

ēt tōtūm clĭpĕī fērrō dĕĭēcĕrăt ōrbēm

- dīxĕrăt īlle ălĭquīd māgnūm vīmque ādfŏrĕ vērbō

crēdĭdĕrāt caēlōque ănĭmūm fōrtāssĕ fĕrēbāt

cānĭtĭēmquĕ sĭbi ēt lōngōs prōmīsĕrăt ānnōs: -

Tārquĭtŭs ēxsūltāns cōntrā fūlgēntĭbŭs ārmīs,550

sīlvĭcŏlaē Faūnō Drўŏpē quēm Nŷmphă crĕārāt,

ōbvĭŭs ārdēntī sēse ōbtŭlĭt. Īllĕ rĕdūctā

lōrīcām clĭpĕīque īngēns ŏnŭs īnpĕdĭt hāstā,

tūm căpŭt ōrāntīs nēquīquam ēt mūltă părāntīs

dīcĕrĕ dētūrbāt tērraē trūncūmquĕ tĕpēntēm555

prōvōlvēns sŭpĕr haēc ĭnĭmīcō pēctŏrĕ fātūr:

"Īstīc nūnc, mĕtŭēndĕ, iăcē. Nōn te ōptĭmă mātēr

cōndĕt hŭmī pătrĭōque ŏnĕrābīt mēmbră sĕpūlcrō:

ālĭtĭbūs līnquērĕ fĕrīs aūt gūrgĭtĕ mērsūm

ūndă fĕrēt pīscēsque īnpāstī vōlnĕră lāmbēnt."560

Prōtĭnŭs Āntaēum ēt Lūcām, prīma āgmĭnă Tūrnī,

pērsĕquĭtūr fōrtēmquĕ Nŭmām fūlvōmquĕ Cămērtēm,

māgnănĭmō Vōlcēntĕ sătūm, dītīssĭmŭs āgrī

quī fŭĭt Aūsŏnĭdum ēt tăcĭtīs rēgnāvĭt Ămŷclīs.

Aēgaēōn quālīs, cēntūm cuī brācchĭă dīcūnt565

cēntēnāsquĕ mănūs, quīnquāgīnta ōrĭbŭs īgnēm

pēctŏrĭbūsque ārsīssĕ, Iŏvīs cūm fūlmĭnă cōntrā

tōt părĭbūs strĕpĕrēt clĭpĕīs, tōt strīngĕrĕt ēnsēs:

sīc tōto Aēnēās dēsaēvĭt ĭn aēquŏrĕ vīctōr,

ūt sĕmĕl īntĕpŭīt mūcrō. Quīn ēccĕ Nĭphaēī570

quādrĭiŭgēs ĭn ĕquōs ādvērsăquĕ pēctŏră tēndīt.

Ātque īllī lōngē grădĭēntem ēt dīră frĕmēntēm

ūt vīdērĕ, mĕtū vērsī rētrōquĕ rŭēntēs

ēffūndūntquĕ dŭcēm răpĭūntque ād lītŏră cūrrūs.

Interea biiugis infert se Lucagus albis575

īn mĕdĭōs frātērquĕ Lĭgēr; sēd frātĕr hăbēnīs

flēctĭt ĕquōs, strīctūm rŏtăt ācēr Lūcăgŭs ēnsēm.

Haūd tŭlĭt Aēnēās tāntō fērvōrĕ fŭrēntīs:

īnrŭĭt ādvērsāque īngēns āppārŭĭt hāstā.

Cuī Lĭgĕr:580

"Nōn Dĭŏmēdĭs ĕquōs nēc cūrrūm cērnĭs Ăchīllīs

aūt Phrўgĭaē cāmpōs: nūnc bēllī fīnĭs ĕt aēvī

hīs dăbĭtūr tērrīs." Vēsānō tālĭă lātē

dīctă vŏlānt Lĭgĕrī, sēd nōn ēt Trōĭŭs hērōs

dīctă părāt cōntrā: iăcŭlūm nām tōrquĕt ĭn hōstēm.585

Lūcăgŭs ūt prōnūs pēndēns īn vērbĕră tēlō

ādmōnvīt bĭiŭgōs, prōiēctō dūm pĕdĕ laēvō

āptāt sē pūgnaē, sŭbĭt ōrās hāstă pĕr īmās

fūlgēntīs clĭpĕī, tūm laēvōm pērfŏrăt īnguēn:

ēxcūssūs cūrrū mŏrĭbūndūs vōlvĭtŭr ārvīs.590

Quēm pĭŭs Aēnēās dīctīs ādfātŭr ămārīs:

"Lūcăgĕ, nūllă tŭōs cūrrūs fŭgă sēgnĭs ĕquōrūm

prōdĭdĭt aūt vānaē vērtēre ēx hōstĭbŭs ūmbraē:

īpsĕ rŏtīs sălĭēns iŭgă dēsĕrĭs." Haēc ĭtă fātūs

ārrĭpŭīt bĭiŭgōs; frātēr tēndēbăt ĭnērtīs595

īnfēlīx pālmās, cūrrū dēlāpsŭs ĕōdēm:

"Pēr tē, pēr quī tē tālēm gĕnŭērĕ părēntēs,

vīr Trōiānĕ, sĭne hānc ănĭmam ēt mĭsĕrērĕ prĕcāntīs."

Plūrĭbŭs ōrānti Aēnēās "Haūd tālĭă dūdūm

dīctă dăbās. Mŏrĕre ēt frātrēm nē dēsĕrĕ frātēr."600

Tūm lătĕbrās ănĭmaē pēctūs mūcrōnĕ rĕclūdīt.

Tālĭă pēr cāmpōs ēdēbāt fūnĕră dūctōr

Dārdănĭūs, tōrrēntĭs ăquaē vēl tūrbĭnĭs ātrī

mōrĕ fŭrēns. Tāndem ērūmpūnt ēt cāstră rĕlīnquūnt

Āscănĭūs pŭĕr ēt nēquīquam ōbsēssă iŭvēntūs.605

Iūnōnem īntĕrĕā cōmpēllāt Iūppĭtĕr ūltrō:

"Ō gērmānă mĭhi ātque ĕădēm grātīssĭmă cōniūnx,

ūt rēbārĕ, Vĕnūs - nēc tē sēntēntĭă fāllīt -

Trōiānās sūstēntăt ŏpēs, nōn vīvĭdă bēllō

dēxtră vĭrīs ănĭmūsquĕ fĕrōx pātiēnsquĕ pĕrīclī."610

Cuī Iūnō sūmmīssă "Quĭd, ō pūlchērrĭmĕ cōniūnx,

sōllĭcĭtās aēgram ēt tŭă trīstĭă iūssă tĭmēntēm?

Sī mĭhĭ, quaē quōndām fŭĕrāt quāmque ēssĕ dĕcēbāt,

vīs ĭn ămōrĕ fŏrēt, nōn hōc mĭhĭ nāmquĕ nĕgārēs,

ōmnĭpŏtēns, quīn ēt pūgnaē sūbdūcĕrĕ Tūrnūm615

ēt Daūnō pōssem īncŏlŭmēm sērvārĕ părēntī.

Nūnc pĕrĕāt Teūcrīsquĕ pĭō dēt sānguĭnĕ poēnās.

Īllĕ tămēn nōstrā dēdūcĭt ŏrīgĭnĕ nōmēn,

Pīlūmnūsque īllī quārtūs pătĕr, ēt tŭă lārgā

saēpĕ mănū mūltīsque ŏnĕrāvīt līmĭnă dōnīs."620

Cuī rēx aēthĕrĭī brĕvĭtēr sīc fātŭr Ŏlŷmpī:

"Sī mŏră praēsēntīs lētī tēmpūsquĕ cădūcō

ōrātūr iŭvĕnī mēque hōc ĭtă pōnĕrĕ sēntīs,

tōllĕ fŭgā Tūrnum ātque īnstāntĭbŭs ērĭpĕ fātīs:

hāctĕnŭs īndūlsīssĕ văcāt. Sīn āltĭŏr īstīs625

sūb prĕcĭbūs vĕnĭa ūllă lătētĕ tŏtūmquĕ mŏvērī

mūtārīvĕ pŭtās bēllūm, spēs pāscĭs ĭnānīs."

Ēt Iūno ādlăcrĭmāns: "Quīd sī, quaē vōcĕ grăvārīs,

mēntĕ dărēs ātque haēc Tūrnō rătă vītă mănērēt?

Nūnc mănĕt īnsōntēm grăvĭs ēxĭtŭs, aūt ĕgŏ vērī630

vānă fĕrōr. Quŏd ŭt ō pŏtĭūs fōrmīdĭnĕ fālsă

lūdăr ĕt īn mĕlĭūs tŭă quī pŏtĕs ōrsă rĕflēctās."

Haēc ŭbĭ dīctă dĕdīt, caēlō sē prōtĭnŭs āltō

mīsĭt ăgēns hĭĕmēm nīmbō sūccīnctă pĕr aūrās,

Īlĭăcāmque ăcĭem ēt Laūrēntĭă cāstră pĕtīvīt.635

Tūm dĕă nūbĕ căvā tĕnŭēm sĭnĕ vīrĭbŭs ūmbrām

īn făcĭem Aēnēaē, vīsū mīrābĭlĕ mōnstrūm,

Dārdănĭīs ōrnāt tēlīs clīpeūmquĕ iŭbāsquĕ

dīvīni ādsĭmŭlāt căpĭtīs, dăt ĭnānĭă vērbă,

dāt sĭnĕ mēntĕ sŏnūm grēssūsque ēffīngĭt ĕūntīs;640

mōrte ŏbĭtā quālīs fāma ēst vŏlĭtārĕ fĭgūrās

aūt quaē sōpītōs dēlūdūnt sōmnĭă sēnsūs.

Āt prīmās laēta ānte ăcĭēs ēxsūltăt ĭmāgŏ

īnrītātquĕ vĭrūm tēlīs ēt vōcĕ lăcēssīt.

Īnstāt cuī Tūrnūs strīdēntēmque ēmĭnŭs hāstām645

cōnĭcĭt, īllă dătō vērtīt vēstīgĭă tērgō.

Tūm vēro Aēnēān āvērsum ūt cēdĕrĕ Tūrnūs

crēdĭdĭt ātque ănĭmō spēm tūrbĭdŭs haūsĭt ĭnānēm:

"Quō fŭgĭs, Aēnēā? Thălămōs nē dēsĕrĕ pāctōs;

hāc dăbĭtūr dēxtrā tēllūs quaēsītă pĕr ūndās."650

Tālĭă vōcĭfĕrāns sĕquĭtūr strīctūmquĕ cŏrūscāt

mūcrōnēm nēc fērrĕ vĭdēt sŭă gaūdĭă vēntōs.

Fōrtĕ rătīs cēlsī cōniūnctă crĕpīdĭnĕ sāxī

ēxpŏsĭtīs stābāt scālīs ēt pōntĕ părātō,

quā rēx Clūsīnīs ādvēctŭs Ŏsīnĭŭs ōrīs.655

Hūc sēsē trĕpĭda Aēnēaē fŭgĭēntĭs ĭmāgŏ

cōnĭcĭt īn lătĕbrās; nēc Tūrnūs sēgnĭŏr īnstāt

ēxsŭpĕrātquĕ mŏrās ēt pōntīs trānsĭlĭt āltōs.

Vīx prōram āttĭgĕrāt, rūmpīt Sātūrnĭă fūnēm

āvōlsāmquĕ răpīt rĕvŏlūtă pĕr aēquŏră nāvēm.660

Īllum aūtem Aēnēās ābsēntem īn proēlĭă pōscīt;

ōbvĭă mūltă vĭrūm dēmīttīt cōrpŏră mōrtī:

tūm lĕvĭs haūd ūltrā lătĕbrās iām quaērĭt ĭmāgŏ,

sēd sūblīmĕ vŏlāns nūbī se īmmīscŭĭt ātraē,

cūm Tūrnūm mĕdĭo īntĕrĕā fērt aēquŏrĕ tūrbŏ.665

Rēspĭcĭt īgnārūs rērum īngrātūsquĕ sălūtīs

ēt dŭplĭcīs cūm vōcĕ mănūs ād sīdĕră tēndīt:

"Ōmnĭpŏtēns gĕnĭtōr, tāntōn mē crīmĭnĕ dīgnūm

dūxīsti ēt tālīs vŏlŭīsti ēxpēndĕrĕ poēnās?

Quō fĕrŏr, ūnde ăbĭī, quaē mē fŭgă quēmvĕ rĕdūcīt,670

Laūrēntīsne ĭtĕrūm mūrōs aūt cāstră vĭdēbō?

Quīd mănŭs īllă vĭrūm, quī mē mĕăque ārmă sĕcūtī

quōsquĕ, nĕfās, ōmnīs īnfāndā mōrtĕ rĕlīquī?

Ēt nūnc pālāntīs vĭdĕō gĕmĭtūmquĕ cădēntūm

āccĭpĭō. Quĭd ăgo aūt quaē iām sătĭs īmă dĕhīscāt675

tērră mĭhī? Vōs ō pŏtĭūs mĭsĕrēscĭtĕ, vēntī:

īn rūpēs, īn sāxă - vŏlēns vōs Tūrnŭs ădōrō -

fērtĕ rătēm saēvīsquĕ vădīs īnmīttĭtĕ sŷrtīs,

quō nĕquĕ mē Rŭtŭlī nēc cōnscĭă fāmă sĕquātūr."

Haēc mĕmŏrāns ănĭmō nūnc hūc, nūnc flūctŭăt īllūc,680

ān sēsē mūcrōne ōb tāntūm dēdĕcŭs āmēns

īndŭăt ēt crūdūm pēr cōstās ēxĭgăt ēnsēm,

flūctĭbŭs ān iăcĭāt mĕdĭīs ēt lītŏră nāndō

cūrvă pĕtāt Teūcrūmque ĭtĕrūm sē rēddăt ĭn ārmă.

Tēr cōnātŭs ŭtrāmquĕ vĭām, tēr māxĭmă Iūnō685

cōntĭnŭīt iŭvĕnēmque ănĭmī mĭsĕrātă rĕprēssīt.

Lābĭtŭr āltă sĕcāns flūctūque aēstūquĕ sĕcūndō

ēt pătrĭs āntīquām Daūnī dēfērtŭr ăd ūrbēm.

Āt Iŏvĭs īntĕrĕā mŏnĭtīs Mēzēntĭŭs ārdēns

sūccēdīt pūgnaē Teūcrōsque īnvādĭt ŏvāntīs.690

Cōncūrrūnt Tŷrrhēnae ăcĭēs ātque ōmnĭbŭs ūnī,

ūni ŏdĭīsquĕ vĭrō tēlīsquĕ frĕquēntĭbŭs īnstānt.

Īllĕ vĕlūt rūpēs, vāstūm quaē prōdĭt ĭn aēquōr,

ōbvĭă vēntōrūm fŭrĭīs ēxpōstăquĕ pōntō,

vīm cūnctam ātquĕ mĭnās pērfērt caēlīquĕ mărīsquĕ,695

īpsa īnmōtă mănēns, prōlēm Dŏlĭchāŏnĭs Hēbrūm

stērnĭt hŭmī, cūm quō Lătăgūm Pālmūmquĕ fŭgācēm,

sēd Lătăgūm sāxo ātque īngēntī frāgmĭnĕ mōntīs

ōccŭpăt ōs făcĭēmque ādvērsām, pōplĭtĕ Pālmūm

sūccīsō vōlvī sēgnēm sĭnĭt, ārmăquĕ Laūsō700

dōnăt hăbēre ŭmĕrīs ēt vērtĭcĕ fīgĕrĕ crīstās.

Nēc nōn Eūānthēn Phrўgĭūm Părĭdīsquĕ Mĭmāntă

aēquālēm cŏmĭtēmque, ūnā quēm nōctĕ Thĕānō

īn lūcēm gĕnĭtōri Ămўcō dĕdĭt ēt făcĕ praēgnāns

Cīssēīs rēgīnă Părīn crĕăt; ūrbĕ pătērnā705

ōccŭbăt, īgnārūm Laūrēns hăbĕt ōră Mĭmāntă.

Āc vĕlŭt īllĕ cănūm mōrsū dē mōntĭbŭs āltīs

āctŭs ăpēr, mūltōs Vĕsŭlūs quēm pīnĭfĕr ānnōs,

dēfēndīt mūltōsquĕ pălūs Laūrēntĭă, sīlvā

pāstŭs hărūndĭnĕā, pōstquam īntēr rētĭă vēntum ēst,710

sūbstĭtĭt īnfrĕmŭītquĕ fĕrōx ĕt ĭnhōrrŭĭt ārmōs

nēc cuīdam īrāscī prŏpĭūsque āccēdĕrĕ vīrtūs,

sēd iăcŭlīs tūtīsquĕ prŏcūl clāmōrĭbŭs īnstānt;

īlle aūtem īnpăvĭdūs pārtīs cūnctātŏr ĭn ōmnīs,

dēntĭbŭs īnfrēndēns, ēt tērgō dēcŭtĭt hāstās:715

haūd ălĭtēr, iūstaē quĭbŭs ēst Mēzēntĭŭs īraē,

nōn ūlli ēst ănĭmūs strīctō cōncūrrĕrĕ fērrō;

mīssĭlĭbūs lōnge ēt vāstō clāmōrĕ lăcēssūnt.

Vēnĕrăt āntīquīs Cŏrўthī dē fīnĭbŭs Ācrōn,

Grāiŭs hŏmo, īnfēctōs līnquēns prŏfŭgūs hўmĕnaēōs;720

hūnc ŭbĭ mīscēntēm lōngē mĕdĭa āgmĭnă vīdīt

pūrpŭrĕūm pēnnīs ēt pāctaē cōniŭgĭs ōstrō:

īnpāstūs stăbŭla āltă lĕō ceū saēpĕ pĕrāgrāns,

suādĕt ĕnīm vēsānă fămēs, sī fōrtĕ fŭgācēm

cōnspēxīt căprĕam aūt sūrgēntem īn cōrnŭă cērvōm,725

gaūdĕt hĭāns īnmānĕ, cŏmāsque ārrēxĭt ĕt haērēt

vīscĕrĭbūs sŭpĕr īncūmbēns, lăvĭt īnprŏbă taētēr

ōră crŭōr:

sīc rŭĭt īn dēnsōs ălăcēr Mēzēntĭŭs hōstīs.

Stērnĭtŭr īnfēlīx Ācrōn ēt cālcĭbŭs ātrām730

tūndĭt hŭmum ēxspīrāns īnfrāctăquĕ tēlă crŭēntāt.

Ātque īdēm fŭgĭēntem haūd ēst dīgnātŭs Ŏrōdēn

stērnĕrĕ nēc iāctā caēcūm dărĕ cūspĭdĕ vōlnūs:

ōbvĭŭs ādvērsōque ōccūrrīt sēquĕ vĭrō vīr

cōntŭlĭt, haūd fūrtō mĕlĭōr, sēd fōrtĭbŭs ārmīs.735

Tūm sŭpĕr ābiēctūm pŏsĭtō pĕdĕ nīxŭs ĕt hāstā:

"Pārs bēlli haūd tēmnēndă, vĭrī, iăcĕt āltŭs Ŏrōdēs."

Cōnclāmānt sŏcĭī laētūm paēānă sĕcūtī.

Īlle aūtem ēxspīrāns "Nōn mē, quīcūmque ĕs, ĭnūltō,

vīctōr, nēc lōngūm laētābĕrĕ: tē quŏquĕ fātă740

prōspēctānt părĭa ātque ĕădēm mōx ārvă tĕnēbīs."

Ād quēm sūbrīdēns mīxtā Mēzēntĭŭs īrā:

"Nūnc mŏrĕre. Āst dē mē dīvōm pătĕr ātque hŏmĭnūm rēx

vīdĕrĭt." Hōc dīcēns ēdūxīt cōrpŏrĕ tēlūm.

Ōllī dūră quĭēs ŏcŭlōs ēt fērrĕŭs ūrgēt745

sōmnŭs, ĭn aētērnām claūdūntūr lūmĭnă nōctēm.

Caēdĭcŭs Ālcăthŏum ōbtrūncāt, Sācrātŏr Hўdāspēn

Pārthĕnĭūmquĕ Răpo ēt praēdūrūm vīrĭbŭs Ōrsēn,

Mēssāpūs Clŏnĭūmquĕ Lўcāŏnĭūmque Ĕrĭcētēn,

īllum īnfrēnĭs ĕquī lāpsū tēllūrĕ iăcēntēm,750

hūnc pĕdĭtēm. Pĕdĕs ēt Lўcĭūs prōcēssĕrăt Āgīs,

quēm tămĕn haūd ēxpērs Vălĕrūs vīrtūtĭs ăvītaē

dēĭcĭt; āt Thrŏnĭūm Sălĭūs Sălĭūmquĕ Nĕālcēs

īnsĭdĭīs, iăcŭlo ēt lōngē fāllēntĕ săgīttā.

Iām grăvĭs aēquābāt lūctūs ēt mūtŭă Māvōrs755

fūnĕră: caēdēbānt părĭtēr părĭtērquĕ rŭēbānt

vīctōrēs vīctīquĕ, nĕque hīs fŭgă nōtă nĕque īllīs.

Dī Iōvīs īn tēctĭs ĭrām mĭsĕrāntŭr ĭnānēm

āmbōrum ēt tāntōs mōrtālĭbŭs ēssĕ lăbōrēs;

hīnc Vĕnŭs, hīnc cōntrā spēctāt Sātūrnĭă Iūnō,760

pāllĭdă Tīsĭphŏnē mĕdĭa īntēr mīlĭă saēvīt.

Āt vēro īngēntēm quătĭēns Mēzēntĭŭs hāstām

tūrbĭdŭs īngrĕdĭtūr cāmpō. Quām māgnŭs Ŏrīōn,

cūm pĕdĕs īncēdīt mĕdĭī pēr māxĭmă Nēreī

stāgnă vĭām scīndēns, ŭmĕrō sŭpĕrēmĭnĕt ūndās765

aūt sūmmīs rĕfĕrēns ānnōsām mōntĭbŭs ōrnūm

īngrĕdĭtūrquĕ sŏlo ēt căpŭt īntēr nūbĭlă cōndīt:

tālīs sē vāstīs īnfērt Mēzēntĭŭs ārmīs.

Huīc cōntra Aēnēās spĕcŭlātŭs ĭn āgmĭnĕ lōngō

ōbvĭŭs īrĕ părāt. Mănĕt īnpērtērrĭtŭs īllĕ,770

hōstēm māgnănĭmum ōppĕrĭēns, ēt mōlĕ sŭā stāt;

ātque ŏcŭlīs spătĭum ēmēnsūs, quāntūm sătĭs hāstaē:

"Dēxtră mĭhī dĕŭs ēt tēlūm, quōd mīssĭlĕ lībrō,

nūnc ādsīnt. Vŏvĕō praēdōnīs cōrpŏrĕ rāptīs

īndūtūm spŏlĭīs īpsūm tē, Laūsĕ, trŏpaēūm775

Aēnēaē." Dīxīt strīdēntēmque ēmĭnŭs hāstām

iēcĭt; ăt īllă vŏlāns clĭpĕo ēst ēxcūssă prŏcūlquĕ

ēgrĕgĭum Āntōrēn lătŭs īntĕr ĕt īlĭă fīgīt,

Hērcŭlĭs Āntōrēn cŏmĭtēm, quī mīssŭs ăb Ārgīs

haēsĕrăt Ēvāndro ātque Ĭtălā cōnsēdĕrăt ūrbĕ.780

Stērnĭtŭr īnfēlīx ălĭēnō vōlnĕrĕ caēlūmque

ādspĭcĭt ēt dūlcēs mŏrĭēns rĕmĭnīscĭtŭr Ārgōs.

Tūm pĭŭs Aēnēās hāstām iăcĭt: īllă pĕr ōrbēm

aērĕ căvōm trĭplĭcī, pēr līgnĕă tērgă trĭbūsquē

trānsīt īntēxtūm taūrīs ŏpŭs īmăquĕ sēdīt785

īnguĭnĕ, sēd vīrēs haūd pērtŭlĭt. Ōcĭŭs ēnsēm

Aēnēās, vīsō Tŷrrhēnī sānguĭnĕ laētūs,

ērĭpĭt ā fĕmĭne ēt trĕpĭdāntī fērvĭdŭs īnstāt.

Īngĕmŭīt cārī grăvĭtēr gĕnĭtōrĭs ămōrĕ

ūt vīdīt Laūsūs, lăcrĭmaēquĕ pĕr ōră vŏlūtaē.790

Hīc mōrtīs dūraē cāsūm tŭăque ōptĭmă fāctă,

sī quă fĭdēm tānto ēst ŏpĕrī lātūră vĕtūstās,

nōn ĕquĭdēm, nēc tē, iŭvĕnīs mĕmŏrāndĕ, sĭlēbō.

Īllĕ pĕdēm rĕfĕrēns ĕt ĭnūtĭlĭs īnquĕ lĭgātūs

cēdēbāt clĭpĕōque ĭnĭmīcum hāstīlĕ trăhēbāt:795

prōrĭpŭīt iŭvĕnīs sēsēque īnmīscŭĭt ārmīs

iāmque ādsūrgēntīs dēxtrā plāgāmquĕ fĕrēntīs

Aēnēaē sŭbĭīt mūcrōnem īpsūmquĕ mŏrāndō

sūstĭnŭīt. Sŏcĭī māgnō clāmōrĕ sĕquūntūr,

dūm gĕnĭtōr nātī pārmā prōtēctŭs ăbīrēt,800

tēlăquĕ cōnĭcĭūnt pērtūrbāntque ēmĭnŭs hōstēm

mīssĭlĭbūs. Fŭrĭt Aēnēās tēctūsquĕ tĕnēt sē.

Āc vĕlŭt ēffūsā sī quāndō grāndĭnĕ nīmbī

praēcĭpĭtānt, ōmnīs cāmpīs dīffūgĭt ărātōr,

ōmnĭs ĕt āgrĭcŏla ēt tūtā lătĕt ārcĕ vĭātōr,805

aūt āmnīs rīpīs aūt āltī fōrnĭcĕ sāxī,

dūm plŭĭt īn tērrīs, ūt pōssīt sōlĕ rĕdūctō

ēxērcērĕ dĭēm: sīc ōbrŭtŭs ūndĭquĕ tēlīs

Aēnēās nūbēm bēllī, dūm dētŏnĕt ōmnīs,

sūstĭnĕt ēt Laūsum īncrĕpĭtāt Laūsōquĕ mĭnātūr:810

"Quō, mŏrĭtūrĕ, rŭīs māiōrăquĕ vīrĭbŭs aūdēs?

Fāllīt te īncaūtūm pĭĕtās tŭă. Nēc mĭnŭs īllĕ

ēxsūltāt dēmēns; saēvaē iāmque āltĭŭs īraē

Dārdănĭō sūrgūnt dūctōri, ēxtrēmăquĕ Laūsō

Pārcaē fīlă lĕgūnt: vălĭdūm nāmque ēxĭgĭt ēnsēm815

pēr mĕdĭum Aēnēās iŭvĕnēm tōtūmquĕ rĕcōndīt.

Trānsĭĭt ēt pārmām mūcrō, lĕvĭa ārmă mĭnācīs

ēt tŭnĭcām, mōllī mātēr quām nēvĕrăt aūrō,

īnplēvītquĕ sĭnūm sānguīs; tūm vītă pĕr aūrās

cōncēssīt maēsta ād Mānīs cōrpūsquĕ rĕlīquīt.820

Āt vēro ūt vōltūm vīdīt mŏrĭēntĭs ĕt ōră,

ōră mŏdīs Ānchīsĭădēs pāllēntĭă mīrīs,

īngĕmŭīt grăvĭtēr mĭsĕrāns dēxtrāmquĕ tĕtēndīt,

ēt mēntēm pătrĭaē strīnxīt pĭĕtātĭs ĭmāgŏ.

"Quīd tĭbĭ nūnc, mĭsĕrāndĕ pŭēr, prō laūdĭbŭs īstīs,825

quīd pĭŭs Aēnēās tāntā dăbĭt īndŏlĕ dīgnūm?

Ārmă, quĭbūs laētātŭs, hăbē tŭă, tēquĕ părēntūm

Mānĭbŭs ēt cĭnĕrī, sī qua ēst ĕă cūră, rĕmīttō.

Hōc tămĕn, īnfēlīx, mĭsĕrām sōlābĕrĕ mōrtēm:

Aēnēaē māgnī dēxtrā cădĭs." Īncrĕpăt ūltrō830

cūnctāntīs sŏcĭōs ēt tērrā sūblĕvăt īpsūm,

sānguĭnĕ tūrpāntēm cōmptōs dē mōrĕ căpīllōs.

Īntĕrĕā gĕnĭtōr Tĭbĕrīni ād flūmĭnĭs ūndām

vōlnĕră sīccābāt lŷmphīs cōrpūsquĕ lĕvābāt

ārbŏrĭs ādclīnīs trūncō. Prŏcŭl aērĕă rāmīs835

dēpēndēt gălĕa ēt prātō grăvĭa ārmă quĭēscūnt.

Stānt lēctī cīrcūm iŭvĕnēs: īpse aēgĕr ănhēlāns

cōllă fŏvēt, fūsūs prōpēxam īn pēctŏrĕ bārbām;

mūltă sŭpēr Laūsō rŏgĭtāt mūltūmquĕ rĕmīttīt,

quī rĕvŏcēnt maēstīquĕ fĕrānt māndātă părēntīs.840

Āt Laūsūm sŏcĭi ēxănĭmēm sŭpĕr ārmă fĕrēbānt

flēntēs, īngēntem ātque īngēntī vōlnĕrĕ vīctūm.

Ādgnōvīt lōngē gĕmĭtūm praēsāgă mălī mēns:

cānĭtĭēm mūltō dēfōrmāt pūlvĕre ĕt āmbās

ād caēlūm tēndīt pālmās ēt cōrpŏre ĭnhaērēt.845

"Tāntănĕ mē tĕnŭīt vīvēndī, nātĕ, vŏlūptās,

ūt prō me hōstīlī pătĕrēr sūccēdĕrĕ dēxtraē,

quēm gĕnŭī, tŭăne haēc gĕnĭtōr pēr vōlnĕră sērvōr,

mōrtĕ tŭā vīvēns? Heū, nūnc mĭsĕrō mĭhĭ dēmūm

ēxĭtĭum īnfēlīx, nūnc āltē vōlnŭs ădāctūm!850

Īdem ĕgŏ, nātĕ, tŭūm măcŭlāvī crīmĭnĕ nōmēn,

pūlsŭs ŏb īnvĭdĭām sŏlĭō scēptrīsquĕ pătērnīs.

Dēbŭĕrām pătrĭaē poēnās ŏdĭīsquĕ mĕōrūm:

ōmnīs pēr mōrtīs ănĭmām sōntem īpsĕ dĕdīssēm!

Nūnc vīvō nĕque ădhūc hŏmĭnēs lūcēmquĕ rĕlīnquō.855

Sēd līnquām." Sĭmŭl hōc dīcēns āttōllĭt ĭn aēgrūm

sē fĕmŭr ēt, quāmquām vīs āltō vōlnĕrĕ tārdāt,

haūd dēiēctŭs ĕquōm dūcī iŭbĕt. Hōc dĕcŭs īllī,

hōc sōlāmĕn ĕrāt: bēllīs hōc vīctŏr ăbībāt

ōmnĭbŭs. Ādlŏquĭtūr maērēntem ēt tālĭbŭs īnfīt:860

"Rhaēbĕ dĭū, rēs sī quă dĭū mōrtālĭbŭs ūlla ēst,

vīxĭmŭs. Aūt hŏdĭē vīctōr spŏlĭa īllă crŭēntă

ēt căpŭt Aēnēaē rĕfĕrēns Laūsīquĕ dŏlōrūm

ūltŏr ĕrīs mēcum aūt, ăpĕrīt sī nūllă vĭām vīs,

ōccūmbēs părĭtēr; nĕque ĕnīm, fōrtīssĭmĕ, crēdō865

iūssa ălĭēnă păti ēt dŏmĭnōs dīgnābĕrĕ Teūcrōs."

Dīxĭt ĕt ēxcēptūs tērgō cōnsuētă lŏcāvīt

mēmbră mănūsque āmbās iăcŭlīs ŏnĕrāvĭt ăcūtīs,

aērĕ căpūt fūlgēns crīstāque hīrsūtŭs ĕquīnā.

Sīc cūrsum īn mĕdĭōs răpĭdūs dĕdĭt: aēstŭăt īngēns870

ūno īn cōrdĕ pŭdōr mīxtōque īnsānĭă lūctū.

[Ēt fŭrĭīs ăgĭtātŭs ămōr ēt cōnscĭă vīrtūs.]

Ātque hīc Aēnēān māgnā tēr vōcĕ vŏcāvīt.

Aēnēās ādgnōvĭt ĕnīm laētūsquĕ prĕcātūr:

"Sīc pătĕr īllĕ dĕūm făcĭāt, sīc āltŭs Ăpōllŏ,875

īncĭpĭās cōnfērrĕ mănūm."

Tāntum ēffātŭs ĕt īnfēstā sŭbĭt ōbvĭŭs hāstā.

Īlle aūtēm: "Quīd me ērēptō, saēvīssĭmĕ, nātō

tērrēs? Haēc vĭă sōlă fŭīt, quā pērdĕrĕ pōssēs.

Nēc mōrtem hōrrēmūs nēc dīvōm pārcĭmŭs ūllī.880

Dēsĭnĕ, nām vĕnĭō mŏrĭtūrŭs ĕt haēc tĭbĭ pōrtō

dōnă prĭūs. Dīxīt tēlūmque īntōrsĭt ĭn hōstēm;

īnde ălĭūd sŭpĕr ātque ălĭūd fīgītquĕ vŏlātquĕ

īngēntī gŷrō, sēd sūstĭnĕt aūrĕŭs ūmbō.

Tēr cīrcum ādstāntēm laēvōs ĕquĭtāvĭt ĭn ōrbēs885

tēlă mănū iăcĭēns, tēr sēcūm Trōĭŭs hērōs

īnmānem aērātō cīrcūmfērt tēgmĭnĕ sīlvām.

Īnde ŭbĭ tōt trāxīssĕ mŏrās, tōt spīcŭlă taēdēt

vēllĕre ĕt ūrgētūr pūgnā cōngrēssŭs ĭnīquā,

mūltă mŏvēns ănĭmō iām tāndem ērūmpĭt ĕt īntēr890

bēllātōrĭs ĕquī căvă tēmpŏră cōnĭcĭt hāstā.

Tōllīt se ārrēctūm quădrŭpēs ēt cālcĭbŭs aūrās

vērbĕrăt ēffūsūmque ĕquĭtēm sŭpĕr īpsĕ sĕcūtūs

īmplĭcăt ēiēctōque īncūmbīt cērnŭŭs ārmō.

Clāmōre īncēndūnt caēlūm Trōēsquĕ Lătīnīque.895

Ādvŏlăt Aēnēās, vāgīnāque ērĭpĭt ēnsēm

ēt sŭpĕr haēc: "Ŭbĭ nūnc Mēzēntĭŭs ācĕr ĕt īllă

ēffĕră vīs ănĭmī?" Cōntrā Tŷrrhēnŭs, ŭt aūrās

sūspĭcĭēns haūsīt caēlūm mēntēmquĕ rĕcēpīt:

"Hōstĭs ămārĕ, quĭd īncrĕpĭtās mōrtēmquĕ mĭnārīs?900

Nūllum īn caēdĕ nĕfās, nēc sīc ād proēlĭă vēnī,

nēc tēcūm mĕŭs haēc pĕpĭgīt mĭhĭ foēdĕră Laūsūs.

Ūnum hōc pēr sī qua ēst vīctīs vĕnĭa hōstĭbŭs ōrō:

cōrpŭs hŭmā pătĭārĕ tĕgī. Scĭo ăcērbă mĕōrūm

cīrcūmstāre ŏdĭa: hūnc, ōrō, dēfēndĕ fŭrōrēm905

ēt mē cōnsōrtēm nātī cōncēdĕ sĕpūlcrō."

Haēc lŏquĭtūr iŭgŭlōque haūd īnscĭŭs āccĭpĭt ēnsēm

ūndāntīque ănĭmām dīffūndĭt ĭn ārmă crŭōrĕ.