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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 11: Aeneas lands | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Now holds he full in view his Trojans and their fortress, as he stands upon his towering ship. With his left hand he lifts his radiant shield; then from the wall the Dardan warriors send a battle-cry that echoes to the stars, as kindling hope their rage renews. A flight of spears they hurl: t was like the cranes of Strymon, through dark clouds each other calling, when they cleave the skies vociferous, outwinging as they fly the swift south winds -- loud music them pursues. Amazement on Ausonia's captains fell and Turnus, as they gazed. But soon they saw ships pointing shoreward and the watery plain all stirring with a fleet. Aeneas' helm uplifted its bright peak, -- like streaming flame the crimson crest; his shield of orbed gold poured forth prodigious fire: it seemed as when in cloudless night a comet's blood-red beam makes mournful splendor, or the Dog-star glows, which rises to bring drought and pestilence to hapless men, and with ill-omened ray saddens the sky. Events: Aeneas returns to the Trojan camp, Aeneas relieves the siege of the Trojan camp |
260-275 Iamque 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 Strymoniae dant signa grues atque aethera tranant cum sonitu, fugiuntque Notos clamore secundo. at Rutulo regi ducibusque ea mira uideri Ausoniis, donec uersas ad litora puppis respiciunt totumque adlabi classibus aequor. ardet apex capiti cristisque a uertice flamma funditur et uastos umbo uomit aureus ignis: non secus ac liquida si quando nocte cometae sanguinei lugubre rubent, aut Sirius ardor ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris nascitur et laeuo contristat lumine caelum. |