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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 31: The Gods watch the fight | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Thus Mars relentless holds in equal scale slaughters reciprocal and mutual woe; the victors and the vanquished kill or fall in equal measure; neither knows the way to yield or fly. Th' Olympians look down out of Jove's house, and pity as they see the unavailing wrath of either foe, and burdens measureless on mortals laid. Lo! Venus here, Saturnian Juno yon, in anxious watch; while pale Tisiphone moves on infuriate through the battling lines. On strode Mezentius o'er the gory plain, and swollen with rage waved wide his awful spear. Like tall Orion when on foot he goes trough the deep sea and lifts his shoulders high above the waves; or when he takes his path aIong the mountain-tops, and has for staff an aged ash-tree, as he fixes firm his feet in earth and hides his brows in cloud; -- so loomed Mezentius with his ponderous arms. Events: The Gods interfere in the Aeneid, Aeneas relieves the siege of the Trojan camp |
755-768 Iam grauis aequabat luctus et mutua Mauors funera; caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant uictores uictique, neque his fuga nota neque illis. di Iouis in tectis iram miserantur inanem amborum et tantos mortalibus esse labores; hinc Venus, hinc contra spectat Saturnia Iuno. pallida Tisiphone media inter milia saeuit. At uero ingentem quatiens Mezentius hastam turbidus ingreditur campo. quam magnus Orion, cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei stagna uiam scindens, umero supereminet undas, aut summis referens annosam montibus ornum ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit, talis se uastis infert Mezentius armis. |