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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XI Chapter 32: Turnus leaves the ambush | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Meanwhile th' unpitying messenger had flown to Turnus in the wood; the warrior heard from Acca of the wide confusion spread, the Volscian troop destroyed, Camilla slain, the furious foe increasing, and, with Mars to help him, grasping all, till in that hour far as the city-gates the panic reigned. Then he in desperate rage ( cruel power decreed it) from the ambushed hills withdrew and pathless wild. He scarce had passed beyond to the bare plain, when forth Aeneas marched along the wide ravine, climbed up the ridge, and from the dark, deceiving grove stood clear. Then swiftly each with following ranks of war moved to the city-wall, nor wide the space that measured 'twixt the twain. Aeneas saw the plain with dust o'erclouded, and the lines of the Laurentian host extending far; Turnus, as clearly, saw the war array of dread Aeneas, and his ear perceived loud tramp of mail-clad men and snorting steeds. Soon had they sped to dreadful shock of arms, hazard of war to try; but Phoebus now, glowing rose-red, had dipped his wearied wheel deep in Iberian seas, and brought back night above the fading day. So near the town both pitch their camps and make their ramparts strong. |
896-915 Interea Turnum in siluis saeuissimus implet nuntius et iuueni ingentem fert Acca tumultum: deletas Volscorum acies, cecidisse Camillam, ingruere infensos hostis et Marte secundo omnia corripuisse, metum iam ad moenia ferri. ille furens (et saeua Iouis sic numina poscunt) deserit obsessos collis, nemora aspera linquit. uix e conspectu exierat campumque tenebat, cum pater Aeneas saltus ingressus apertos exsuperatque iugum siluaque euadit opaca. sic ambo ad muros rapidi totoque feruntur agmine nec longis inter se passibus absunt; ac simul Aeneas fumantis puluere campos prospexit longe Laurentiaque agmina uidit, et saeuum Aenean agnouit Turnus in armis aduentumque pedum flatusque audiuit equorum. continuoque ineant pugnas et proelia temptent, ni roseus fessos iam gurgite Phoebus Hibero tingat equos noctemque die labente reducat. considunt castris ante urbem et moenia uallant. |