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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XII Chapter 16: Further killings of Turnus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Elsewhere Eumedes through a throng of foes to battle rode, the high-born Dolon's child, famous in war, who bore his grandsire's [Note 1] name, but seemed in might and courage like his sire: that prince, who reconnoitring crept so near the Argive camp, he dared to claim for spoil the chariot of Achilles; but that day great Diomed for such audacious deed paid wages otherwise, -- and he no more dreamed to possess the steeds of Peleus' son. When Turnus recognized in open field this warrior, though far, he aimed and flung his javelin through the spacious air; then stayed his coursers twain, and, leaping from his car, found the wretch helpless fallen; so planted he his foot upon his neck, and from his hand wrested the sword and thrust it glittering deep in the throat, thus taunting as he slew: There's land for thee, thou Trojan! Measure there th' Hesperian provinces thy sword would find. Such reward will I give to all who dare draw steel on me; such cities they shall build. To bear him company his spear laid low Asbytes, Sybaris, Thersilochus, Chloreus and Dares, and Thymoetes thrown sheer off the shoulders of his balking steed. As when from Thrace the north wind thunders down the vast Aegean, flinging the swift flood against the shore, and where his blasts assail the cloudy cohorts vanish out of heaven: so before Turnus, where his path he clove, the lines fell back, the wheeling legions fled. The warrior's own wild impulse swept him on, and every wind that o'er his chariot blew shook out his plume in air. But such advance so bold, so furious, Phegeus could not brook, but, fronting the swift chariot's path, he seized the foam-flecked bridles of its coursers wild, while from the yoke his body trailed and swung; the broad lance found his naked side, and tore his double corselet, pricking lightly through the outer flesh; but he with lifted shield still fought his foe and thrust with falchion bare; but the fierce pace of whirling wheel and pole flung him down prone, and stretched him on the plain. Then Turnus, aiming with relentless sword between the corselet's edge and helmet's rim struck off his whole head, leaving on the sands the mutilated corpse. Note 1: grandsire = Eumedes Event: Renewal of the war. |
346-382 Parte alia media Eumedes in proelia fertur, antiqui proles bello praeclara Dolonis, nomine auum referens, animo manibusque parentem, qui quondam, castra ut Danaum speculator adiret, ausus Pelidae pretium sibi poscere currus; illum Tydides alio pro talibus ausis adfecit pretio nec equis aspirat Achilli. hunc procul ut campo Turnus prospexit aperto, ante leui iaculo longum per inane secutus sistit equos biiugis et curru desilit atque semianimi lapsoque superuenit, et pede collo impresso dextrae mucronem extorquet et alto fulgentem tingit iugulo atque haec insuper addit: 'en agros et, quam bello, Troiane, petisti, Hesperiam metire iacens: haec praemia, qui me ferro ausi temptare, ferunt, sic moenia condunt.' huic comitem Asbyten coniecta cuspide mittit Chloreaque Sybarimque Daretaque Thersilochumque et sternacis equi lapsum ceruice Thymoeten. ac uelut Edoni Boreae cum spiritus alto insonat Aegaeo sequiturque ad litora fluctus, qua uenti incubuere, fugam dant nubila caelo: sic Turno, quacumque uiam secat, agmina cedunt conuersaeque ruunt acies; fert impetus ipsum et cristam aduerso curru quatit aura uolantem. non tulit instantem Phegeus animisque frementem obiecit sese ad currum et spumantia frenis ora citatorum dextra detorsit equorum. dum trahitur pendetque iugis, hunc lata retectum lancea consequitur rumpitque infixa bilicem loricam et summum degustat uulnere corpus. ille tamen clipeo obiecto conuersus in hostem ibat et auxilium ducto mucrone petebat, cum rota praecipitem et procursu concitus axis impulit effunditque solo, Turnusque secutus imam inter galeam summi thoracis et oras abstulit ense caput truncumque reliquit harenae. |