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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book II Chapter 29: Creusa wants to join Aeneas in battle | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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I [Note 1] clasped my sword-belt round me once again, fitted my left arm to my shield, and turned to fly the house; but at the threshold clung Creusa to my knees, and lifted up Iulus to his father's arms. "If thou wouldst rush on death," she cried, "O, suffer us to share thy perils with thee to the end. But if this day's work bid thee trust a sword, defend thy hearthstone first. Who else shall guard thy babe Iulus, or thy reverend sire? [Note 2] Or me, thy wife that was -- what help have I?" Note 1: I = Aeneas Event: The Flight of Aeneas |
671-678 Hinc ferro accingor rursus clipeoque sinistram insertabam aptans meque extra tecta ferebam. ecce autem complexa pedes in limine coniunx haerebat, paruumque patri tendebat Iulum: 'si periturus abis, et nos rape in omnia tecum; sin aliquam expertus sumptis spem ponis in armis, hanc primum tutare domum. cui paruus Iulus, cui pater et coniunx quondam tua dicta relinquor?' |