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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book III Chapter 20: To Italy | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Forth o'er the seas we sped and kept our course nigh the Ceraunian headland, where begins the short sea-passage unto Italy. Soon sank the sun, while down the shadowed hills stole deeper gloom; then making shore, we flung our bodies on a dry, sea-bordering sand, couched on earth's welcome breast; the oars were ranged in order due; the tides of slumber dark o'erflowed our lives. But scarce the chariot of Night, on wings of swift, obedient Hours, had touched the middle sky, when wakeful sprang good Palinurus from his pillowed stone: with hand at ear he caught each airy gust and questioned of the winds; the gliding stars he called by name, as onward they advanced through the still heaven; Arcturus he beheld, the Hyades, rain-bringers, the twin Bears, and vast Orion girt in golden arms. He blew a trumpet from his ship; our camp stirred to the signal for embarking; soon we rode the seas once more with swelling sail. Event: The wanderings of Aeneas |
506-520 Prouehimur pelago uicina Ceraunia iuxta, unde iter Italiam cursusque breuissimus undis. sol ruit interea et montes umbrantur opaci; sternimur optatae gremio telluris ad undam sortiti remos passimque in litore sicco corpora curamus, fessos sopor inrigat artus. necdum orbem medium Nox Horis acta subibat: haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus et omnis explorat uentos atque auribus aera captat; sidera cuncta notat tacito labentia caelo, Arcturum pluuiasque Hyadas geminosque Triones, armatumque auro circumspicit Oriona. postquam cuncta uidet caelo constare sereno, dat clarum e puppi signum; nos castra mouemus temptamusque uiam et uelorum pandimus alas. |