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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book IV Chapter 18: Aeneas is not persuaded | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Such plaints, such prayers, again and yet again, betwixt the twain the sorrowing sister [Note 1] bore. But no words move, no lamentations bring persuasion to his [Note 2] soul; decrees of Fate oppose, and some wise god obstructs the way that finds the hero's ear. Oft-times around the aged strength of some stupendous oak the rival blasts of wintry Alpine winds smite with alternate wrath loud is the roar, and from its rocking top the broken boughs are strewn along the ground; but to the crag steadfast it ever clings; far as toward heaven its giant crest uprears, so deep below its roots reach down to Tartarus: -- not less the hero by unceasing wail and cry is smitten sore, and in his mighty heart has many a pang, while his serene intent abides unmoved, and tears gush forth in vain. Note 1: sister = Anna Event: Love and Death of Dido |
437-449 Talibus orabat, talisque miserrima fletus fertque refertque soror. sed nullis ille mouetur fletibus aut uoces ullas tractabilis audit; fata obstant placidasque uiri deus obstruit auris. ac uelut annoso ualidam cum robore quercum Alpini Boreae nunc hinc nunc flatibus illinc eruere inter se certant; it stridor, et altae consternunt terram concusso stipite frondes; ipsa haeret scopulis et quantum uertice ad auras aetherias, tantum radice in Tartara tendit: haud secus adsiduis hinc atque hinc uocibus heros tunditur, et magno persentit pectore curas; mens immota manet, lacrimae uoluuntur inanes. |