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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 32: Neptune promises a safe journey to Italy | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Then Saturn's son [Note 1], the ruler of the seas profound, replied: Queen [Note 2] of Cythera, it is meet for thee to trust my waves from which thyself art sprung. Have I not proved a friend, and oft restrained the anger and wild wrath of seas and skies? On land, let Simois and Xanthus tell if I have loved Aeneas! On that day Achilles drove the shuddering hosts of Troy in panic to the walls, and hurled to death innumerable foes, until the streams were choked with dead, and Xanthus scarce could find his wonted path to sea; that self-same day, Aeneas, spent, and with no help of Heaven, met Peleus' dreadful son: -- who else but I in cloudy mantle bore him safe afar? Though t was my will to cast down utterly the walls of perjured Troy, which my own hands had built beside the sea. And even to-day my favor changes not. Dispel thy fear! Safe, even as thou prayest, he shall ride to Cumae's haven, where Avernus lies. One only sinks beneath th' engulfing seas, -- one life in lieu of many. Having soothed and cheered her heart divine, the worshipped sire flung o'er his mated steeds a yoke of gold, bridled the wild, white mouths, and with strong hand shook out long, loosened reins. His azure car skimmed light and free along the crested waves; before his path the rolling billows all were calm and still, and each o'er-swollen flood sank neath his sounding wheel; while from the skies the storm-clouds fled away. Behind him trailed a various company; vast bulk of whales, the hoary band of Glaucus, Ino's son, Palaemon and the nimble Tritons all, the troop of Phorcus; and to leftward ranged Thalia, Thetis, and fair Melite, with virgin Panopea, and the nymphs Nesaea, Spio and Cymodoce. Note 1: son = Neptune Events: Aeneas on Sicily, The Gods interfere in the Aeneid, Aeneas and Achilles |
799-826 tum Saturnius haec domitor maris edidit alti: 'fas omne est, Cytherea, meis te fidere regnis, unde genus ducis. merui quoque; saepe furores compressi et rabiem tantam caelique marisque. nec minor in terris, Xanthum Simoentaque testor, Aeneae mihi cura tui. cum Troia Achilles exanimata sequens impingeret agmina muris, milia multa daret leto, gemerentque repleti amnes nec reperire uiam atque euoluere posset in mare se Xanthus, Pelidae tunc ego forti congressum Aenean nec dis nec uiribus aequis nube caua rapui, cuperem cum uertere ab imo structa meis manibus periurae moenia Troiae. nunc quoque mens eadem perstat mihi; pelle timores. tutus, quos optas, portus accedet Auerni. unus erit tantum amissum quem gurgite quaeres; unum pro multis dabitur caput.' his ubi laeta deae permulsit pectora dictis, iungit equos auro genitor, spumantiaque addit frena feris manibusque omnis effundit habenas. caeruleo per summa leuis uolat aequora curru; subsidunt undae tumidumque sub axe tonanti sternitur aequor aquis, fugiunt uasto aethere nimbi. tum uariae comitum facies, immania cete, et senior Glauci chorus Inousque Palaemon Tritonesque citi Phorcique exercitus omnis; laeua tenet Thetis et Melite Panopeaque uirgo, Nisaee Spioque Thaliaque Cymodoceque. |