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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book I Chapter 21: Aeneas does not recognize her | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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So Venus spoke, and Venus' son [Note 1] replied: No voice or vision of thy sister fair has crossed my path, thou maid without a name! Thy beauty seems not of terrestrial mould, nor is thy music mortal! Tell me, goddess, art thou bright Phoebus' sister [Note 2]? Or some nymph, the daughter of a god? Whate'er thou art, thy favor we implore, and potent aid in our vast toil. Instruct us of what skies, or what world's end, our storm-swept lives have found! Strange are these lands and people where we rove, compelled by wind and wave. Lo, this right hand shall many a victim on thine altar slay! Note 1: son = Aeneas Events: The Gods interfere in the Aeneid, The wanderings of Aeneas |
325-334 Sic Venus; et Veneris contra sic filius orsus: 'Nulla tuarum audita mihi neque visa sororum— O quam te memorem, virgo? Namque haud tibi voltus mortalis, nec vox hominem sonat: O, dea certe— an Phoebi soror? an nympharum sanguinis una?— sis felix, nostrumque leves, quaecumque, laborem, et, quo sub caelo tandem, quibus orbis in oris iactemur, doceas. Ignari hominumque locorumque erramus, vento huc vastis et fluctibus acti: multa tibi ante aras nostra cadet hostia dextra.' |