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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VI Chapter 9: Funeral of Misenus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Meanwhile the Trojans on the doleful shore Bewailed Misenus, and brought tribute there Of grief's last gift to his unheeding clay. First, of the full-sapped pine and well-hewn oak A lofty pyre they build; then sombre boughs Around it wreathe, and in fair order range Funereal cypress; glittering arms are piled High over all; on blazing coals they lift Cauldrons of brass brimmed o'er with waters pure; And that cold, lifeless clay lave and anoint With many a moan and cry; on their last couch The poor, dead limbs they lay, and mantle o'er With purple vesture and familiar pall. Then in sad ministry the chosen few, With eyes averted, as our sires did use, Hold the enkindling torch beneath the pyre They gather up and burn the gifts of myrrh, The sacred bread and bowls of flowing oil; And when in flame the dying embers fall, On thirsty ash they pour the streams of wine. Good Corynaeus, in an urn of brass the gathered relics hides; and three times round, With blessed olive branch and sprinkling dew, Purges the people with ablution cold, In lustral rite; oft chanting, Hail! Farewell! Faithful Aeneas for his comrade built A mighty tomb, and dedicated there Trophy of arms, with trumpet and with oar, Beneath a windy hill, which now is called "Misenus," -- for all time the name to bear. Event: Aeneas visits the Underworld |
212-235 Nec minus interea Misenum in litore Teucri flebant et cineri ingrato suprema ferebant. principio pinguem taedis et robore secto ingentem struxere pyram, cui frondibus atris intexunt latera et feralis ante cupressos constituunt, decorantque super fulgentibus armis. pars calidos latices et aena undantia flammis expediunt, corpusque lauant frigentis et unguunt. fit gemitus. tum membra toro defleta reponunt purpureasque super uestis, uelamina nota, coniciunt. pars ingenti subiere feretro, triste ministerium, et subiectam more parentum auersi tenuere facem. congesta cremantur turea dona, dapes, fuso crateres oliuo. postquam conlapsi cineres et flamma quieuit, reliquias uino et bibulam lauere fauillam, ossaque lecta cado texit Corynaeus aeno. idem ter socios pura circumtulit unda spargens rore leui et ramo felicis oliuae, lustrauitque uiros dixitque nouissima uerba. at pius Aeneas ingenti mole sepulcrum imponit suaque arma uiro remumque tubamque monte sub aerio, qui nunc Misenus ab illo dicitur aeternumque tenet per saecula nomen. |