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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VII Chapter 20: Turnus summons his army | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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So kindled he Alecto's wrath to flame; and even as he spoke a shudder thrilled the warrior's body, and his eyeballs stood stonily staring at the hydra hair which hissed and writhed above the grisly head of the large-looming fiend. With eyes of fire horribly rolling, she repelled him far, while he but faltered speechless. She upraised two coiling snakes out of her tresses, cracked the lashes of her scourge, and wrathfully, with raving lips replied: “Look well on me, gone to decay and dotage of old age! And mocked with foolish fear while kings contend! Wilt hearken now! Behold me, hither flown from where my sister-furies dwell! My hands bring bloody death and war.” She spoke, and hurled her firebrand at the hero, thrusting deep beneath his heart her darkly smouldering flame. Then horror broke his sleep, and fearful sweat dripped from his every limb. He shrieked aloud for arms; and seized the ready arms that lay around his couch and hall. Then o'er his soul the lust of battle and wild curse of war broke forth in angry power, as when the flames of faggots round the bubbling cauldron sing, and up the waters leap; the close-kept flood brims over, streaming, foaming, breaking bound, and flings thick clouds in air. He, summoning his chieftains, bade them on Latinus move, break peace, take arms, and, over Italy their shields extending, to thrust forth her foe: himself for Teucrian with Latin joined was more than match. He called upon the gods in witness of his vows: while, nothing loth, Rutulia's warriors rushed into array; some by his youth and noble beauty moved, some by his kingly sires and fame in arms. Events: The Gods interfere in the Aeneid, Preparations for war between the Trojans and Latium. |
445-474 Talibus Allecto dictis exarsit in iras. at iuueni oranti subitus tremor occupat artus, deriguere oculi: tot Erinys sibilat hydris tantaque se facies aperit; tum flammea torquens lumina cunctantem et quaerentem dicere plura reppulit, et geminos erexit crinibus anguis, uerberaque insonuit rabidoque haec addidit ore: 'en ego uicta situ, quam ueri effeta senectus arma inter regum falsa formidine ludit. respice ad haec: adsum dirarum ab sede sororum, bella manu letumque gero.' sic effata facem iuueni coniecit et atro lumine fumantis fixit sub pectore taedas. olli somnum ingens rumpit pauor, ossaque et artus perfundit toto proruptus corpore sudor. arma amens fremit, arma toro tectisque requirit; saeuit amor ferri et scelerata insania belli, ira super: magno ueluti cum flamma sonore uirgea suggeritur costis undantis aeni exsultantque aestu latices, furit intus aquai fumidus atque alte spumis exuberat amnis, nec iam se capit unda, uolat uapor ater ad auras. ergo iter ad regem polluta pace Latinum indicit primis iuuenum et iubet arma parari, tutari Italiam, detrudere finibus hostem; se satis ambobus Teucrisque uenire Latinisque. haec ubi dicta dedit diuosque in uota uocauit, certatim sese Rutuli exhortantur in arma. hunc decus egregium formae mouet atque iuuentae, hunc ataui reges, hunc claris dextera factis. |