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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VII Chapter 38: Turnus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Lo, Turnus strides conspicuous in the van, full armed, of mighty frame, his lordly head high o'er his peers emerging! His tall helm with flowing triple crest for ensign bears Chimaera, whose terrific lips outpour volcanic fires; where'er the menace moves of her infernal flames and wrathful frown, there wildest flows the purple flood of war. On his smooth shield deep graven in the gold is horned Io -- wondrous the device! -- a shaggy heifer-shape the maiden shows; Argus is watching her, while Inachus pours forth his river from the pictured urn. A storm of tramping troops, to Turnus sworn, throngs all the widespread plain with serried shields: warriors of Argos, and Auruncan bands, Sicani, Rutuli, Sacranian hosts, Labicum's painted shields; all who till thy woodland vales, O Tiber! or the shore Numicius hallows; all whose ploughs upturn Rutulia's hills, or that Circaean range where Jove of Anxur guards, and forests green make fair Feronia glad; where lie the fens of Satura, and Ufens' icy wave through lowland valleys seeks his seaward way. Events: Preparations for war between the Trojans and Latium., Affair of Zeus and Io |
783-802 Ipse inter primos praestanti corpore Turnus uertitur arma tenens et toto uertice supra est. cui triplici crinita iuba galea alta Chimaeram sustinet Aetnaeos efflantem faucibus ignis; tam magis illa fremens et tristibus effera flammis quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae. at leuem clipeum sublatis cornibus Io auro insignibat, iam saetis obsita, iam bos, argumentum ingens, et custos uirginis Argus, caelataque amnem fundens pater Inachus urna. insequitur nimbus peditum clipeataque totis agmina densentur campis, Argiuaque pubes Auruncaeque manus, Rutuli ueteresque Sicani, et Sacranae acies et picti scuta Labici; qui saltus, Tiberine, tuos sacrumque Numici litus arant Rutulosque exercent uomere collis Circaeumque iugum, quis Iuppiter Anxurus aruis praesidet et uiridi gaudens Feronia luco; qua Saturae iacet atra palus gelidusque per imas quaerit iter uallis atque in mare conditur Vfens. |