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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book IX Chapter 9: The plan is presented | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Now in all lands all creatures that have breath lulled care in slumber, and each heart forgot its load of toil and pain. But they who led the Teucrian cause, with all their chosen brave, took counsel in the kingdom's hour of need what action to command or whom dispatch with tidings to Aeneas. In mid-camp on long spears leaning and with ready shield to leftward slung, th' assembled warriors stood. Thither in haste arrived the noble pair, brave Nisus with Euryalus his friend, and craved a hearing, for their suit, they said, was urgent and well-worth a patient ear. Iulus to the anxious striplings gave a friendly welcome, bidding Nisus speak. The son of Hyrtacus obeyed: O, hear, Princes of Teucria, with impartial mind, nor judge by our unseasoned youth the worth of what we bring. Yon Rutule watch is now in drunken sleep, and all is silent there. With our own eyes we picked out a good place to steal a march, that cross-road by the gate close-fronting on the bridge. Their lines of fire are broken, and a murky, rolling smoke fills all the region. If ye grant us leave by this good luck to profit, we will find Aeneas and the walls of Palatine, and after mighty slaughter and huge spoil ye soon shall see us back. Nor need ye fear we wander from the way. Oft have we seen that city's crest loom o'er the shadowy vales, where we have hunted all day long and know each winding of yon river. Event: Sortie of Nisus and Euryalis |
224-245 Cetera per terras omnis animalia somno laxabant curas et corda oblita laborum: ductores Teucrum primi, delecta iuuentus, consilium summis regni de rebus habebant, quid facerent quisue Aeneae iam nuntius esset. stant longis adnixi hastis et scuta tenentes castrorum et campi medio. tum Nisus et una Euryalus confestim alacres admittier orant: rem magnam pretiumque morae fore. primus Iulus accepit trepidos ac Nisum dicere iussit. tum sic Hyrtacides: 'audite o mentibus aequis Aeneadae, neue haec nostris spectentur ab annis quae ferimus. Rutuli somno uinoque soluti conticuere. locum insidiis conspeximus ipsi, qui patet in biuio portae quae proxima ponto. interrupti ignes aterque ad sidera fumus erigitur. si fortuna permittitis uti quaesitum Aenean et moenia Pallantea, mox hic cum spoliis ingenti caede peracta adfore cernetis. nec nos uia fallit euntis: uidimus obscuris primam sub uallibus urbem uenatu adsiduo et totum cognouimus amnem.' |