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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 1: Council of the Gods | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Meanwhile Olympus, seat of sovereign sway, threw wide its portals, and in conclave fair the Sire of gods and King of all mankind summoned th' immortals to his starry court, whence, high-enthroned, the spreading earth he views -- and Teucria's camp and Latium's fierce array. Beneath the double-gated dome the gods were sitting; Jove himself the silence broke: O people of Olympus, wherefore change your purpose and decree, with partial minds in mighty strife contending? I refused such clash of war 'twixt Italy and Troy. Whence this forbidden feud? What fears seduced to battles and injurious arms either this folk or that? Th' appointed hour for war shall be hereafter -- speed it not! -- When cruel Carthage to the towers of Rome shall bring vast ruin, streaming fiercely down the opened Alp. Then hate with hate shall vie, and havoc have no bound. Till then, give o'er, and smile upon the concord I decree! Events: The Gods interfere in the Aeneid, The Council of the Gods regarding Aeneas |
1-15 Panditur interea domus omnipotentis Olympi conciliumque uocat diuum pater atque hominum rex sideream in sedem, terras unde arduus omnis castraque Dardanidum aspectat populosque Latinos. considunt tectis bipatentibus, incipit ipse: 'caelicolae magni, quianam sententia uobis uersa retro tantumque animis certatis iniquis? abnueram bello Italiam concurrere Teucris. quae contra uetitum discordia? quis metus aut hos aut hos arma sequi ferrumque lacessere suasit? adueniet iustum pugnae (ne arcessite) tempus, cum fera Karthago Romanis arcibus olim exitium magnum atque Alpis immittet apertas: tum certare odiis, tum res rapuisse licebit. nunc sinite et placitum laeti componite foedus.' |