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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 9: More allies: Ocnus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Next Ocnus summoned forth a war-host from his native shores, the son of Tiber, Tuscan river, and the nymph Manto, a prophetess: he gave good walls, O Mantua, and his mother's name, to thee, -- to Mantua so rich in noble sires, but of a blood diverse, a triple breed, four stems in each; and over all enthroned she rules her tribes: her strength is Tuscan born. Hate of Mezentius armed against his name five hundred men: upon their hostile prow was Mincius in a cloak of silvery sedge, -- Lake Benacus the river's source and sire. Last good Aulestes smites the depths below, with forest of a hundred oars: the flood like flowing marble foams; his Triton prow threatens the blue waves with a trumpet-shell; far as the hairy flanks its form is man, but ends in fish below -- the parting waves beneath the half-brute bosom break in foam. Such chosen chiefs in thirty galleys ploughed the salt-wave, bringing help to Trojan arms. |
198-214 Ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris, fatidicae Mantus et Tusci filius amnis, qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen, Mantua diues auis, sed non genus omnibus unum: gens illi triplex, populi sub gente quaterni, ipsa caput populis, Tusco de sanguine uires. hinc quoque quingentos in se Mezentius armat, quos patre Benaco uelatus harundine glauca Mincius infesta ducebat in aequora pinu. it grauis Aulestes centenaque arbore fluctum uerberat adsurgens, spumant uada marmore uerso. hunc uehit immanis Triton et caerula concha exterrens freta, cui laterum tenus hispida nanti frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit aluus, spumea semifero sub pectore murmurat unda. Tot lecti proceres ter denis nauibus ibant subsidio Troiae et campos salis aere secabant. |