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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 23: Aeneas kills some more | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Soon to fresh fight came Caeculus, a child of Vulcan's line, and Umbro on the Marsic mountains bred: these met the Trojan's wrath. His sword shore off Anxur's left hand, and the whole orbed shield dropped earthward at the stroke: though Anxur's tongue had boasted mighty things, as if great words would make him strong, and lifting his proud heart as high as heaven, had hoped perchance to see gray hairs and length of days. Then Tarquitus strode forth, exulting in his burnished arms (Him Dryope, the nymph, to Faunus bore), and dared oppose Aeneas' rage. But he drew back his lance and, charging, crushed at once corselet and ponderous shield; then off he struck the supplicating head, which seemed in vain preparing speech; while o'er the reeking corpse the victor stood, and thrusting it away spoke thus with wrathful soul: Now lie thou there, thou fearsome sight! No noble mother's hand shall hide thee in the ground, or give those limbs to their ancestral tomb. Thou shalt be left to birds of ravin; or go drifting far along yon river to engulfing seas, where starving fishes on those wounds shall feed. Antaeus next and Lucas he pursues, though all in Turnus' van; and Numa bold and Camers tawny-tressed, the son and heir of Volscens the stout-hearted, whose domain surpassed the richest of Ausonia's lords, when over hushed Amyclae he was king. Like old Aegaeon of the hundred arms, the hundred-handed, from whose mouths and breasts blazed fifty fiery blasts, as he made war with fifty sounding shields and fifty swords against Jove's thunder; -- so Aeneas raged victorious o'er the field, when once his steel warmed to its work. But lo, he turns him now where come Niphaeus' bold-advancing wheels and coursers four, who, when at furious speed they faced his giant stride and dreadful cry, upreared in panic, and reversing spilled their captain to the ground, and bore away the chariot to the river's distant shore. |
543-574 Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus Caeculus et ueniens Marsorum montibus Vmbro. Dardanides contra furit: Anxuris ense sinistram et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem (dixerat ille aliquid magnum uimque adfore uerbo crediderat, caeloque animum fortasse ferebat canitiemque sibi et longos promiserat annos); Tarquitus exsultans contra fulgentibus armis, siluicolae Fauno Dryope quem nympha crearat, obuius ardenti sese obtulit. ille reducta loricam clipeique ingens onus impedit hasta, tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis dicere deturbat terrae, truncumque tepentem prouoluens super haec inimico pectore fatur: 'istic nunc, metuende, iace. non te optima mater condet humi patrioque onerabit membra sepulcro: alitibus linquere feris, aut gurgite mersum unda feret piscesque impasti uulnera lambent.' protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni, persequitur, fortemque Numam fuluumque Camertem, magnanimo Volcente satum, ditissimus agri qui fuit Ausonidum et tacitis regnauit Amyclis. Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem pectoribusque arsisse, Iouis cum fulmina contra tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret ensis: sic toto Aeneas desaeuit in aequore uictor ut semel intepuit mucro. quin ecce Niphaei quadriiugis in equos aduersaque pectora tendit. atque illi longe gradientem et dira frementem ut uidere, metu uersi retroque ruentes effunduntque ducem rapiuntque ad litora currus. |