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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 26: Juno deceives Turnus to save his live | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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She [Note 1] ceased; and swiftly from the peak of heaven moved earthward, trailing cloud-wrack through the air, and girdled with the storm. She took her way to where Troy's warriors faced Laurentum's line. There of a hollow cloud the goddess framed a shape of airy, unsubstantial shade, Aeneas' image, wonderful to see, and decked it with a Dardan lance and shield, a crested helmet on the godlike head; and windy words she gave of soulless sound, and motion like a stride -- such shapes, they say, the hovering phantoms of the dead put on, or empty dreams which cheat our slumbering eyes. Forth to the front of battle this vain shade stalked insolent, and with its voice and spear challenged the warrior. At it Turnus flew, and hurled a hissing spear with distant aim; the thing wheeled round and fled. The foe forthwith, thinking Aeneas vanquished, with blind scorn flattered his own false hope: Where wilt thou fly, Aeneas? Wilt thou break a bridegroom's word? This sword will give thee title to some land thou hast sailed far to find! So clamoring loud he followed, flashing far his naked sword; nor saw the light winds waft his dream away. Note 1: she = Juno |
633-652 Haec ubi dicta dedit, caelo se protinus alto misit agens hiemem nimbo succincta per auras, Iliacamque aciem et Laurentia castra petiuit. tum dea nube caua tenuem sine uiribus umbram in faciem Aeneae (uisu mirabile monstrum) Dardaniis ornat telis, clipeumque iubasque diuini adsimulat capitis, dat inania uerba, dat sine mente sonum gressusque effingit euntis, morte obita qualis fama est uolitare figuras aut quae sopitos deludunt somnia sensus. at primas laeta ante acies exsultat imago inritatque uirum telis et uoce lacessit. instat cui Turnus stridentemque eminus hastam conicit; illa dato uertit uestigia tergo. tum uero Aenean auersum ut cedere Turnus credidit atque animo spem turbidus hausit inanem: 'quo fugis, Aenea? thalamos ne desere pactos; hac dabitur dextra tellus quaesita per undas.' talia uociferans sequitur strictumque coruscat mucronem, nec ferre uidet sua gaudia uentos. |