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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book X Chapter 32: Aeneas injures Mezentius | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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To match him [Note 1] now, Aeneas, looking down the long array of war, came forth in arms to challenge and defy. But quailing not, a mass immovable, the other stood waiting his noble foe, and with a glance measured to cast his spear the space between. May this right hand, he said, and this swift spear which here I poise, be favoring gods for me! The spoils from yonder robber's carcase stripped I vow to hang on thee, my Lausus, thou shalt stand for trophy of Aeneas slain. He said, and hurled from far the roaring spear, which from the shield glanced off, and speeding still smote famed Antores 'twixt the loin and side -- Antores, friend of Hercules, who came from Argos, and had joined Evander's cause, abiding in Italia. Lo, a wound meant for another pierced him, and he lay, ill-fated! looking upward to the light, and dreaming of dear Argos as he died. Then good Aeneas hurled his spear; it passed through hollow orb of triple bronze, and through layers of flax and triple-twisted hides; then in the lower groin it lodged, but left its work undone. Aeneas, not ill-pleased to see the Tuscan wounded, swiftly drew the falchion from his thigh, and hotly pressed his startled foe. But Lausus at the sight groaned loud, so much he loved his father dear, and tears his cheek bedewed. Note 1: him = Mezentius |
769-790 huic contra Aeneas speculatus in agmine longo obuius ire parat. manet imperterritus ille hostem magnanimum opperiens, et mole sua stat; atque oculis spatium emensus quantum satis hastae: 'dextra mihi deus et telum, quod missile libro, nunc adsint! uoueo praedonis corpore raptis indutum spoliis ipsum te, Lause, tropaeum Aeneae.' dixit, stridentemque eminus hastam iecit. at illa uolans clipeo est excussa proculque egregium Antoren latus inter et ilia figit, Herculis Antoren comitem, qui missus ab Argis haeserat Euandro atque Itala consederat urbe. sternitur infelix alieno uulnere, caelumque aspicit et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos. tum pius Aeneas hastam iacit; illa per orbem aere cauum triplici, per linea terga tribusque transiit intextum tauris opus, imaque sedit inguine, sed uiris haud pertulit. ocius ensem Aeneas uiso Tyrrheni sanguine laetus eripit a femine et trepidanti feruidus instat. ingemuit cari grauiter genitoris amore, ut uidit, Lausus, lacrimaeque per ora uolutae— |