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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book II Chapter 27: Aeneas finds his father | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Soon came I [Note 1] to my father's [Note 2] ancient seat, our home and heritage. But lo! my sire (whom first of all I sought, and first would bear to safe asylum in the distant hills) vowed he could never, after fallen Troy, live longer on, or bear an exile's woe. "O you", he cried, "whose blood not yet betrays the cruel taint of time, whose powers be still unpropped and undecayed, go, take your flight. If heavenly wrath had willed my life to spare, this dwelling had been safe. It is too much that I have watched one wreck, and for too long outlived my vanquished country. Thus, O, thus! Compose these limbs for death, and say farewell. My own hand will procure it; or my foe will end me of mere pity, and for spoil will strip me bare. It is an easy loss to have no grave. For many a year gone by, accursed of Heaven, I tarry in this world a useless burden, since that fatal hour when Jove, of gods the Sire and men the King, his lightnings o'er me breathed and blasting fire. Note 1: I = Aeneas Events: The Flight of Aeneas, Venus and Anchises |
634-649 Atque ubi iam patriae peruentum ad limina sedis antiquasque domos, genitor, quem tollere in altos optabam primum montis primumque petebam, abnegat excisa uitam producere Troia exsiliumque pati. 'uos o, quibus integer aeui sanguis,' ait, 'solidaeque suo stant robore uires, uos agitate fugam. me si caelicolae uoluissent ducere uitam, has mihi seruassent sedes. satis una superque uidimus excidia et captae superauimus urbi. sic o sic positum adfati discedite corpus. ipse manu mortem inueniam; miserebitur hostis exuuiasque petet. facilis iactura sepulcri. iam pridem inuisus diuis et inutilis annos demoror, ex quo me diuum pater atque hominum rex fulminis adflauit uentis et contigit igni.' |