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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book IV Chapter 24: Aeneas sails | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Aeneas, by that fleeting vision struck with an exceeding awe, straightway leaped forth from slumber's power, and to his followers cried : Awake, my men! Away! Each to his place upon the thwarts! Unfurl at once the sails! A god from heaven a second time sent down urges our instant flight and bids us cut the twisted cords. Whatever be thy name, behold, we come, O venerated Power! Again with joy we follow! Let thy grace assist us as we go! And may thy power bring none but stars benign across our sky. So saying, from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with naked blade striking the hawsers free. Like ardor seized on all his willing men, who raced and ran; and, while their galleys shadowed all the sea, clean from the shore they scudded, with strong strokes sweeping the purple waves and crested foam. |
571-583 Tum uero Aeneas subitis exterritus umbris corripit e somno corpus sociosque fatigat praecipitis: 'uigilate, uiri, et considite transtris; soluite uela citi. deus aethere missus ab alto festinare fugam tortosque incidere funis ecce iterum instimulat. sequimur te, sancte deorum, quisquis es, imperioque iterum paremus ouantes. adsis o placidusque iuues et sidera caelo dextra feras.' dixit uaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum strictoque ferit retinacula ferro. idem omnis simul ardor habet, rapiuntque ruuntque; litora deseruere, latet sub classibus aequor, adnixi torquent spumas et caerula uerrunt. |