Custom Search
| Home | Introduction | Persons | Geogr. | Sources | Events | Mijn blog(Nederlands) |
| Religion | Subjects | Images | Queries | Links | Contact | Do not fly Iberia |
|
Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 18: Aeneas breaks off the fight. Entellus declared winner | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
|
Then Sire Aeneas willed to make a stay to so much rage, nor let Entellus' soul flame beyond bound, but bade the battle pause, and, rescuing weary Dares, thus he spoke in soothing words: Ill-starred! What mad attempt is in thy mind? Will not thy heart confess thy strength surpassed, and auspices averse? Submit, for Heaven decrees! With such wise words he sundered the fell strife. But trusty friends bore Dares off: his spent limbs helpless trailed, his head he could not lift, and from his lips came blood and broken teeth. So to the ship they bore him, taking, at Aeneas' word, the helmet and the sword -- but left behind Entellus' prize of victory, the bull. He, then, elate and glorying, spoke forth: See, goddess-born, and all ye Teucrians, see, what strength was mine in youth, and from what death ye have delivered Dares. Saying so, he turned him full front to the bull, who stood for reward of the fight, and, drawing back his right hand, poising the dread gauntlet high, swung sheer between the horns and crushed the skull; a trembling, lifeless creature, to the ground the bull dropped forward dead. Above the fallen Entellus cried aloud, This victim due I give thee, Eryx, more acceptable than Dares' death to thy benignant shade. For this last victory and joyful day, my gauntlets and my art I leave with thee. Event: Aeneas on Sicily |
461-484 Tum pater Aeneas procedere longius iras et saeuire animis Entellum haud passus acerbis, sed finem imposuit pugnae fessumque Dareta eripuit mulcens dictis ac talia fatur: 'infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit? non uiris alias conuersaque numina sentis? cede deo.' dixitque et proelia uoce diremit. ast illum fidi aequales genua aegra trahentem iactantemque utroque caput crassumque cruorem ore eiectantem mixtosque in sanguine dentes ducunt ad nauis; galeamque ensemque uocati accipiunt, palmam Entello taurumque relinquunt. hic uictor superans animis tauroque superbus 'nate dea, uosque haec' inquit 'cognoscite, Teucri, et mihi quae fuerint iuuenali in corpore uires et qua seruetis reuocatum a morte Dareta.' dixit, et aduersi contra stetit ora iuuenci qui donum astabat pugnae, durosque reducta librauit dextra media inter cornua caestus arduus, effractoque inlisit in ossa cerebro: sternitur exanimisque tremens procumbit humi bos. ille super talis effundit pectore uoces: 'hanc tibi, Eryx, meliorem animam pro morte Daretis persoluo; hic uictor caestus artemque repono.' |