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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 23: Juno sends Iris to cause trouble | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Then fortune veered and different aspect wore. For 'ere the sacred funeral games are done, Saturnian Juno from high heaven sent down the light-winged Iris to the ships of Troy, giving her flight good wind -- still full of schemes and hungering to avenge her ancient wrong. Unseen of mortal eye, the virgin took her pathway on the thousand-colored bow, and o'er its gliding passage earthward flew. She scanned the vast assemblage; then her gaze turned shoreward, where along the idle bay the Trojan galleys quite unpeopled rode. But far removed, upon a lonely shore, a throng of Trojan dames bewailed aloud their lost Anchises, and with tears surveyed the mighty deep. O weary waste of seas! What vast, untravelled floods beyond us roll! So cried they with one voice, and prayed the gods for an abiding city; every heart loathed utterly the long, laborious sea. Then in their midst alighted, not unskilled in working woe, the goddess; though she wore nor garb nor form divine, but made herself one Beroe, Doryclus' aged wife, who in her happier days had lineage fair and sons of noble name; in such disguise she called the Trojan dames: |
604-622 Hinc primum Fortuna fidem mutata nouauit. dum uariis tumulo referunt sollemnia ludis, Irim de caelo misit Saturnia Iuno Iliacam ad classem uentosque aspirat eunti, multa mouens necdum antiquum saturata dolorem. illa uiam celerans per mille coloribus arcum nulli uisa cito decurrit tramite uirgo. conspicit ingentem concursum et litora lustrat desertosque uidet portus classemque relictam. at procul in sola secretae Troades acta amissum Anchisen flebant, cunctaeque profundum pontum aspectabant flentes. heu tot uada fessis et tantum superesse maris, uox omnibus una; urbem orant, taedet pelagi perferre laborem. ergo inter medias sese haud ignara nocendi conicit et faciemque deae uestemque reponit; fit Beroe, Tmarii coniunx longaeua Dorycli, cui genus et quondam nomen natique fuissent, ac sic Dardanidum mediam se matribus infert. |