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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XII Chapter 11: Juturna spreads rumors | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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But to Rutulian eyes th' approaching joust seemed all ill-matched; and shifting hopes and fears disturbed their hearts the closer they surveyed th' unequal risks: still worse it was to see how Turnus, silent and with downcast eyes, dejectedly drew near the place of prayer, worn, pale, and wasted in his youthful bloom. The nymph Juturna, with a sister's fear, noted the growing murmur, and perceived how all the people's will did shift and change; she went from rank to rank, feigning the shape of Camers, scion of illustrious line, with heritage of valor, and himself dauntless in war; unceasingly she ran from rank to rank, spreading with skilful tongue opinions manifold, and thus she spoke: Will ye not blush, Rutulians, so to stake one life for many heroes? Are we not their match in might and numbers? O, behold those Trojan sons of Heaven making league with exiled Arcady; see Tuscan hordes storming at Turnus. Yet we scarce could find one foe apiece, forsooth, if we should dare fight them with half our warriors. Of a truth your champion brave shall to those gods ascend before whose altars his great heart he vows; and lips of men while yet on earth he stays will spread his glory far. Ourselves, instead, must crouch to haughty masters, and resign this fatherland upon whose fruitful fields we dwell at ease. Events: The Duel of Turnus and Aeneas, The Gods interfere in the Aeneid |
216-237 At uero Rutulis impar ea pugna uideri iamdudum et uario misceri pectora motu, tum magis ut propius cernunt non uiribus aequos. adiuuat incessu tacito progressus et aram suppliciter uenerans demisso lumine Turnus pubentesque genae et iuuenali in corpore pallor. quem simul ac Iuturna soror crebrescere uidit sermonem et uulgi uariare labantia corda, in medias acies formam adsimulata Camerti, cui genus a proauis ingens clarumque paternae nomen erat uirtutis, et ipse acerrimus armis, in medias dat sese acies haud nescia rerum rumoresque serit uarios ac talia fatur: 'non pudet, o Rutuli, pro cunctis talibus unam obiectare animam? numerone an uiribus aequi non sumus? en, omnes et Troes et Arcades hi sunt, fatalisque manus, infensa Etruria Turno: uix hostem, alterni si congrediamur, habemus. ille quidem ad superos, quorum se deuouet aris, succedet fama uiuusque per ora feretur; nos patria amissa dominis parere superbis cogemur, qui nunc lenti consedimus aruis.' |