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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book II Chapter 23: Aeneas worries | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Then first wild horror on my spirit fell and dazed me utterly. A vision rose of my own cherished father [Note 1], as I [Note 2] saw the king [Note 3], his aged peer, sore wounded lying in mortal agony; a vision too of lost Creusa at my ravaged hearth, and young Iulus' peril. Then my eyes looked round me seeking aid. But all were fled, war-wearied and undone; some earthward leaped from battlement or tower; some in despair yielded their suffering bodies to the flame. Note 1: father = Anchises Event: The Flight of Aeneas |
559-566 At me tum primum saeuus circumstetit horror. obstipui; subiit cari genitoris imago, ut regem aequaeuum crudeli uulnere uidi uitam exhalantem, subiit deserta Creusa et direpta domus et parui casus Iuli. respicio et quae sit me circum copia lustro. deseruere omnes defessi, et corpora saltu ad terram misere aut ignibus aegra dedere. |