Aeneid Book 4 Lines 160-218, 259-304 – Flashcards

Meanwhile the sky begins to be mixed with a great murmur, the cloud follows mixed with hail

both the Carthaginian comrades and the Trojan young men all about and the Trojan grandson of Venus have sought different shelters through the fields because of fear; the rivers rush from the mountains

Dido and the Trojan leader arrive at the same cave

Both Primal Earth and Juno matron of honor give the signal; the fires flashed and the upper air privy to the wedding and the Nymphs howl from the highest peak

That day was the day of death and the first cause of evils; for is Dido moved neither by appearance or by reputation and no longer does she contemplate a hidden love:

she calls it marriage, by this name she cloaks her guilt

Suddenly Rumor goes through the great cities of Libya. Rumor, than which not any evil is more swift

If flourishes with speed and acquires force in the going. At first small because of fear, soon it lifts itself into the skies and it proceeds on the ground and hides its head between the clouds

The mother earth bore that one having been vexed with the anger of the gods, as they say, she bears the sister to Coeus and Encelado swift with feet and on swift wings.

A horrible monster, huge, to whom there are as many feathers on the body as watchful eyes underneath (wonderful to tell), so many tongues, so many mouths roar, it raises as many ears

At night it flies in the middle of the sky and the earth, rustling through the shadow, nor does it turn aside its eyes in sweet sleep

It sits as a guard by day, either on the top of the highest roof or on the high towers and it terrifies great cities a messenger as tenacious of falsehood and wrong as of the truth.

This one rejoicing was filling the peoples with manifold conversations, and she was singing things done and not done equally.

(she was singing) that Aeneas had come sprung from Trojan blood, to which man beautiful Dido deems herself worthy to join.

Now, they were cherishing the winter among themselvesin excess, unmindful of their kingdoms and having been captured by shameful love. The loathesome goddess spreads these things into the lips of men everywhere.

Immediately she turns her course to King Iarbas and she kindles his spirit with words and increases his angers.

This one having been begotten by Jupiter/Hammon, a Garamantian nymph having been ravished, placed 100 huge temples to Jove in his spacious kingdoms and (he placed) 100 altars and he had consecrated a watchful flame, the eternal watchfire of the gods, and there was ground fertile with the blood of cattle (chiasmus) and blossoming thresholds with different garlands.

And he (Iarbas) mad in spirit and inflamed by the bitter rumor before the altars amongst the divine presences of the gods is said to have beseeched Juppiter many things with hands upturned as a suppliant

Allmighty Juppiter to whom now the Moorish race having feasted on embroidered couches pours out the Bacchic honors, do you see these things?

Or father, do we shudder in vain when you hurl thunderbolts, and do hidden fires in the clouds terrify spirits and they mix vain murmurs?

The woman, who, wandering, placed a petty city in our borders for a price, to whom we gave a shore to be plowed and to whom (we gave) the laws of the place, she rejected our marriage and received lord Aeneas into her kingdom

And now that Paris, with his effeminate retinue, having had his chin tied beneath with an Asiatic cap and hair dripping (with perfume) gains the plunder/booty

indeed we bear tributes for your temples and we keep alive a baseless reputation (in your power)

As first, he touched the huts with winged heels, he sees Aeneas building citadels and renewing houses.

And to that one there was a sword starred with tawny jasper and his cloak was burning with Tyrian purple having been dropped from the shoulders, a gift which rich Dido had made, and she had separated the textile with delicate gold

Immediately he addresses "Now you place the foundations of high Carthage and hen pecked do you build up a beautiful city? Alas you having forgotten the kingdom and your obligations

The ruler of the gods himself sends me down to you from bring Olympus, who hurls the sky and land with divine power. He himself orders me to bear these mandates through the swift skies

Why do you build? Or with what hope do you waste your leisure for the libyan lands? If no glory of such great matters move you. (neither do you further undertake work with/for your praise)

Look at Ascanius rising and the hope of successor Iulus to whom the kingdom of Italy and the Roman land is owed.

Mercury having spoken with such a mouth he abandoned a mortal sight in the middle of his speech and he vanished into the thin air far away from eyes

But in truth frenzied Aeneas stood speechless because of the sight and hair was stood on end in horror and his voice clung to his throat.

He burns to depart in flight and to leave behind the sweet lands, struck by such warning and the order of the gods

Alas what would he do? And by what speech would be dare to go around the burning queen? Which first words might he take?

And he divides his swift mind now to here now to there and he snatches it into various parts and turns it through all things

This opinion seemed better to the one wavering. He calls Mnesthus, Sergestus, and brave Serestus. Silent, they equip the fleet and they muster comrades to the shores.

to prepare the arms and to conceal what the cause of making new the matters is; Meanwhile, since the best Dido does not know and she hopes such great loves are not broken

He will try an approach and what times are the most mild for speaking, what way is right for matters. Happy, all obey the order swifter and they fulfilled the commands.

But the queen suspected frauds (who would be able to cheat one loving) she first took up the movements about to be, and dreading first all things no matter how safe. The same wicked Rumor reported to the frantic one that the fleet was being armed and that the course was being prepared.

Needy of spirit, having been enflamed through the whole city she rushes wildly, like Thyias having been excited, sacred things having been moved, where the triennial rituals spur, when the cry of Bacchus is heard, and nocturnal Cithaeron cries with a shout

Finally she addresses Aeneas by these words voluntarily.