Aeneid Translation I.402-519

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 * 1) She spoke, and turning aside, she shined with her pink neck,
 * 2) and her immortal hair breathed* a divine fragrance from (*syncopated verb form.)
 * 3) her head; her clothing flowed down to the bottom of her feet;
 * 4) and a true goddess was evident in her stride*. When that man (*ablative of respect. See Uses of the ablative.)
 * 5) recognized his fleeing mother, he followed her with such speech:
 * 6) "Why do you, cruel, also deceive your son with false
 * 7) shapes* so many times? Why is it not allowed to join right hand (*ablative of means or manner.)
 * 8) to right hand and to hear and return true voices?"
 * 9) He chides her with such words and aims his step to the walls.
 * 10) But Venus enclosed the proceeding men* with dark air, (*substantive; "men" supplied.)
 * 11) and the goddess poured around them with much robe of cloud*, (*genitive of material.)
 * 12) so that anyone might not be able to see them and that he
 * 13) might not be able to touch them or make a delay or demand the causes of coming*. (*gerund; objective genitive.)
 * 14) She herself, uplifted, goes away to Paphos and, happy, she revisits her
 * 15) seats, where her* temple (is) and a hundred altars burn with (*dative of possession)
 * 16) Sabaean incense and are fragrant with fresh wreaths.
 * 17) Meanwhile, they hastened on the road, in any way the path shows.
 * 18) And now, they were climbing the hill, which, very much,
 * 19) overhangs the city* and looks at** the opposite citadels from above. (*dative with special verb; **personification.)
 * 20) Aeneas wonders at a mass, at some time huts;
 * 21) he wonders at the gates and the noise and pavements of the streets.
 * 22) The eager Tyrians press on: part to extend* the walls (*complementary infinitive with "instant".)
 * 23) and to make* the citadel and to roll up* rocks with their hands; (*still complementary infinitives with "instant")
 * 24) part to choose* a place for a house** and to enclose it* with a ditch*** (*complementary infinitives with "instant"; **dative of purpose; ***ablative of means.)
 * 25) they choose laws and magistrates and a holy senate.
 * 26) Here, some dig out ports; here, others place the foundations for theaters* (*dative of purpose.),
 * 27) and they cut out immense columns,
 * 28) high ornaments for the stages about to be, from rocks.
 * 29) Such work busies bees in a new summer through the flowery country
 * 30) beneath the sun, when they lead forth the grown offspring of the race,
 * 31) or when they stow flowing honeys
 * 32) and stretch cells with sweet nectar,
 * 33) or receive the burdens of coming bees, or, after a
 * 34) procession is made, keep off a lazy herd, the drones, from the hives* (*ablative of separation)
 * 35) the work boils and sweet-smelling honeys are fragrant with thyme.
 * 36) "O blessed ones, whose walls now rise!"
 * 37) Aeneas says and looks up at the summits of the city.
 * 38) He bears himself in, enclosed in a cloud (marvelous to say*) (*supine; ablative of respect.)
 * 39) throught he middle of the men, and he mingles with the men and is not seen by any* (*dative of agent.).
 * 40) A grove, very fertile of shade*, was in the middle of the city (*genitive special adjective.)
 * 41) in which place the Phoenicians, tossed by waves and a whirlpool, first dug out a sign, which royal Juno
 * 42) had shown, the head of a fierece horse, that indeed the race was
 * 43) going to be remarkable in war in this way and easy to live through the ages.
 * 44) Here, Sidonian Dido was building a huge temple for Juno,
 * 45) rich in gifts* and in the divinity* of the goddess, (*both ablative of respect.
 * 46) on whose steps bronze thresholds were rising and beams had been fastened
 * 47) with bronze, (and) the hinge was creaking on the bronze doors.
 * 48) In this grove, first, a new thing presented soothed fear;
 * 49) here, Aeneas first dared to hope for safety
 * 50) and to trust better in shattered affairs.
 * 51) For a while, he surveys separate things beneath the huge temple,
 * 52) waiting for the queen, while he wonders at what the fortune for the city is
 * 53) and the hands of the artists among themselves and the labor of their works* (*objective genitive.)
 * 54) he sees Trojan battles according to order
 * 55) and wars now made known through the whole world with a story,
 * 56) the sons of Atreus and Priam and Achilles harsh to both*. (*dative of reference with "saevum".)
 * 57) He halted, and crying, said, "Now what place, Acates,
 * 58) what region on the lands is not full of our hardship*? (*genitive with special adjective.)
 * 59) Behold Priam. Even glory* has its prizes here (*dative of possession);
 * 60) there are compassions of affairs* and mortal woes touch the mind. (*objective genitive.)
 * 61) Loosen (your) fears; this story will bring some safety to you."
 * 62) He speaks in this way and feeds his soul with the idle picture,
 * 63) lamenting many things, and he wets his face with a plentiful river.
 * 64) For he was seeng how battling Greeks were fleeing* around the citadel of Troy
 * 65) here, Trojan youth was pursuing*, Phyrgians were fleeing* (*NOT purpose clause. These are all indirect question.)
 * 66) there, and plumed Achilles was pressing on in a chariot.