Aeneid page 3 Flashcards
vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti, et spumas salis aere ruebant, cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore volnus
they were hardly out of sight of Sicily’s Isle, in deeper water, joyfully spreading sail, bronze keel ploughing froth of the brine, when Juno, nursing the eternal wound in her breast.
haec secum: “mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia teucrorum avertere regem? quippe vetor fatis.
spoke to herself: “Am I to abandon my purpose, conquered, unable to turn the Teurcrian king away from Italy! Why the fates forbid it.
Pallasne exurere classem Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, unius ob noxam et furias Aicis Oilei?
wasn’t Pallas able to burn the Arigive fleet, to sink it in the sea, because of the guilt and madness of one single man, Ajax, son of Oileus?
ipsa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem, disiecitique rates evertique aequora ventis, illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto.
she herself hurled Jupiter’s swift fire from the clouds, scattered the ships, and made the sea boil with storms: She caught him up in a waterspout, as he breathed flame from his pierced chest, and pinned him to a sharp rock
ast ego, quae divom incedo regina, Iovisque et soror et coniunx, una cum gente tot annos bella gero! et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret praeterea, aut supplex aris imponet honorem?”
yet I, who walk about as queen of the gods, wife and sister of love, wage war on a whole race, for so many years. Indeed, will anyone worship Juno’s power from now on, or place offerings, humbly, on her altars?”
