Lines 362-398 Flashcards
What happens in lines 308-361?
Turnus gets ready and the battle begins. Fighting between Aeneas and Latins (ranks of farmers). He asks Achates for spears, with which he then kills Maeon.
at parte ex alia
but elsewhere
qua…intulerat torrens
where a torrent had carried forward
saxa rotantia late
rocks, rolling along far and wide
arbustaque diruta ripis
and trees torn up from river banks
Arcadas…ut vidit Pallas
Pallas, when he saw his Arcadians
insuetos acies inferre pedestres
not used to carrying forward the battle-lines on foot
Latio dare terga sequaci
turning their backs to the pursuing Latins
natura loci…quando
since the nature of the place
aspera aquis
roughened by the waters
dimittere…suasit equos
persuaded them to release their horses
unum quod…restat
the one thing that remained
rebus…egenis
in dire necessity
nunc prece, nunc dictis…amaris
now with a prayer, now with bitter words
virtutem accendit
he fired up their courage
quo fugitis socii?
where are you fleeing to, comrades?
per vos et fortia facta
by you and your brave deeds
per ducis Euandri nomen
by the name of Evander our leader
devictaque bella
and the wars you have won
spemque meam…quae
and by my hope, which
aemula
aspiring to equal
patriae…laudi
my father’s renown
nunc subit
now rises
fidite ne pedibus
do not trust in your feet
rumpenda…est via
you must carve a path
ferro…per hostes
with your swords through the enemy
qua globus ille virum
where that knot of men
densissimus urget
presses most densely
hac…reposcit
in this direction…demands
patria alta
your glorious fatherland
vos et Pallanta ducem
you and your leader Pallas
numina nulla premunt
no divinities are pressing on us
urgemur…mortales
we mortals are being assailed