lines 581-596 Flashcards
multae illam frustra Tyrrhena per oppida matres
optavere nurum;
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Throughout the Etruscan towns, many mothers wished in vain for her as a daughter-in-law
sola contenta Diana aeternum telorum et virginitatis amorem intemerata colit.
happy with Diana alone, undefiled, she cultivated an ever-lasting love of weapons and chastity
vellem haud correpta fuisset militia tali
I would wish that she had not been carried away by such military service
conata lacessere Teucros:
[when] she tried to provoke the Trojans
cara mihi comitumque foret nunc una mearum.
she would [now] be dear to me and one of my companions.
verum age, quandoquidem fatis urgetur acerbis,
But come, since indeed she is oppressed by grievous fates
labere, nympha, polo finisque invise Latinos,
glide down from heaven, Nymph and visit the Latin territory
tristis ubi infausto committitur omine pugna.
where an unhappy battle is being joined with an unlucky omen.
haec cape et ultricem pharetra deprome sagittam:
Take these [weapons] and pull out an avenging arrow from the quiver.
hac, quicumque sacrum violarit vulnere corpus,
with this, whoever violates her sacred body with a wound
Tros Italusque, mihi pariter det sanguine poenas.
Trojan or Italian, let him equally pay the penalty to me with his blood
post ego nube cava miserandae corpus et arma inspoliata feram tumulo patriaeque reponam.’
Afterwards, in a hollow cloud, I will bear the body of the pitiable girl to the tomb and her weapons which will not be plundered and I will restore [her] to her native land.
dixit, at illa levis caeli delapsa per auras insonuit
She finished speaking but she [Opis] resounded
nigro circumdata turbine corpus
as she glided down through the light breezes of the sky surrounding her body with a black whirlwind.
