Passage 6 Flashcards
/ et iam finis erat,
/ And now there was an end,
cum Iuppiter aethere summo/ despiciens mare velivolum terrasque iacentis/ litoraque et latos populos,
, when Jupiter from the upper air, looking down on the sail strewn sea and the outlying lands and the shores and the far flung races,
, sic vertice caeli / constitit,
, thus he halted at the edge of heaven,
, et Libyae defixit lumina regnis. /
, and fixed his eyes on the kingdom of Libya.
/ atque illum talis iactantem pectore curas / tristior et lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentis / adloquitur Venus:
. / And Venus addresses him as he is turning over such cares in his heart, [she is] saddened with eyes welling up with glistening tears: