I_415to440

Aeneid I. 415 to 440
415 Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit, sedesque revisit
She herself departs on high to Paphos, and she, happy, revisits her seats /
homes,
416 laeta suas, ubi templum illi, centumque Sabaeo
where there is to her a temple, and one hundred alters are burning with
Sabaean incense
417 ture calent arae, sertisque recentibus halant.
and breathe forth with fresh garlands.
418 Corripuere viam interea, qua semita monstrat.
Meanwhile they snatch the way/road, whereby the path shows (itself).
syncope
419 Iamque ascendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi
And now they were ascending the hill, which hangs very greatly over the city,
420 imminet, adversasque aspectat desuper arces.
and which ooks at the opposite citadels from above.
421 Miratur molem Aeneas, magalia quondam,
Aeneas admires the structure, once huts,
422 miratur portas strepitumque et strata viarum.
he admires the harbors and the noise and the pavements of the roads.
asyndeton
423 Instant ardentes Tyrii pars ducere muros,
The eager Tyrians urge on: part of them extended walls,
Historical Infinitive
424 molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa,
and made the citadel and rolled rocks with their hands,
425 pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco;
part of them chose the place for the building and enclosed it with a trench;
426 iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum.
they choose the magistrates and the laws and the holy senate.
Virgilian Triplet
427 Hic portus alii effodiunt; hic alta theatri
Here some dig out the harbor; here others place the deep fondations of the
theatre,
428 fundamenta locant alii, immanesque columnas
and they cut out huge columns from the crags,
429 rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.
tall decorations for the future stages.
430 Qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura
Just as work busies bees in the new summer through the country regions under
Epic Simile
the sun,
431 exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos
when they lead forth the grown offspring of the race,
432 educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella
or when they stow the flowing honey
anaphora
(polysyndeton)
433 stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas,
and stretch the cells with sweet nectar,
434 aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto
or they accept the burdens of the ones coming, or they keep off with the made
battleline
435 ignavum fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent:
the drones, the lazy swarm, from the hives:
436 fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella.
the work heats up, the fragrant honey smells of thyme.
437 “O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!'
“O fortunate ones, whose walls now rise!”
438 Aeneas ait, et fastigia suspicit urbis.
Aeneas says, and looks at the summits of the city.
439 Infert se saeptus nebula, mirabile dictu,
He bears himself forth enclosed in the cloud, wonderful to say,
supine
440 per medios, miscetque viris, neque cernitur ulli.
through the middle, and mixes with the men, and is not seen by/to anybody.