Richard Hunter
UCL
Aeneid XI 587-596
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verum age , quandoquidem fatis urgetur acerbis ,
labere , nympha , polo finisque invise Latinos ,
tristis ubi infausto committitur omine pugna .
haec cape et ultricem pharetra deprome sagittam :
hac , quicumque sacrum violarit vulnere corpus ,
Tros Italusque , mihi pariter det sanguine poenas .
post ego nube cava miserandae corpus et arma
inspoliata feram tumulo patriaeque reponam . '
dixit , at illa levis caeli delapsa per auras
insonuit nigro circumdata turbine corpus .
labere , nympha , polo finisque invise Latinos ,
tristis ubi infausto committitur omine pugna .
haec cape et ultricem pharetra deprome sagittam :
hac , quicumque sacrum violarit vulnere corpus ,
Tros Italusque , mihi pariter det sanguine poenas .
post ego nube cava miserandae corpus et arma
inspoliata feram tumulo patriaeque reponam . '
dixit , at illa levis caeli delapsa per auras
insonuit nigro circumdata turbine corpus .
Come
now
,
nymph
,
since
bitter
fate
drives
her
on
,
slip from the sky and seek out the Latin borders ,
where with evil omen they join in sad battle .
Take these weapons and draw an avenging arrow from the quiver ,
and if anyone violates her sacred flesh by wounding her ,
Trojan or Italian , pay me with their equal punishment in blood .
Then I’ll carry the body and untouched weapons of the poor girl
in a cavernous cloud to a sepulchre , and bury her in her own land . ’
She spoke , and Opis slid down with a sound through
heaven’s light air , her body veiled in a dark whirlwind .
slip from the sky and seek out the Latin borders ,
where with evil omen they join in sad battle .
Take these weapons and draw an avenging arrow from the quiver ,
and if anyone violates her sacred flesh by wounding her ,
Trojan or Italian , pay me with their equal punishment in blood .
Then I’ll carry the body and untouched weapons of the poor girl
in a cavernous cloud to a sepulchre , and bury her in her own land . ’
She spoke , and Opis slid down with a sound through
heaven’s light air , her body veiled in a dark whirlwind .