Friday, September 21, 2007

Aeneid lines 1.124-41 (class translation)

Meanwhile Neptune felt the sea being mixed with a great noise and the sent storm and the calm waters poured up from the lowest depths and (was) seriously moved; and looking out from the deep, he lifted his serene head out of the water top. He sees the scattered fleet of Aeneas over the whole sea, and the Trojans crushed by the waves and the ruin of the sky, and the tricks and angers of Juno did not elude her brother. He calls Eurus and Zephyr to himself (and) thence says such words: Did such faith in your kind hold you? Do you dare, winds, to mix now the sky and the earth without my authority and to bear up such masses? Why I—but it is better to settle the moving waves. Afterwards you will pay me with not like punishments for your actions. Hasten your flight, and tell these things to your king: command of the sea and the savage trident were not given to him by lot, but to me. That man holds the huge rocks, your homes, Eurus; let Aeolus vaunt himself in those halls, and let him rule in the closed prison of the winds.

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