The goddess already then both nourishes and cherishes that this city be the ruling power for the peoples, if fate should allow it with anything. Here were the arms, here the chariot of that one. “Has pride in your birth so gained control of you? Do you now dare, winds, without command of mine, to mingle earth and sky, and raise confusion thus? Whom I-! But better it is to calm the troubled waves: hereafter with another penalty shall you pay me for your crimes.There was an ancient city (Tyrian colonists held it), Carthage, opposite Italy and far from the mouth of the Tiber, rich of resources and most fierce in pursuits of war, which alone Juno is said to cherish more than all the lands, Samo having been excepted. East Wind and West he calls before him, then speaks thus: He sees Aeneas’ fleet scattered over all the sea, the Trojans overwhelmed by the waves and by the falling heavens, nor did Juno’s wiles and wrath escape her brother’s eye. Greatly troubled was he, and gazing out over the deep he raised a composed countenance above the water’s surface. Meanwhile Neptune saw the sea in a turmoil of wild uproar, the storm let loose and the still waters seething up from their lowest depths. Now the stout ship of Ilioneus, now of brave Achates, and that wherein Abas sailed and that of aged Aletes, the storm has mastered with side joints loosened, all let in the hostile flood and gape at every seam. Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss, with weapons of men, planks, and Trojan treasure amid the waves.
The helmsman is dashed out and hurled head foremost, but the ship is thrice on the same spot whirled round and round by the wave and engulfed in the sea’s devouring eddy.
One, which bore the Lycians and loyal Orontes, before the eyes of Aeneas a mighty toppling wave strikes astern. Three the East forces from the deep into shallows and sandbanks, a piteous sight, dashes on shoals and girds with a mound of sand. Three ships the South Wind catches and hurls on hidden rocks-rocks the Italians call the Altars, rising amidst the waves, a huge ridge topping the sea. 270Ĭrest to others the yawning sea shows ground beneath the waves the surges seethe with sand. Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc talia fatur: “Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri? iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti, miscere et tantas audetis tollere moles? 135 quos ego-! sed motos praestat componere fluctus: post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis. 130 nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et irae. disiectam Aeneae toto videt aequore classem, fluctibus oppressos Troas caelique ruina. Interea magno misceri murmure pontum 125 emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus et imis stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus et alto prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda. 120 iam validam Ilionei navem, iam fortis Achatae, et qua vectus Abas, et qua grandaevus Aletes, vicit hiems laxis laterum compagibus omnes accipiunt inimicum imbrem rimisque fatiscunt. apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, arma virum tabulaeque et Troïa gaza per undas. unam, quae Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten, ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus 115 in puppim ferit excutitur pronusque magister volvitur in caput ast illam ter fluctus ibidem torquet agens circum et rapidus vorat aequore vertex. tris Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet (saxa vocant Itali, mediis quae in fluctibus, Aras, 110 dorsum immane mari summo), tris Eurus ab alto in brevia et syrtis urget (miserabile visu) inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae. Terram inter fluctus aperit furit aestus harenis.
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