Aeneid IV, 388-396 - Virgil: His medium dictis sermonem abrumpit, Saying these words she brought the dialogue abruptly to an end, et auras aegra fugit, seque ex oculis avertit et aufert, and feebly turned from him, ran indoors and took herself out of his sight. linquens multa metu conctantem et multa parantem dicere. she left him standing there, dreading to follow and yet with much still to say. Suscipiunt famulae, conlapsaque membre marmoreo referunt thalamo stratisque reponunt. Maids picked up the fainting queen and carried her into a marble chamber where they placed her upon the bed. At pius Aeneas, quamquam lenire dolentem solando cupit et dictis avertere curas Single-minded Aeneas was anxious to ease her hurt with solace and to say something to relieve her distress, multa gemens magnoque animum labefactus amore and sighed heavily; but even though his resolve was shaken by the strength of her feeling, jussa tamen divom exsequitur, classemque revisit. nevertheless he carried out the bidding of the gods and returned to his fleet. |