Chunk Two Flashcards
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His accensa super, iactos aequore toto Troas, reliquias Danuam atque immitis Achilli, arcebat longe Latino, multosque per annos errabant, acti fatis, maria omnia circum. Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem! Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti, et spumas salis aere ruebant, cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, haec secum: “mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem? Quippe vetor fatis. Pallasne exurere classem Argivum atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, unius ob noxam et furias, Aiacis Oilei? Ipsa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem, disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis, illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto. Ast ego, quae divum incendo regina, Iovisque et soror et coniunx, una cum gente tot annos bella gero! Et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret praeterea, aut supplex aris imponet honorem?”
Inflamed by these things as well, she was keeping the Trojans, who had been thrown around over the whole sea (those left behind by the Greeks and ruthless Achilles) far from Latium, and they were wandering for many years, driven by the fates around all the seas. It was such a great task to found the Roman race! Scarcely out of sight of the land of Sicily, they were joyfully setting sail into the open sea, and they were churning the spray of the salat with their bronze prow, when Juno, always nursing her wound deep in her heart, said these things to herself: “Am I, defeated, ceasing from my endeavours, not able to keep the king of the Trojans from Italy? I am forbidden, to be sure, by the fates. Was Pallas able to burn up the fleet of the Argives and drown themselves in the sea on account of the offence and madness of one man - Oilean Ajax? She herself hurled the swift fire of Jupiter from the clouds, and scattered the vessels and stirred up the seas with the winds, and him, breathing flames from his pierced chest, she snatched up a whirlwind and pinned him on a sharp rock, But I, who go about as queen of the gods, and both sister and wife of Jupiter, am waging war on one race for so many years! And will anyone worship the power of Juno in the future, or place a sacrifice on my altars as a suppliant?
