Virgil Aeneid VI : 679 - 712 Translation

Question 1

ad pater Anchises penitus convalle virenti inclusas animas superumque ad lumen ituras lustrabat studio recolens,

Answer 1

But father Anchises, deep in a green valley, was surveying the souls shut in and about to go to the light above, surveying them with eagerness,

Question 2

omnemque suorum forte recensebat numerum carosque nepotes, fataque fortunasque virum moresque manusque

Answer 2

and by chance he was considering the whole number of his people and his dear descendants, and the fates and fortunes of men and their customs and deeds

Question 3

isque ubi tendentem adversum per gramina videt Aenean, alacris palmas utrasque tetendi, effusaeque genis lacrimae, et vox excidit ore:

Answer 3

And we saw Aeneas striding towards him across the grass, he excitedly reached put both his palms and tears poured over his cheeks and a cry escaped from his mouth:

Question 4

“venisti tandem, tuaque exspectata parenti vicit iter durum pietas?

Answer 4

Have you come at last and has your devotion, long awaited by your parent, conquered the hard journey?

Question 5

datur ora tueri, nate, tua, et notas audire et reddere voces?

Answer 5

Is it allowed, son, to look at your face, and to hear and respond to familiar voices?

Question 6

sic equidem ducebam animo rebarque futurum, tempora dinumerans “ nec me mea cura fefellit.

Answer 6

I, for my part, was considering it in my mind, and thinking it would happen, counting down the time, and my concern did not deceive me.

Question 7

quas ego te terras et quanta per aequora vectum accipio! quantis iactatum, nate, periclis!

Answer 7

I receive you, carried over what lands and across how great seas! Tossed by how great dangers, son!

Question 8

quam metui, ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent !”

Answer 8

How I feared that the kingdoms of Libya would harm you somehow!”

Question 9

ille autem:”tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago, saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit:

Answer 9

But he said “Your ghost, father, your sad ghost, rather often appearing, compelled me to reach these doorways:

Question 10

stant sale Tyrrheno classes. da iungere dextram, da, genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.”

Answer 10

the fleets stand in the Tuscan sea. Allow me to hold your hand, allow it Father, and don’t withdraw yourself from my embrace.”

Question 11

sic memorans, largo fletu simul ora rigabat.

Answer 11

Speaking thus, he was wetting his face at the same time with much weeping.

Question 12

ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum,

Answer 12

He tried three times to put his arms around his neck there

Question 13

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago

Answer 13

three times the image clasped in vain escaped his hands,

Question 14

par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno

Answer 14

like the light winds and very similar to a winged dream

Question 15

interea videt Aeneas in valle reducta seclusum nemus et virgulta sonantia silvis

Answer 15

Meanwhile in a remote valley, Aeneas sees a secluded grove and undergrowth rustling in the woods,

Question 16

Lethaeumque, domos placidas qui praenatat, amnem,

Answer 16

and the river Lethe which flows past peaceful homes.

Question 17

hunc circum innumerae gentes populique volabant;

Answer 17

around it countless tribes and people were flying;

Question 18

ac - velut in pratis ubi apes aestate serena floribus insidunt variis, et candida circum lilia funduntur

Answer 18

and - just as when the bees in the meadows in the calm summer settle on various flowers, and swarm around the white lilies -

Question 19

strepit omnis murmure campus

Answer 19

the whole plain hums with their murmur.

Question 20

horrescit visu subito, causaque requirit inscius Aeneas, quae sint ea flumina porro, quive viri tanto complerint agmine ripas

Answer 20

Aeneas shudders at the sudden sight, an asks the reasons, not knowing what those rivers, far away, are, or who are the men who have filled the banks with such a great crowd