(line 100) Where mighty Sarpedon lies, where the shields and helmets of men and
the brave bodies of all, snatched up by the Simois, roll under the waves!?”
Such things having been said to those being tossed by Aequilus, (the South Wind),
The opposite Gale, roaring, strikes the sail, the waves wise (them) to the heavens.
The oars are broken, then the prow turns away and the side gives to the waves,
a towering mountain is followed by a mass of water.
These men hang in the wave; the sea, splitting, opens the ground between waves
for these men, the tide rages with sands.
The South Wind twisted three carried-off (ships) into cliffs
(In Italy they call the cliffs Altars, which (are) in the middle (of the) sea, the reef
at the very surface of the immense sea), The East wind forces three (ships)
from the deep (sea) into the shallows and sandbars, piteous to behold,
and dashes (them) against the shallows and encircles (them) with a mound of sand.
The sea strikes one (ship), which faithful Lycian Orontes was carrying, from high above,
before the eyes of the master (Aeneas) into the ship,
The master is cast out (of the ship) and rolled headlong,
however the sea turns that (ship), driving (it) three times around the same place,
and the consuming whirlpool swallows (it) up in the sea.
Scattered men appear in the vast abyss,
The arms of men and planks and Trojan wealth (appear) throughout the waves.
The storm conquered at once the mighty ship of Ilium, and once the strong ship of Achates,
and the ship in which Abas was carried, and in which the aged Aletes was carried;
All ships received hostile floods by means of open cracks and split.
Meanwhile Neptune felt that the sea was stirring with a huge roar
and that a storm had been sent froth, and that the still waters had been poured
from the depths and the shallows, greatly disturbed,
and looking out over the deep (sea), he lifted a peaceful head from the highest wave.
He sees the scattered fleet of Aeneas in the whole sea,
and sees that the Trojans were overwhelmed by the ruin of the sky and by the sea;
Nor did the tricks and angers escape the notice of the brother of Juno.
He called to himself Eurus and Zephyr, the he said the following things:
“Did such a great faithfulness of your origin hold you?
Now you, winds, dare to stir up the sky and the earth
and to upheave such great masses without my divine power?
I (will punish) you – but it is better to calm the moved seas.
Afterwards, for me, you will atone for the crimes by no similar punishment.
Hasten your flight and tell your king that
not by the ocean but by destiny was the kingdom and that cruel trident given to me.
He (that) holds, Eurus, huge rocks, your homes;
with her in the hall, let it toss itself,
and let Aeolus rule in the enclosed prison of winds.”
So he speaks, and sooner than said, he calms the swoolen seas
and puts the collected clouds to flight and leads back the sun.
At the same time Cymothoe and Triton, having hurried, dislodge the ships from a sharp crag;
The master (Neptune) himself, with his trident,
raises, and opens vast reefs and calms the sea
and also, with his light chariot, glides over the highest waves.
Just as has often happened when in a nation
there is great strife, and the crowd is fierce in their common mind and rages,
and now torches and rocks fly; fury supplies weapons;
then they are silent and stand near with their pricked up ears if by chance
they caught sight of some venerable man with strong loyalty and also with merits;
he rules their minds with words and soothes their hearts:
Thus the entire uproar of the sea falls, after that, looking out on the seas,
the father (Neptune), having been carried in his car in the clear sky, guides his horses
and, flying, gives rein to the obedient (horses).
Tired, the followers of Aeneas hasten on their course
to seek the shores which are nearest, and turn to the shores of Libya.
There is a place in a long inlet: an island forms a harbor,
with a projection of (its) side, by which every wave, coming from the deep,
is shattered and divides itself, having been led back, into bays.
On both sides are twin vast cliffs, and with their rocks
they tower into the sky, beneath the top of which the protected ocean is silent far and wide;
then there is a stage with forests quivering from above,
and the black grove threatens with trembling shadow.
In the front under the facing cliffs there is a cavern with hanging rocks;
Within the water is a house of nymphs with dear seats (of) living rock.
(lines 168-184 are missing until I re-type them, since my Word Doc disappeared.)
all herds follow these
from the back and a long line grazes through the valley(s).
Here Aeneas stood, and snatched up a bow and swift arrows
in his hand, the faithful weapons which Achates used to carry.
He lays low the leaders themselves, carrying (their)
heads tall with branching horns, then he scatters the crowd and confuses
(them) all, driving the mob with weapons among the leafy forest(s);
neither has he stopped until he has slayed seven huge bodies on the ground,
as a victor, and equaled the number with (his) ships;
from here he sought the harbor and divided (them) among all his followers.
He then divided the wine m which good Acestes
had loaded in urns at the Trinacrian (Sicilian) shore and which the hero (Acestes)
had given to the departing (Trojans), and soothed their hearts by speaking:
“O friends, (for neither are we inexperienced of fortune),
O you, having endured more grievous misfortunes, god will also give these an end.
You have approached both the fury of Scylla
(line 201) and the deeply roaring cliffs, and you have experienced Cyclopean rocks:
(line 202) Call back (your) souls and dismiss sadness and fear;
(line 203) perhaps it will once help to remember these things.