Aeneid Book 1- Neptune calms the sea

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Interea magno misceri murmure pontum, emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus, et imis stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus;

Neptune, meanwhile, greatly troubled, saw that the sea was churned with vast murmur, and the storm was loose and the still waters welled from their deepest levels:

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et alto prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.

he raised his calm face from the waves, gazing over the deep.

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Disiectam Aeneae, toto videt aequore classem, fluctibus oppressos Troas caelique ruina, nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et irae.

He sees Aeneas’s fleet scattered all over the ocean, the Trojans crushed by the breakers, and the plummeting sky. And Juno’s anger, and her stratagems, do not escape her brother.

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Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc talia fatur:

He calls the East and West winds to him, and then says:

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'Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri? Iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti, miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?

‘Does confidence in your birth fill you so? Winds, do you dare, without my intent, to mix earth with sky, and cause such trouble, now?

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Quos ego—sed motos praestat componere fluctus.

You whom I – ! But it’s better to calm the running waves:

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Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis.

you’ll answer to me later for this misfortune, with a different punishment.

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Maturate fugam, regique haec dicite vestro:

Hurry, fly now, and say this to your king:

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non illi imperium pelagi saevumque tridentem, sed mihi sorte datum. Tenet ille immania saxa, vestras, Eure, domos;

control of the ocean, and the fierce trident, were given to me, by lot, and not to him. He owns the wild rocks, home to you, and yours, East Wind:

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illa se iactet in aula Aeolus, et clauso ventorum carcere regnet.'

let Aeolus officiate in his palace, and be king in the closed prison of the winds.’

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Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida aequora placat, collectasque fugat nubes, solemque reducit.

So he speaks, and swifter than his speech, he calms the swollen sea, scatters the gathered cloud, and brings back the sun.

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et alto prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.

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he raised his calm face from the waves, gazing over the deep.

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Disiectam Aeneae, toto videt aequore classem, fluctibus oppressos Troas caelique ruina, nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et irae.

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Card 4

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Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc talia fatur:

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'Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri? Iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti, miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?

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Aeneid Book 1- Neptune calms the sea