User:Phy1729/Aeneid/Book X

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Quem sic Pallas petit ante precatus: 'da nunc, Thybri pater, ferro, quod missile libro, fortunam atque uiam duri per pectus Halaesi. haec arma exuuiasque uiri tua quercus habebit.' audiit illa deus; dum texit Imaona Halaesus, Arcadio infelix telo dat pectus inermum.

At non caede uiri tanta perterrita Lausus, pars ingens belli, sinit agmina: primus Abantem oppositum interimit, pugnae nodumque moramque. sternitur Arcadiae proles, sternuntur Etrusci et uos, o Grais imperdita corpora, Teucri. agmina concurrunt ducibusque et uiribus aequis; extremi addensent acies nec turba moueri tela manusque sinit. hinc Pallas instat et urget, hinc contra Lausus, nec multum discrepat aetas, egregii forma, sed quis Fortuna negarat in patriam reditus. ipsos concurrere passus haud tamen inter se magni regnator Olympi; mox illos sua fata manent maiore sub hoste.

Interea soror alma monet succedere Lauso Turnum, qui uolucri curru medium secat agmen. ut uidit socios: 'tempus desistere pugnae; solus ego in Pallanta feror, soli mihi Pallas debetur; cuperem ipse parens spectator adesset.' haec ait, et socii cesserunt aequore iusso. at Rutulum abscessu iuuenis tum iussa superba miratus stupet in Turno corpusque per ingens lumina uoluit obitque truci procul omnia uisu, talibus et dictis it contra dicta tyranni: 'aut spoliis ego iam raptis laudabor opimis aut leto insigni: sorti pater aequus utrique est. tolle minas.' fatus medium procedit in aequor; frigidus Arcadibus coit in praecordia sanguis. desiluit Turnus biiugis, pedes apparat ire comminus; utque leo, specula cum uidit ab alta stare procul campis meditantem in proelia taurum, aduolat, haud alia est Turni uenientis imago. hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae, ire prior Pallas, si qua fors adiuuet ausum uiribus imparibus, magnumque ita ad aethera fatur: 'per patris hospitium et mensas, quas aduena adisti, te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis. cernat semineci sibi me rapere arma cruenta uictoremque ferant morientia lumina Turni.' audiit Alcides iuuenem magnumque sub imo corde premit gemitum lacrimasque effundit inanis. tum genitor natum dictis adfatur amicis: Whom Pallas sought before having prayed thus: "Give now, Father Thyber, to my iron, which I balance ready to be thrown, fortune and a way through the chest of harsh Halaesus. Your oak will hold these arms and spoils of the man." The god heard these things ; while Halaesus protected Imaon, the unhappy man gave his defenseless breast to Arcadian weapons.

But Lausus, a huge part of the war, did not allow the battle line to have been frightened by such great slaughter of the man: first he killed Abas having been opposite, both a knot and a delay of battle. The youth of Arcadia was laid low, the Etruscans and you Teucrans O bodies not destroyed by the Greeks, were laid low. The battle lines joined battle with both equal leaders and strength; the farthest ones packed the battle line densely nor did the crowd allow weapons and hands to be moved. On this side Pallas pressed on and drove hard, on that side Lausus pressed hard against nor did their age differ much, distinguished in respect to form, but to whom Fortune denied a return to their fatherland. Nevertheless the ruler of great Olympus did by no means allow the men themselves to come together in battle between themselves; soon their own fates awaited those men under a greater enemy.

Meanwhile his kindly sister warned Turnus to approach Lausus, who cut the middle of the battle line with his swift chariot. When he saw the allies he said: "It is time to cease form battle; I alone am born against Pallas, Pallas is owed to me alone; I would desire that his parent himself might be present as a spectator." He said these things and the allies withdrew from the plains having been ordered. But then at the departure of the Rutulians the youth having marveled at the haughty commands was dazed at Turnus and he rolled his eyes over the huge body and from afar went over tall things with his fierce sight, and with such words he went against the words of the tyrant: "Now I shall be praised either for rich spoils having been seized or for a distinguished death: my father is equal to each fate. Take away your threats." Having spoken thus he proceeded into the middle of the plain; the blood came together cold in the hearts of the Arcadians. Turnus jumped down from his chariot, he prepared to go on foot into hand-to-hand combat; like a lion when from his high lookout he saw a bull standing at a distance in the plains meditating for battles, he flew down, not at all other is the image of coming Turnus. When he (Pallas) believed that this man (Turnus) would be near to his spear having been sent Pallas went first, if in some way fortune might help him having dared with unequal strength, and he spoke thus to the great upper air: "Throughout the hospitality and the tables of my father, which you as a stranger approached, I pray, descendant of Alcaeus, that you be present to my huge undertakings. Let him see me seizing the bloody weapon from himself dying and let the dying eyes of Turnus bear me as the victor." The descendent of Alcaeus heard the young man, and repressed a great groan under the bottom of his heart and he poured forth useless tears. Then his father addressed the son with kind words: