#LatinForTheDay – 23 May #Ovid
“hos potius populos in dotem, ambage remissa,
accipe et advectas Pygmalionis opes.
Ilion in Tyriam transfer felicius urbem
resque loco regis sceptraque sacra tene!
si tibi mens avida est belli, si quaerit Iulus,...
“hos potius populos in dotem, ambage remissa,
accipe et advectas Pygmalionis opes.
Ilion in Tyriam transfer felicius urbem
resque loco regis sceptraque sacra tene!
si tibi mens avida est belli, si quaerit Iulus,...
"...unde suo partus Marte triumphus eat,
quem superet, nequid desit, praebebimus hostem;
hic pacis leges, hic locus arma capit.
tu modo, per matrem fraternaque tela, sagittas,
perque fugae comites, Dardana sacra, deos—
sic superent, quoscumque tua de gente reportat...
quem superet, nequid desit, praebebimus hostem;
hic pacis leges, hic locus arma capit.
tu modo, per matrem fraternaque tela, sagittas,
perque fugae comites, Dardana sacra, deos—
sic superent, quoscumque tua de gente reportat...
"...Mars ferus, et damni sit modus ille tui,
Ascaniusque suos feliciter inpleat annos,
et senis Anchisae molliter ossa cubent—
parce, precor, domui, quae se tibi tradit habendam!”
Ovid, Heroides 7.149-163
Ascaniusque suos feliciter inpleat annos,
et senis Anchisae molliter ossa cubent—
parce, precor, domui, quae se tibi tradit habendam!”
Ovid, Heroides 7.149-163
‘Leave your wanderings behind you: instead take me, with
My people and the riches of Pygmalion as my dowry!
Establish Troy more happily here in our Tyrian town;
Grab the boons of kingship, the sacred sceptre!
If your spirit still lusts for war, if Iulus seeks out opportunity...
My people and the riches of Pygmalion as my dowry!
Establish Troy more happily here in our Tyrian town;
Grab the boons of kingship, the sacred sceptre!
If your spirit still lusts for war, if Iulus seeks out opportunity...
'Whence he might come in triumph, earning his own martial spurs,
Then we shall find him a foe to conquer – nothing will be lacking!
Here too there is scope for both peace and war!
I beg by your mother, by the arrows of your brother too, and...
Then we shall find him a foe to conquer – nothing will be lacking!
Here too there is scope for both peace and war!
I beg by your mother, by the arrows of your brother too, and...
'By those blessed companions of your flight, the gods of Dardanus,
That those of your people whom vicious Mars has carried hither
Might prosper, that your suffering may have an end,...
That those of your people whom vicious Mars has carried hither
Might prosper, that your suffering may have an end,...
'That Ascanius may live out his years in a state of bliss,
That the bones of the venerable Anchises might rest easy...
Only show mercy to the home that would give itself to you wholesale!'
That the bones of the venerable Anchises might rest easy...
Only show mercy to the home that would give itself to you wholesale!'
As I'm preparing texts for next year, I'm quite pleased that I get the chance to teach Heroides 7 (for the first time in 15 years!). Probably my favourite of the letters, as Dido's words are heart-rending.
The Image at the head of this thread is a fresco from Pompeii - more precisely from the Domus L. Rapinasi Optati (I.4.25), which is connected to the House of the Citharist - thought to depict Dido and Aeneas (National Archaeological Museum, Naples: 112282).
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