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VIRGIL VI LINES 788-800
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"
huc geminas nunc flecte acies, hanc aspice gentem
''Now turn your
twin eyes
in this direction, look on this
family
Romanosque tuos. hic Caesar et omnis luli
and your Romans. Here is
Caesar
and all the
offspring
progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem.
of lulus, who are going to go beneath the great vault of heaven.
hic vir,
hic est
,
tibi quem promitti saepius audis
,
Here is the man, this is he, whom you have so often heard promised to you
Augustus
Caesar
, divi genus,
aurea
condet
Augustus
Caesar
, descendant of a god, who will establish a
golden
age
saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva
Again in Latium, throughout the fields formerly ruled
Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos
By Saturn; he will
extend
his
power
over the Garamantes
proferet imperium
; iacet extra sidera tellus,
And Indians; his
land
will lie beyond the
stars
,
extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas
Beyond the paths of the year and the
Sun
, where
sky-bearing Atlas
axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Turns on his shoulder the vault of
heaven
, inset with
burning
stars.
huius in adventum iam nunc et
Caspia regna
In expectation of his arrival, even now the
Caspian kingdoms
responsis horrent divum et Maeotia tellus,
And the
Maeotian land shudder
at the oracles of the
gods
,
et septemgemini turbant trepida ostia Nili."
And the
trembling mouths
of the seven-fold Nile are in
panic.