Iam validam Illionei navem, iam fortis Achatae,

et qua vectus Abas, et qua grandaevus Aletes,

vicit hiems; laxis laterum compagibus omnes

accipiunt inimicum imbrem rimisque fatiscunt.

 

 

Interea mango misceri murmure pontum

emissamque hie sensit Neptunus et imis

stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus; et alto

oroscipiens summa placidum caput extulit unda.

disiectam Aeneae tota videt auquore classem,

fluctibus oppresos Troas caelique ruina.

nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et irae.

 

 

 

 

Eurum ad se Zephyrumqu, vocat dehinc talia fatur;

“Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestry?

Iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti,

miscere et tantas audetis tollere moles?

quos ego! Sed motos praestat componere fluctus.

Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis.

maturate fugam regique haec dicite vestro:

non illi imperium pelagi saevumque tridentem,

sed mihi sorte datum. Tenet ille immania saxa,

Vestras, Eure, domos; illa se iactet in aula

Aeolus et clauso ventorum carcere regent.”

Now the storm conquers Ilioneus’ strong ship, now the ship of brave Achates, and old Aletes, now that which Abas carried; All the ships receive the hostile tide by the loosened joints of their sides and gape with cracks.

 

Meanwhile Neptune sensed that the sea was stirred with a great murmur and that a storm had been sent out; and the still waters had been poured back from the shoals; he was gravely disturbed; and gazing from the deep he lifted out his calming head from the wave and sees the whole fleet of Aeneas, scattered by the whole sea, and the Trojans oppressed by the waves and the falling of the sky.  The tricks nor the anger of Juno lay hidden from her brother.

 

 

He calls Eurus and Zephyr to him then says such things: “did such a great confidence in your race hold you? Winds, do you dare to stir up the sky and earth without my power and lift up such great hears [of water]? You whom to I-!

But it stands before [is more important] to compose the waves having been moved. Afterwards you will atone for your crimes to me with a punishment not similar to this. Hurry up youtr flight and tell these things to your king: the command over the sea and the fierce trident was given not to him but to me by lot. He holds the immense rocks, your home, Eurus; let Aeolus himself throw himself in that court, and let him rule in the closed-off prison of the winds.”