Met. 14.527Hinc ubi lēgātī rediēre, negāta ferentēs
arma Aetōla sibi, Rutulī sine vīribus illīs
bella īnstrūcta gerunt, multumque ab utrāque cruōris
530parte datur;When the envoys returned from here, reporting that Aetolian arms were refused them, the Rutulians wage the war they had prepared without those forces, and much blood is shed on both sides; Met. 14.530fert ecce avidās in pīnea Turnus
texta facēs, ignēsque timent, quibus unda pepercit.see, Turnus carries greedy torches against the pine-built hulls, and the ships which the waves had spared fear fire. Met. 14.532Iamque picem et cērās alimentaque cētera flammae
Mulciber ūrēbat perque altum ad carbasa mālum
ībat, et incurvae fūmābant trānstra carīnae:
535cum memor hās pīnūs Īdaeō vertice caesās
sāncta deum genetrīx tinnītibus āera pulsī
aeris et īnflātī complēvit murmure buxī,
perque levēs domitīs invecta leōnibus aurās
"inrita sacrilegā iactās incendia dextrā,
540Turne!"And now Mulciber was burning the pitch and wax and the other food of the flame, and was climbing the tall mast to the sails, and the thwarts of the curved ships were smoking: when the holy mother of the gods, remembering that these pines were felled on the peak of Ida, filled the air with the clashing of struck bronze and the drone of the blown boxwood pipe, and, borne through the light air by her tamed lions: 'In vain do you hurl fire with your sacrilegious hand, Turnus!' Met. 14.540ait.she said.
Met. 14.540"Ēripiam, nec mē patiente cremābit
ignis edāx nemorum partēs et membra meōrum."'I shall snatch them away, nor, with my consent, shall devouring fire burn parts of my groves and limbs of mine.' Met. 14.542Intonuit dīcente dea, tonitrumque secūtī
cum saliente gravēs cecidērunt grandine nimbī,
āeraque et tumidum subitīs concursibus aequor
545Astraeī turbant et eunt in proelia frātrēs.As the goddess spoke it thundered, and after the thunder heavy rain-clouds fell with leaping hail, and the Astraean brothers throw into confusion the air and the swollen sea with sudden clashes, and go into battle. Met. 14.546Ē quibus alma parēns ūnīus vīribus ūsa
stuppea praerūpit Phrygiae retinācula puppis
fertque ratēs prōnās mediōque sub aequore mergit;Using the force of one of them, the kindly mother broke the hempen cables of the Phrygian ships, and carries the ships headlong and sinks them beneath the sea; Met. 14.549rōbore mollītō lignōque in corpora versō
550in capitum faciēs puppēs mūtantur aduncae,
in digitōs abeunt et crūra natantia remī,
quodque prius fuerat, latus est mediīsque carīna
subdita nāvigiīs spīnae mūtātur in ūsum,
līna comae mollēs, antemnae bracchia fīunt,
555caerulus, ut fuerat, color est;their timbers softening and the wood turned into bodies, the curved sterns change into the shapes of heads, the oars pass into fingers and swimming legs; what had been a side remains a side, and the keel set beneath the middle of the ships is changed to serve as a spine, the rigging becomes soft hair, the yardarms arms; their colour is sea-blue, as it had been; Met. 14.555quāsque ante timēbant,
illās virgineīs exercent lūsibus undās
nāides aequoreae dūrīsque in montibus ortae
molle fretum celebrant nec eās sua tangit orīgō.and the waves that they used to fear they now harry in girlish play as sea naiads, and, born on the hard mountains, they throng the soft sea, and their origin does not trouble them.
Met. 14.559Nōn tamen oblītae, quam multa perīcula saepe
560pertulerint pelagō, iactātīs saepe carīnīs
supposuēre manūs, nisi sīqua vehēbat Achīvōs:
clādis adhūc Phrygiae memorēs, ōdēre Pelasgōs
Nēritiaeque ratis vīdērunt fragmina laetīs
vultibus et laetīs vīdēre rigēscere puppem
565vultibus Alcinoī saxumque incrēscere lignō.Yet not forgetting how many dangers they had often endured on the sea, they often placed their hands beneath storm-tossed ships, unless one carried Achaeans: still remembering the Phrygian disaster, they hated the Pelasgians, and they looked on the wreckage of the Neritian ship with joyful faces, and with joyful faces saw the ship of Alcinous grow stiff and stone grow over the wood. Met. 14.566Spēs erat, in nymphās animātā classe marīnās,
posse metū mōnstrī Rutulum dēsistere bellō:
perstat, habetque deōs pars utraque, quodque deōrum est
īnstar, habent animōs;There was hope that, with the fleet given life as sea nymphs, the Rutulian might desist from war through fear of the portent: he persists, and each side has gods, and, what is as good as gods, they have courage; Met. 14.569nec iam dōtālia regna
570nec scēptrum socerī, nec tē, Lāvīnia virgō,
sed vīcisse petunt dēpōnendīque pudōre
bella gerunt, tandemque Venus victrīcia nātī
arma videt, Turnusque cadit, cadit Ardea, Turnō
sōspite dicta potēns.and no longer do they seek a dowry realm, nor the sceptre of a father-in-law, nor you, maiden Lavinia, but victory, and they wage war from shame at laying it down; and at last Venus sees her son's arms victorious, and Turnus falls, Ardea falls, called powerful while Turnus lived.
Met. 14.574Quem postquam barbarus ēnsis
575abstulit et tepida latuērunt tēcta favillā,
congeriē ē mediā tum prīmum cognita praepes
subvolat et cinerēs plausīs ēverberat alīs.After the barbarian sword had destroyed it and its houses lay hidden in warm ash, from the middle of the heap a bird, then first known, flies up and beats the ashes with flapping wings. Met. 14.578Et sonus et maciēs et pallor et omnia, captam
quae deceant urbem, nōmen quoque mānsit in illā
580urbis;Its sound, its leanness, its pallor, and everything that befits a captured city, even the city's name, remained in it; Met. 14.580et ipsa suīs dēplangitur Ardea pennīs.and Ardea herself is mourned by her own wings.