Met. 14.609Inde sub Ascaniī diciōne binōminis Alba
610rēsque Latīna fuit.Then Alba of the double name and the Latin state came under the rule of Ascanius. Met. 14.610Succēdit Silvius illī.Silvius succeeds him. Met. 14.611Quō satus antīquō tenuit repetīta Latīnus
nōmina cum scēptrō.Born of him, Latinus held, along with the sceptre, an ancient name renewed. Met. 14.612Clārus subit Alba Latīnum.Illustrious Alba succeeds Latinus. Met. 14.613Epytus ex illō est;Epytus came from him; Met. 14.613post hunc Capetusque Capysque,
sed Capys ante fuit.after him Capetus and Capys, but Capys was first. Met. 14.614Regnum Tiberīnus ab illīs
615cēpit et in Tuscī dēmersus flūminis undīs
nōmina fēcit aquae;Tiberinus took the kingdom from them and, drowned in the waters of the Tuscan river, gave his name to the water; Met. 14.616dē quō Remulusque ferōxque
Acrota sunt genitī.from him Remulus and fierce Acrota were born. Met. 14.617Remulus mātūrior annīs
fulmineō periit, imitātor fulminis, ictū.Remulus, the elder in years, an imitator of the thunderbolt, perished by the thunderbolt's blow. Met. 14.619Frātre suō scēptrum moderātior Acrota fortī
620trādit Aventīnō, quī, quō regnārat, eōdem
monte iacet positus tribuitque vocābula montī.Acrota, more moderate than his brother, hands the sceptre to brave Aventinus, who lies buried on the same hill on which he had reigned, and gave his name to the hill.
Met. 14.622Iamque Palātīnae summam Proca gentis habēbat.And now Proca held sway over the Palatine race. Met. 14.623Rēge sub hōc Pōmōna fuit, quā nūlla Latīnās
inter hamadryadas coluit sollertius hortōs
625nec fuit arboreī studiōsior altera fētūs.Under this king lived Pomona, than whom none among the Latin hamadryads tended gardens more skilfully, nor was any other more devoted to the fruit of trees. Met. 14.626Unde tenet nōmen: nōn silvās illa nec amnēs,
rūs amat et rāmōs fēlīcia pōma ferentēs.Hence she has her name: she loves not woods nor rivers, but the countryside and boughs bearing fruitful apples. Met. 14.628Nec iaculō gravis est, sed aduncā dextera falce,
quā modo luxuriem premit et spatiantia passim
630bracchia compescit, fissō modo cortice lignum
īnserit et sūcōs aliēnō praestat alumnō;Nor is her right hand weighed down with a javelin, but with a curved pruning-knife, with which now she checks luxuriant growth and restrains branches straying everywhere, now, splitting the bark, she grafts in a twig and supplies sap to a foreign nursling; Met. 14.632nec sentīre sitim patitur bibulaeque recurvās
rādīcis fībrās lābentibus inrigat undīs:
hic amor, hoc studium;nor does she allow them to feel thirst, and she waters the curling fibres of the thirsty root with flowing streams: this is her love, this her passion; Met. 14.634veneris quoque nūlla cupīdō est.she has no desire for love, either.
Met. 14.635Vim tamen agrestum metuēns pōmāria claudit
intus et accessūs prohibet refugitque virīlēs.Yet, fearing the violence of country folk, she shuts her orchards up within and forbids access and shuns men. Met. 14.637Quid nōn et satyrī, saltātibus apta iuventūs,
fēcēre et pīnū praecīnctī cornua Pānes
Sīlēnusque, suīs semper iuvenālior annīs,
640quīque deus fūrēs vel falce vel inguine terret,
ut poterentur eā?What did the satyrs not do, a youthful band suited to dancing, and the Pans, their horns wreathed with pine, and Silenus, always more youthful than his years, and the god who frightens thieves with his sickle or his groin, to win her? Met. 14.641Sed enim superābat amandō
hōs quoque Vertumnus neque erat fēlīcior illīs.But Vertumnus surpassed even these in loving, and was no luckier than they. Met. 14.643Ō quotiēns habitū dūrī messōris aristās
corbe tulit vērīque fuit messōris imāgō!Oh, how often, in the dress of a hardy reaper, he carried ears of grain in a basket and was the very image of a real reaper! Met. 14.645Tempora saepe gerēns faenō religāta recentī
dēsectum poterat grāmen versāsse vidērī;Often, wearing his temples bound with fresh hay, he could seem to have been turning the cut grass; Met. 14.647saepe manū stimulōs rigidā portābat, ut illum
iūrāssēs fessōs modo disiūnxisse iuvencōs.often he carried goads in his rough hand, so that you would have sworn he had just unyoked weary bullocks.
Met. 14.649Falce datā frondātor erat vītisque putātor;Given a pruning-hook, he was a leaf-stripper and vine-pruner; Met. 14.650induerat scālās: lēctūrum pōma putārēs;he had put on a ladder: you would think he was going to pick apples; Met. 14.651mīles erat gladiō, piscātor harundine sūmptā.he was a soldier with a sword, a fisherman when he took up a rod. Met. 14.652Dēnique per multās aditum sibi saepe figūrās
repperit, ut caperet spectātae gaudia fōrmae.In short, through many shapes he often found himself access, to win the joy of looking at her beauty. Met. 14.654Ille etiam pictā redimītus tempora mitrā,
655innītēns baculō, positīs per tempora cānīs,
adsimulāvit anum cultōsque intrāvit in hortōs
pōmaque mīrāta est "tantō" que "potentior!"He even bound his temples with a painted headdress and, leaning on a stick, grey hair set about his temples, imitated an old woman and entered the well-tended gardens, and she admired the fruit and, 'So much more powerful are you!' Met. 14.657inquit,
paucaque laudātae dedit ōscula, quālia numquam
vēra dedisset anus, glaebāque incurva resēdit
660suspiciēns pandōs autumnī pondere rāmōs.she said, and gave the one she praised a few kisses, such as no real old woman would ever have given, and sat down, bent, on the turf, looking up at the boughs bowed with the weight of autumn.
Met. 14.661Ulmus erat contrā speciōsa nitentibus ūvīs:
quam sociā postquam pariter cum vīte probāvit,
"at sī stāret" ait "caelebs sine palmite truncus,
nīl praeter frondēs, quārē peterētur, habēret;Opposite was an elm, handsome with gleaming grapes: after praising it together with its companion vine, she said, 'But if the trunk stood unwed, without the vine, it would have nothing but leaves for which it might be sought; Met. 14.665haec quoque, quae iūncta est, vītis requiēscit in illō:
sī nōn nūpta foret, terrae acclīnāta iacēret.this vine too, which is joined to it, rests on it: if it were not wed, it would lie sprawling on the ground. Met. 14.667Tū tamen exemplō nōn tangeris arboris huius
concubitūsque fugis nec tē coniungere cūrās.Yet you are not moved by the example of this tree, and you flee union and do not care to be joined to anyone. Met. 14.669Atque utinam vellēs!And I wish you would! Met. 14.669Helenē nōn plūribus esset
670sollicitāta procīs nec quae Lapithēia mōvit
proelia nec coniūnx nimium tardantis Ulixeī.Helen would not have been wooed by more suitors, nor she who stirred the Lapiths' battles, nor the wife of too-long-delaying Ulysses.
Met. 14.672Nunc quoque, cum fugiās āversērisque petentēs,
mīlle virī cupiunt et sēmideīque deīque
et quaecumque tenent Albānōs nūmina montēs.Even now, though you flee and turn away from suitors, a thousand men desire you, and demigods and gods, and all the deities who dwell in the Alban hills. Met. 14.675Sed tū, sī sapiēs, sī tē bene iungere anumque
hanc audīre volēs, quae tē plūs omnibus illīs,
plūs quam crēdis, amō, vulgārēs rēice taedās
Vertumnumque torī socium tibi sēlige!But you, if you are wise, if you are willing to make a good match and to listen to this old woman, who love you more than all of them, more than you believe, reject common marriages and choose Vertumnus as the partner of your bed! Met. 14.678prō quō
mē quoque pignus habēs (neque enim sibi notior ille est,
680quam mihi);for whom you have me also as a pledge (for he is not better known to himself than to me); Met. 14.680nec passim tōtō vagus errat in orbe:
haec loca magna colit;nor does he wander at random over the whole world: he dwells in these broad places; Met. 14.681nec, utī pars magna procōrum,
quam modo vīdit, amat: tū prīmus et ultimus illī
ardor eris, sōlīque suōs tibi dēvovet annōs.nor, like a great part of suitors, does he love whomever he has just seen: you will be his first and last flame, and to you alone he devotes his years.
Met. 14.684Adde, quod est iuvenis, quod nātūrāle decōris
685mūnus habet fōrmāsque aptē fingētur in omnēs,
et quod erit iussus, iubeās licet omnia, fīet.Add that he is young, that he has the natural gift of beauty, and he will fit himself aptly into every form, and what he is bidden, though you bid all things, will be done. Met. 14.687Quid quod amātis idem?What of the fact that you love the same things? Met. 14.687quod, quae tibi pōma coluntur,
prīmus habet laetāque tenet tua mūnera dextrā?that he is the first to have the fruit you cultivate, and holds your gifts in his glad right hand? Met. 14.689Sed neque iam fētūs dēsīderat arbore dēmptōs,
690nec, quās hortus alit, cum sūcīs mītibus herbās,
nec quicquam, nisi tē;But now he does not long for fruits plucked from the tree, nor for the herbs with their mild juices that the garden nurtures, nor for anything except you; Met. 14.691miserēre ārdentis et ipsum,
quod petit, ōre meō praesentem crēde precārī
ultōrēsque deōs et pectora dūra perōsam
Īdaliēn memoremque timē Rhamnūsidis īram!pity his burning, and believe that he himself is here in person pleading through my mouth for what he seeks, and fear the avenging gods, and the Idalian goddess who hates hard hearts, and the unforgetting wrath of Rhamnusia!
Met. 14.695Quōque magis timeās (etenim mihi multa vetustās
scīre dedit), referam tōtā notissima Cyprō
facta, quibus flectī facile et mītēscere possīs.And so that you may fear the more (for long life has given me knowledge of many things), I shall tell you of deeds very famous all over Cyprus, by which you may easily be bent and softened.