Met. 15.680Quisquis adest, vīsum venerantur nūmen, et omnēs
verba sacerdōtis referunt gemināta piumque
Aeneadae praestant et mente et vōce favōrem.All who are present venerate the deity they have seen, and all repeat the priest's words twice over, and the descendants of Aeneas offer devout goodwill with mind and voice. Met. 15.683Adnuit hīs mōtīsque deus rata pignora cristīs
et repetīta dedit vibrātā sībila linguā.The god nodded to them and, moving his crest, gave sure pledges, and with flickering tongue gave repeated hisses. Met. 15.685Tum gradibus nitidīs dēlābitur ōraque retrō
flectit et antīquās abitūrus respicit ārās
adsuētāsque domōs habitātaque templa salūtat.Then he glides down the gleaming steps, and turns his head back, and as he is about to leave looks back at his ancient altars and greets his accustomed home and the temple he had dwelt in. Met. 15.688Inde per iniectīs adopertam flōribus ingēns
serpit humum flectitque sinūs mediamque per urbem
690tendit ad incurvō mūnītōs aggere portūs.From there, huge, he crawls over the ground covered with strewn flowers, bends his coils, and through the middle of the city makes for the harbour protected by a curving mole.
Met. 15.691Restitit hīc agmenque suum turbaeque sequentis
officium placidō vīsus dīmittere vultū
corpus in Ausoniā posuit rate: nūminis illa
sēnsit onus, pressa estque deī gravitāte carīna;He halted here and, seeming with calm face to dismiss his procession and the attendance of the following crowd, he laid his body on the Ausonian ship: it felt the weight of the deity, and the keel was pressed down by the god's heaviness; Met. 15.695Aeneadae gaudent caesōque in lītore taurō
torta corōnātae solvunt retinācula nāvis.the descendants of Aeneas rejoice, and, slaying a bull on the shore, they loose the twisted cables of the garlanded ship. Met. 15.697Impulerat levis aura ratem: deus ēminet altē,
impositāque premēns puppim cervīce recurvam
caeruleās dēspectat aquās modicīsque per aequor
700Īonium zephyrīs sextae Pallantidos ortū
Ītaliam tenuit praeterque Lacīnia templō
nōbilitāta deae Scylacēaque lītora fertur;A light breeze had driven the ship on: the god rises high, and, pressing his neck on the curved stern, looks down on the dark-blue waters, and with gentle west winds across the Ionian sea, at the sixth rising of Pallas' daughter, he reached Italy, and is carried past Lacinium, made famous by the goddess's temple, and the shores of Scylaceum; Met. 15.703linquit Iāpygiam laevīsque Amphrisia remīs
saxa fugit, dextrā praerupta Celennia parte,
705Romethiumque legit Caulōnaque Naryciamque,
ēvincitque fretum Siculīque angusta Pelōrī
Hippotadaeque domōs rēgis Temesēsque metalla,
Leucosiamque petit tepidīque rosāria Paestī.he leaves Iapygia, and with oars on the left flees the Amphrisian rocks, and on the right side the steep Celennia, and skirts Romethium and Caulon and Narycia, and wins through the strait and the narrows of Sicilian Pelorus, and the home of King Hippotades and the mines of Temesa, and makes for Leucosia and the rose-gardens of warm Paestum.
Met. 15.709Inde legit Capreās prōmunturiumque Minervae
710et Surrentīnō generōsōs palmite collēs
Herculeamque urbem Stabiāsque et in ōtia nātam
Parthenopēn et ab hāc Cūmaeae templa Sibyllae.From there he skirts Capreae and the promontory of Minerva and the hills rich in Surrentine vines, and the city of Hercules and Stabiae and Parthenope, born for leisure, and after her the temple of the Cumaean Sibyl. Met. 15.713Hinc calidī fontēs lentisciferumque tenētur
Līternum multamque trahēns sub gurgite harēnam
715Volturnus niveīsque frequēns Sinuessa columbīs
Minturnaeque gravēs et quam tumulāvit alumnus
Antiphataeque domus Trachasque obsessa palūde
et tellūs Circaea et spissī lītoris Antium.From here the hot springs are reached, and Liternum, bearing mastic trees, and the Volturnus, dragging much sand beneath its eddies, and Sinuessa, thronged with snow-white doves, and unhealthy Minturnae, and the place which her foster-son entombed, and the home of Antiphates, and Trachas beset by marsh, and the land of Circe, and Antium with its hard-packed shore. Met. 15.719Hūc ubi vēliferam nautae advertēre carīnam
720(asper enim iam pontus erat), deus explicat orbēs
perque sinūs crēbrōs et magna volūmina lābēns
templa parentis init flāvum tangentia lītus.When the sailors turned the sail-bearing ship here (for the sea was now rough), the god unfolds his coils and, gliding in many folds and great windings, enters the temple of his father that touches the yellow shore.
Met. 15.723Aequore plācātō patriās Epidaurius ārās
linquit et hospitiō iūnctī sibi nūminis ūsus
725lītoream tractū squāmae crepitantis harēnam
sulcat et innīxus moderāmine nāvis in altā
puppe caput posuit, dōnec Castrumque sacrāsque
Lāvīnī sēdēs Tiberīnaque ad ōstia vēnit.When the sea was calm, the Epidaurian leaves his father's altars, and having enjoyed the hospitality of the deity related to him, furrows the sand of the shore with the trail of his rattling scales, and, leaning on the ship's rudder, laid his head on the high stern, until he came to Castrum and the sacred abode of Lavinium and the mouth of the Tiber. Met. 15.729Hūc omnis populī passim mātrumque patrumque
730obvia turba ruit, quaeque ignēs, Trōica, servant,
Vesta, tuōs, laetōque deum clamōre salūtant.Here the whole crowd of the people, mothers and fathers, rushes from all sides to meet him, and those who keep your fires, Trojan Vesta, and they greet the god with joyful shouting. Met. 15.732Quāquē per adversās nāvis cita dūcitur undās,
tūra super rīpās ārīs ex ōrdine factīs
parte ab utrāque sonant et odōrant āera fūmīs,
735ictaque coniectōs incalfacit hostia cultrōs.And where the swift ship is drawn upstream against the waters, on both sides incense crackles on altars built in a row along the banks and scents the air with smoke, and the stricken victim warms the knives plunged into it.
Met. 15.736Iamque caput rērum, Rōmānam intrāverat urbem:
ērigitur serpēns summōque acclīnia mālō
colla movet sēdēsque sibi circumspicit aptās.And now he had entered the head of the world, the city of Rome: the serpent rears up, moves his neck, leaning on the top of the mast, and looks around for a fitting abode. Met. 15.739Scinditur in geminās partēs circumfluus amnis
740(Īnsula nōmen habet), laterumque ā parte duōrum
porrigit aequālēs mediā tellūre lacertōs.The river flowing around divides into two parts (the place is called the Island), and from its two sides stretches out equal arms, with land between. Met. 15.742Hūc sē dē Latiā pīnū Phoebēius anguis
contulit et fīnem, speciē caeleste resūmptā,
lūctibus imposuit vēnitque salūtifer urbī.Here the serpent son of Phoebus betook himself from the Latin pine ship, and, having resumed his heavenly form, put an end to the sorrows and came to the city as a bringer of health.