Met. 7.634Nox subit, et cūrīs exercita corpora somnus
635occupat: ante oculōs eadem mihi quercus adesse
et rāmōs totidem totidemque animālia rāmīs
ferre suīs vīsa est pariterque tremīscere mōtū
grāniferumque agmen subiectīs spargere in arvīs;Night comes on, and sleep takes hold of bodies worn by cares: before my eyes the same oak seemed to be present, and to bear as many branches and as many creatures on its branches, and to tremble with the same motion, and to scatter the grain-bearing column on the fields beneath; Met. 7.639crēscere quod subitō et maius maiusque vidērī
640ac sē tollere humō rēctōque adsistere truncō
et maciem numerumque pedum nigrumque colōrem
pōnere et hūmānam membrīs indūcere fōrmam.and they seemed suddenly to grow and look larger and larger, and to raise themselves from the ground and stand with upright trunk, and to put off their leanness and their number of feet and their black colour, and to put human form upon their limbs. Met. 7.643Somnus abit: damnō vigilāns mea vīsa querorque
in superīs opis esse nihil.Sleep departs: awake, I condemn my visions and complain that there is no help in the gods.
Met. 7.644At in aedibus ingēns
645murmur erat, vōcēsque hominum exaudīre vidēbar
iam mihi dēsuētās.But in the palace there was a great murmur, and I seemed to hear men's voices, now unfamiliar to me. Met. 7.646Dum suspicor hās quoque somnī
esse, venit Telamōn properus, foribusque reclūsīs
"spēque fidēque, pater" dīxit, "maiōra vidēbis:
ēgredere!"While I suspect that these too belong to sleep, Telamon comes in haste, and, throwing open the doors, says, 'Father, you will see things greater than your hope and belief: come out!' Met. 7.649Ēgredior, quālēsque in imāgine somnī
650vīsus eram vīdisse virōs, ex ōrdine tālēs
adspiciō nōscōque.I come out, and men such as I had seemed to see in the image of my sleep, just such I see, one after another, and recognise. Met. 7.651Adeunt rēgemque salūtant.They approach and greet their king. Met. 7.652Vōta Iovī solvō populīsque recentibus urbem
partior et vacuōs prīscīs cultōribus agrōs,
Myrmidonasque vocō, nec orīgine nōmina fraudō.I pay my vows to Jupiter, and divide the city among the new peoples, and the fields empty of their former tillers, and call them Myrmidons, and do not cheat the name of its origin.
Met. 7.655Corpora vīdistī;You have seen their bodies; Met. 7.655mōrēs quōs ante gerēbant,
nunc quoque habent: parcum genus est patiēnsque labōrum
quaesītīque tenāx et quod quaesīta reservet.the habits they had before, they have now as well: they are a thrifty race, enduring of toil, tenacious of what they have gained and ready to store up what they gain. Met. 7.658Hī tē ad bella parēs annīs animīsque sequentur,
cum prīmum quī tē fēlīciter attulit, eurus"
660(eurus enim attulerat) "fuerit mūtātus in austrōs."These, your equals in years and spirit, will follow you to war, as soon as the east wind that brought you here so fortunately' (for it was the east wind that had brought him) 'has changed into south winds.'