Aen. 3.655Vix ea fātus erat, summō cum monte vidēmus
ipsum inter pecudēs vāstā sē mōle moventem
pāstōrem Polyphēmum et lītora nota petentem,
mōnstrum horrendum, īnfōrme, ingēns, cui lūmen adēmptum.He had scarcely spoken, when on the top of the mountain we see the shepherd Polyphemus himself moving his vast bulk among his flocks and making for the familiar shore, a dreadful monster, misshapen, huge, robbed of his sight. Aen. 3.659Trunca manū pīnus regit et vestīgia firmat;A lopped pine-trunk in his hand guides him and steadies his steps; Aen. 3.660lānigerae comitantur ovēs—ea sōla voluptās
sōlāmenque malī.his woolly sheep go with him — that his only pleasure and comfort in his woe. Aen. 3.662Postquam altōs tetigit flūctūs et ad aequora vēnit,
lūminis effossī fluidum lāvit inde cruōrem,
dentibus īnfrendēns gemitū, graditurque per aequor
665iam medium, necdum flūctus latera ardua tinxit.When he had reached the deep water and come to the sea, he washed from it the oozing blood of his gouged eye, gnashing his teeth with a groan, and walks through the sea, now in mid-water, and still the waves have not wetted his towering sides.
Aen. 3.666Nōs procul inde fugam trepidī celerāre, receptō
supplice sīc meritō, tacitīque incidere fūnem;We, far off, in alarm hasten our flight from there, taking on board the suppliant who had so well deserved it, and silently cut the cable; Aen. 3.668vertimus et prōnī certantibus aequora remīs.and bending forward we churn the waters with rival oars. Aen. 3.669Sēnsit, et ad sonitum vōcis vestīgia torsit;He sensed it, and turned his steps towards the sound of our voices; Aen. 3.670vērum ubi nūlla datur dextrā adfectāre potestās,
nec potis Īoniōs flūctūs aequāre sequendō,
clamōrem immēnsum tollit, quō pontus et omnēs
contremuēre undae, penitusque exterrita tellūs
Ītaliae, curvīsque immūgiit Aetna cavernīs.but when he is given no power to lay his hand on us, and cannot match the Ionian waves in pursuit, he raises an immense shout, at which the sea and all the waves trembled, and the land of Italy was terrified to its depths, and Etna bellowed in its winding caverns.