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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  5, l.   4ff (5.4-8) (29-19 BC) [tr. Conington (1866)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oft to the town he turns his eyes, Whence Dido&#8217;s fires already rise. What cause has lit so fierce a flame They know not: but the pangs of shame From great love wronged, and what despair Can make a baffled woman dare &#8212; All this they know, and knowing tread The paths of presage, vague [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oft to the town he turns his eyes,<br />
Whence Dido&#8217;s fires already rise.<br />
What cause has lit so fierce a flame<br />
They know not: but the pangs of shame<br />
From great love wronged, and what despair<br />
Can make a baffled woman dare &#8212;<br />
All this they know, and knowing tread<br />
The paths of presage, vague and dread.</p>
<p><em>[&#8230; moenia respiciens, quae iam infelicis Elissae<br />
conlucent flammis. Quae tantum accenderit ignem,<br />
causa latet; duri magno sed amore dolores<br />
polluto, notumque, furens quid femina possit,<br />
triste per augurium Teucrorum pectora ducunt.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  5, l.   4ff (5.4-8) (29-19 BC) [tr. Conington (1866)] 
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Elissa is an alternate name for Dido.<br><br> 

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D5%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=moenia%20respiciens%2C,pectora%20ducunt.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Viewing unhappy Dido's wals, which shone<br>
With flames, the cause such fire had rais'd, unknown;<br>
But what a woman might in sorrow drown'd,<br>
Struck deep with grief and burning love was found;<br>
And by sad auguries Trojans understand.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Viewing%20unhappy%20Dido%27s,auguries%20Trojans%20understand.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Then, casting back his eyes, with dire amaze,<br>
Sees on the Punic shore the mounting blaze.<br>
The cause unknown; yet his presaging mind<br>
The fate of Dido from the fire divin'd;<br>
He knew the stormy souls of womankind,<br>
What secret springs their eager passions move,<br>
How capable of death for injur'd love.<br>
Dire auguries from hence the Trojans draw;<br>
Till neither fires nor shining shores they saw.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_V#:~:text=Then%2C%20casting%20back,shores%20they%20saw.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... looking back at the walls which now glare with the flames of unfortunate Elisa. What cause may have kindled such a blaze is unknown; but the thought of those cruel agonies that arise from violent love when injured, and the knowledge of what frantic woman can do, led the minds of the Trojans through dismal forebodings.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22glare%20with%20the%20flames%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He saw the city glaring with the flames <br>
Of the unhappy Dido. What had lit<br>
This fire, they knew not; but the cruel pangs <br>
From outraged love, and what a woman's rage <br>
Could do, they know; and through the Trojans' thoughts <br>
Pass sad forebodings of the truth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n153/mode/2up?q=%22of+the+unhappy+dido%22">Cranch</a> (1872)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... looking back on the city that even now gleams with hapless Elissa's funeral flame. Why the broad blaze is lit lies unknown; but the bitter pain of a great love trampled, and the knowledge of what woman can do in madness, draw the Teucrians' hearts to gloomy guesses.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#BOOK_FIFTH:~:text=looking%20back%20on%20the%20city%20that%20even%20now%20gleams%20with%20hapless%20Elissa%27s%20funeral%20flame.%20Why%20the%20broad%20blaze%20is%20lit%20lies%20unknown%3B%20but%20the%20bitter%20pain%20of%20a%20great%20love%20trampled%2C%20and%20the%20knowledge%20of%20what%20woman%20can%20do%20in%20madness%2C%20draw%20the%20Teucrians%27%20hearts%20to%20gloomy%20guesses.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... Still looking back upon the walls now litten by the flame<br>
Of hapless Dido: though indeed whence so great burning came<br>
They knew not; but the thought of grief that comes of love defiled<br>
How great it is, what deed may come of woman waxen wild,<br>
Through woeful boding of the sooth the Teucrians' bosoms bore.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_V:~:text=Still%20looking%20back,Teucrians%27%20bosoms%20bore.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... And backward on the city bent his gaze,<br>
Bright with the flames of Dido. Whence the blaze<br>
Arose, they knew not; but the pangs they knew<br>
When love is passionate, and man betrays,<br>
And what a frantic woman scorned can do,<br>
And many a sad surmise their boding thoughts pursue<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#:~:text=And%20backward%20on,boding%20thoughts%20pursue">Taylor</a> (1907)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;... but when his eyes<br>
looked back on Carthage, they beheld the glare<br>
of hapless Dido's fire. Not yet was known<br>
what kindled the wild flames; but that the pang<br>
of outraged love is cruel, and what the heart<br>
of desperate woman dares, they knew too well,<br>
and sad foreboding shook each Trojan soul.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D5%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=but%20when%20his%20eyes%0Alooked%20back%20on%20Carthage%2C%20they%20beheld%20the%20glare%0Aof%20hapless%20Dido%27s%20fire.%20Not%20yet%20was%20known%0Awhat%20kindled%20the%20wild%20flames%3B%20but%20that%20the%20pang%0Aof%20outraged%20love%20is%20cruel%2C%20and%20what%20the%20heart%0Aof%20desperate%20woman%20dares%2C%20they%20knew%20too%20well%2C%0Aand%20sad%20foreboding%20shook%20each%20Trojan%20soul.">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... looking back on the city walls which now gleam with unhappy Elissa's funeral flames. What cause kindled so great a flame is unknown; but the cruel pangs when deep love is profaned, and knowledge of what a woman can do in frenzy, lead the hearts of the Trojans amid sad forebodings.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n455/mode/2up?q=%22back+on+the+city+walls%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His gaze went back<br>
To the walls of Carthage, glowing in the flame<br>
Of Dido’s funeral pyre. What cause had kindled<br>
So high a blaze, they did not know, but anguish<br>
When love is wounded deep, and the way of a woman<br>
With frenzy in her heart, they knew too well,<br>
And dwelt on with foreboding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_V:~:text=His%20gaze%20went,on%20with%20foreboding.">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He looked back at Carthage's walls; they were lit up now by the death-fires<br>
Of tragic Dido. Why so big a fire should be burning<br>
Was a mystery: but knowing what a woman is capable of<br>
When insane with the grief of having her love cruelly dishonoured<br>
Started a train of uneasy conjecture in the Trojans' minds.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/102/mode/2up">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;... gazing<br>
back -- watching where the walls of Carthage glowed <br>
with sad Elissa's flames. They cannot know<br>
what caused so vast a blaze, and yet the Trojans<br>
know well the pain when passion is profaned<br>
and how a woman driven wild can act;<br>
their hearts are drawn through dark presentiments.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22carthage+glowed%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But he kept his eyes<br>
Upon the city far astern, now bright<br>
With poor Elissa's pyre. What caused that blaze<br>
Remained unknown to watchers out at sea,<br>
But what they knew of a great love profaned<br>
In anguish, and a desperate woman's nerve,<br>
Led every Trojan heart into foreboding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/124/mode/2up?q=%22city+far+astern%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... looking back at the walls of Carthage, glowing now in the flames of poor Dido's pyre. No one understood what had lit such a blaze, but since they all knew what bitter suffering is caused when a great love is desecrated and what a woman is capable when driven to madness, the minds of the Trojans were filled with dark foreboding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22glowing+now%22">West</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... looking back at the city walls that were glowing now with<br>
unhappy Dido’s funeral flames. The reason that such a fire had<br>
been lit was unknown: but the cruel pain when a great love is<br>
profaned, and the knowledge of what a frenzied woman might do,<br>
drove the minds of the Trojans to sombre forebodings.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidV.php#anchor_Toc1537948:~:text=looking%20back%20at,to%20sombre%20forebodings.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... he glanced back at the walls of Carthage<br>
set aglow by the fires of tragic Dido’s pyre.<br>
What could light such a conflagration? A mystery -- <br>
but the Trojans know the pains of a great love<br>
defiled, and the lengths a woman driven mad can go,<br>
and it leads their hearts down ways of grim foreboding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22glanced%20back%22">Fagles</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... gazing back at city walls lit up by the flames -- poor Dido's pyre. No one knew what caused the blaze, but they knew the great grief of a love betrayed and what a woman's passion could unleash. Their hearts were somber with foreboding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22gazing%20back%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Propertius -- Elegies, Book  4, Elegy  7, l.   1ff (4.7.1-2) [tr. Carrier (1963)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are ghosts after all, then; death is not the ending: the soul, like smoke, escapes from the funeral flame. [Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit, Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: The Manes are no dream; death closes not Our all of being, and the wan-visaged shade Escapes unscathed from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are ghosts after all, then; death is not the ending:<br />
the soul, like smoke, escapes from the funeral flame. </p>
<p><em>[Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,<br />
Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.]</em></p>
<br><b>Propertius</b> (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]<br><i>Elegies</i>, Book  4, Elegy  7, l.   1ff (4.7.1-2) [tr. Carrier (1963)] 
						<br><br><span class="cite">
						

(<a href="https://www.pantheonpoets.com/poems/the-last-of-cynthia/#:~:text=Sunt%20aliquid%20Manes%3A%20letum%20non%20omnia%20finit%2C%0Aluridaque%20evictos%20effugit%20umbra%20rogos.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>The Manes are no dream; death closes not<br>
Our all of being, and the wan-visaged shade<br>
Escapes unscathed from the funeral fires.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Horace/uwJSAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Sunt+aliquid+Manes:+letum%22&pg=PA139&printsec=frontcover">Martin</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yes; there <i>are</i> ghosts: death ends not all, I ween.<br>
The lurid shade escapes the pile's rent thrall.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elegies_of_Sextus_Propertius/19w_I9CbMiIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Sunt+aliquid+Manes:+letum%22&pg=RA4-PA192&printsec=frontcover">Cranstoun</a> (1875)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>So there <i>are</i> spirits, then, death ends not all<br>
But each wan ghost escapes the fiery pall.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_elegies_of_Propertius_tr_into_Engl_v/3GQCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22death%20ends%20not%22">Moore</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There are, then, such things as spirits: death does not finish everything, and the lurid shade overcomes and escapes the funeral pile<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/elegies00prop/page/126/mode/2up?q=%22there+are+then%22">Gantillon</a> (1884)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The dead have being: death is not the term of everything, and the lurid shadow escapes from the defeated faggot.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t83j3gr9k&seq=176&q1=%22dead+have+being%22">Phillimore</a> (1906)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The Shades are no fable: death is not the end of all, and the pale ghost escapes the vanquished pyre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/LoebClassicalLibraryL018/page/n329/mode/2up?q=%22shades+are+no+fable%22">Butler</a> (Loeb) (1912)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, <br>
and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.<br>
[<a href="https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-BOG-838/mode/2up?q=%22escapes+from+the+vanquished+pyre%22">E.g.</a> (1934)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ghosts are realities; death not the end of all: <br>
The wan shadow defeats the funeral pyre <br>
And evades its fires.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/propertius-elegies-musker.txt/page/183/mode/2up?q=%22ghosts+are+realities%22">Musker</a> (1972)] </blockquote><br>



<blockquote>A ghost is someone: death has left a hole<br>
For the lead-coloured soul to beat the fire<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.ocasopress.com/propertius-elegies-previous-translations.html#:~:text=A%20ghost%20is%20someone%3A%20death%20has%20left%20a%20hole%0AFor%20the%20lead%2Dcoloured%20soul%20to%20beat%20the%20fire">Lowell</a> (1974)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>The souls of the dead are something: in death everything does not cease: <br>
the pale shade escapes the pyre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_e3k2/page/342/mode/2up?q=%22sunt+aliquid%22">Batiushkov</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>So ghosts do exist: death is not the end of all, and a pale shade vanquishes and escapes the pyre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.loebclassics.com/display/propertius-elegies/1990/pb_LCL018.357.xml;jsessionid=9F18064BACAAD56C60698FB6D54589B3#:~:text=So%20ghosts%20do%20exist%3A%20death%20is%20not%20the%20end%20of%20all%2C%20and%20a%20pale%20shade%20vanquishes%20and%20escapes%20the%20pyre.">Goold</a> (Loeb) (1990)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>A ghost is something. Death does <i>not</i> close all.<br>
<span class="tab">A pale shade escapes, defeating the pyre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/poems0000prop_b2d5/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22ghost+is+something%22">Lee</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>There are Spirits, of a kind: death does not end it all, and the pale ghost escapes the ruined pyre. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PropertiusBkFour.php#anchor_Toc201112561:~:text=the%20pale%20ghost%20escapes%20the%20ruined%20pyre.">Kline</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The Shades exist, and death not wholly bounds our life:<br>
<span class="tab">a sallow ghost escapes the pyre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.ocasopress.com/pdf/sextus_propertius_elegies_translation.pdf#page=327">Holcombe</a> (2009)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There are such things as ghosts -- death does not put an end to everything, and a pallid shade escapes the defeated pyres.<br>
(<a href="https://www.pantheonpoets.com/poems/the-last-of-cynthia/#:~:text=There%20are%20such%20things%20as%20ghosts%20%E2%80%93%20death%20does%20not%20put%20an%20end%20to%20everything%2C%20and%20a%20pallid%20shade%20escapes%20the%20defeated%20pyres">Source</a>)</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There are ghosts: death does not end everything, <br>
and the pale shade escapes the conquered pyre.</blockquote><br>						</span>
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