Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem
impulit in latus: ac venti, velut agmine facto,
qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis
una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis
Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus.
Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum.
Eripiunt subito nubes caelumque diemque
Teucrorum ex oculis; ponto nox incubat atra.
Intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether,
praesentemque viris intentant omnia mortem.

Extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra:
ingemit, et duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas
talia voce refert: 'O terque quaterque beati,
quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis
contigit oppetere! O Danaum fortissime gentis
Tydide! Mene Iliacis occumbere campis
non potuisse, tuaque animam hanc effundere dextra,
saevus ubi Aeacidae telo iacet Hector, ubi ingens
Sarpedon, ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis
scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit?'

Talia iactanti stridens Aquilone procella
velum adversa ferit, fluctusque ad sidera tollit.
Franguntur remi; tum prora avertit, et undis
dat latus; insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons.
Hi summo in fluctu pendent; his unda dehiscens
terram inter fluctus aperit; furit aestus harenis.
Tris Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet
(saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus Aras,
dorsum immane mari summo); tris Eurus ab alto
in brevia et syrtis urget, miserabile visu,
inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae.
Unam, quae Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten,
ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus
in puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister
volvitur in caput; ast illam ter fluctus ibidem
torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat aequore vortex.
Adparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto,
arma virum, tabulaeque, et Troia gaza per undas.
Iam validam Ilionei navem, iam fortis Achati,
et qua vectus Abas, et qua grandaevus Aletes,
vicit hiems; laxis laterum compagibus omnes
accipiunt inimicum imbrem, rimisque fatiscunt.

Interea magno misceri murmure pontum,
emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus, et imis
stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus; et alto
prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.
Disjectam Aeneae, toto videt aequore classem,
fluctibus oppressos Troas caelique ruina.
Nec latuere doli fratrem Junonis et irae.
Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc talia fatur:

'Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?
Jam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti,
miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?
Quos ego—sed motos praestat componere fluctus.
Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis.
Maturate fugam, regique haec dicite vestro:
non illi imperium pelagi saevumque tridentem,
sed mihi sorte datum. Tenet ille immania saxa,
vestras, Eure, domos; illa se iactet in aula
Aeolus, et clauso ventorum carcere regnet.'

Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida aequora placat,
collectasque fugat nubes, solemque reducit.
Cymothoe simul et Triton adnixus acuto
detrudunt navis scopulo; levat ipse tridenti;
et vastas aperit syrtis et temperat aequor
atque rotis summas levibus perlabitur undas.
Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est
seditio, saevitque animis ignobile vulgus,
iamque faces et saxa volant, furor arma ministrat;
tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant;
ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet:
sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam
prospiciens genitor caeloque invectus aperto
flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.

When these [things] have been said, he struck the hollow mountain with a spear

h/b reversed into the side: and the winds, just as with an army h/b made,

rush where an opening was given, and blow over the lands in a storm.

They lay upon the sea and, from the lowest depths,

together the east wind and south wind and southwest wind, crowded with gusts,

overturn the whole [sea] and roll vast waves to the shores.

[Then] follows both the roar of men and the creaking of the ropes. 

Suddenly the clouds snatch away both the sky and day

from the eyes of the Trojans; the dark night broods over the sea.

The heavens thundered and the sky flashes with frequent fires [lightning]

and all [things] threaten instant death for the men.

Immediately the limbs of Aeneas are relaxed with a chill [fear]; 

he groans and, stretching both hands to the stars,

replies such [words] with [his] voice: “Oh three times and four times blessed

[they] to whom it happened to meet death before the faces of the fathers

below the lofty walls of Troy! Oh Diomedes, strongest of the race of the Greeks!

Was it that I could not die on the plains of Troy

and pour out this soul by your right hand, 

where fierce Hector lies low [slain] by the spear of Achilles, where huge

Sarpedon [lies low], where the Simois turns so many shields, h/b snatched up

under the waves, and helmets and the strong bodies of men?"

To [his] uttering such [words], a roaring gale by the North Wind

strikes the sail in front, and raises the waves to the stars.

The oars are broken, then the prow turns away and gives the side

to the waves; a towering mountain of water follows in a mass.

These [men] hang on the highest wave; the gaping wave

opens the earth among the waves to them, the tide rages with sands.

The South wind twists three [ships] h/b carried off onto the hiding rocks

(the Italians call the rocks which [are] in the middle [of the] waves Altars,

a huge reef on the surface of the sea); the East wind drives three [ships] 

from the deep onto the shallows and reefs, piteous to behold,

and dashes [them] against the shallows and encircles [them] with a bank of sand.

The mighty sea strikes one [ship], which was carrying the Lycians and

faithful Orontes upon the ship from above before his eyes:

the helmsman is cast out headlong and is turned onto [his] head;

but the wave twists thrice that [ship] in the same place,

driving [it] around, and the rapid whirlpool swallows [it] in the sea.

The scattered, floating [men] appear in the vast whirlpool,

the arms of men and planks and Trojan treasure [appear] through the waves.

Now the storm has conquered the strong ship of Ilioneus, now of brave Achates,

and [the ship] on which Abas has been carried, and [the ship] on which old Aletes

[has been carried]; all receive hostile rain through

the loose joints of the sides and split with cracks.

Meanwhile Neptune, h/b greatly disturbed, sensed that the sea

was stirred by a great rumble and that a storm has been sent forth,

and that the still waters have been poured back from the lowest depths;

and, looking out on the deep, he raised [his] calm head from the highest wave.

He sees the fleet of Aeneas h/b scattered on the whole sea,

and the Trojans h/b overwhelmed by the waves and by the downfall of the sky.

Nor did the tricks and angers of Juno escape [her] brother.

He calls the East wind and West wind to himself, then says such [words]:

"Has so great a confidence in your origin held you?

Now do you dare to stir up the sky and land without my divine will

and to raise such great masses, winds?

[You] whom I—! But it is better to calm the waves h/b disturbed.

Afterwards you will atone for [your] crimes to me by no similar punishment.

Hasten [your] flight and say these things to your king:

[that] not to him the command of the sea and the stern trident

has been given but to me by lot. He holds huge rocks,

your homes, East wind; let Aeolus vaunt himself in that court, 

and let him rule in the h/b hemmed in prison of the winds.”

Thus he says and, more quickly that a word, he calms the swollen seas

and routs the h/b gathered clouds and leads back the day.

Together Cymothoe and Triton, having striven, dislodge the ships

from the sharp rock; he himself raises [them] with a trident

and opens the vast reefs and calms the sea, 

and he glides over the highest waves with swift wheels.

And just as often when, in a great crowd, a riot has risen

and the common crowd rages in [their] minds;

and now torches and rocks fly, rage supplies arms;

then, if by chance, they caught sight of some man heavy with his piety and merits,

they would be silent and stand with ears raised;

he rules [their] minds with words and soothes [their] hearts:

thus the whole crash of the sea subsided, after the father,

looking upon the seas and having been carried in the open sky,

guides the horses and, flying, gives the reins to the favorable chariot.