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DIVFONT face=Times New RomanIn Aeneid 1.588-593, Venus tarts the hero
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so he will be more appealing toBRDido:BRRestitit Aeneas claraque in luce
refulsit,BRos umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoramBRcaesariem nato
genetrix lumenque iuventaeBRpurpureum et laetos oculis adflarat
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color=#ff face=Arial size=2The Trojan chief appear'd in open sight, A
name=845/ABRAugust in visage, and serenely bright. A
name=846/ABRHis mother goddess, with her hands divine, A
name=847/ABRHad form'd his curling locks, and made his temples A
name=848/Ashine, A name=849/ABRAnd giv'n his rolling eyes a
sparkling
grace, A name=850/ABRAnd breath'd a youthful vigor on his face; A
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namque ipsa decoram
caesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventae
purpureum et laetos oculis adflarat honores:
Interestingly Dryden makes no mention of purple:
His mother goddess, with her hands divine,
Had form'd his curling locks, and made his temples shine,
And giv'n his rolling eyes a sparkling grace,
And breath'd a youthful vigor on his face;
I trace back Dryden's shine to lumen purpureum and his youthful to
iuventae: this isn't so much translation as free composition based on
Virgil (to borrow the language of film and television adaptations). Here
are some more literal versions of namque ... honores, with asterisks
marking what I take to be the rendering of lumen purpureum:
Lonsdale and Lee: for his own mother gave him graceful flowing locks, and
the *brilliant complexion* of youth, and inspired his eyes with a joyous
lustre
Day Lewis: for Venus herself had breathed
Beauty upon his head and the *roseate sheen* of youth on
His manhood and a gallant light into his eyes
West: His own mother had breathed upon her son and given beauty to his hair
and the sparkle of joy to his eyes, and the *glow* of youth *shone* all
about him.
I haven't yet read Davie on Hardy's Virgilian purples, but I imagine this
passage is more what Hardy had in mind in A Pair of Blue Eyes than Aen.
6.641 or Ecl. 9.40.
Simon Cauchi
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