King Turnus, king of the Rutulians, leads his men.

Text: ET OPES NOBIS ET ADHVC INTACTA IVVENTVS (AEN.XI)
We still have means, a manhood still unharmed

Extract from Aeneid 11.419-424:
Sin et opes nobis et adhuc intacta iuventus
auxilioque urbes Italae populique supersunt,
sin et Troianis cum multo groria venit
sanguine sunt illis sua funera, parque per omnis
tempestas – cur indecores in limine primo
deficimus?

But if we still have means, a manhood still unharmed,
cities and nations of Italy still supporting us;
but if even the Trojans have won glory at much bloodshed’s
cost they too have their deaths, and the storm swept over all alike–
why faint we ignobly upon the threshold’s edge?

Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was accepted suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, who, however, bethrothed her to Aeneas, against the will of his wife Amata. The Latins and the Rutulians attacked the Trojans, and Aeneas finally killed Turnus during the battle.

Michel 353, Sassone 290, AFA 303.

Date of issue: 1930

Face value: 10+ 2.50 l.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:47