prosequitur pavitans et ficto pectore fatur: Saepe fugam Danai Troia cupiere relicta moliri et longo fessi discedere bello: fecissentque utinam! saepe illos aspera ponti interclusit hiems et terruit Auster euntis;.
Trembling he takes up the tale and speaks with feigned emotion: Often the Greeks longed to quit Troy, compass a retreat, and depart, weary with the long war; and how I wish that they had done so! Often a fierce tempest on the deep cut them off and the gale scared them from going.