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VIRGIL'S ^NEID, 
 
 Books VII and VIII, 
 TRAKSLATED INTO V^RSE. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 HAViNa rushed " in medias res "—begun in the middle- 
 by first translating and publishing Books V and VI of the 
 iEneid, the Translator has been induced to proceed towards 
 the end ; and he has now the honour to publish Books VII 
 and VIII under distinguished patronage. 
 
 It has been remarked by an eminent critic, that if Virgil 
 had only written the last six Books of the JEneid he would 
 have gained immortality : the higher appreciation of the first 
 six Books— owing chiefly to the interesting narrative to 
 Queen Dido contained in them— being disproportionate. It 
 is therefore the Translator's intention, with the favour of the 
 public, to continue on to the end ; and, if Si/ared, he hopes to 
 be able to overtake the first four Books and to finish with the 
 beginnmg. 
 
 MOniitJEAL, sisij, 1870. 
 
 W. D. B. 
 
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CONTENTS.-BooK Vn. 
 
 -fflneas leares Oaiote; and,a favourable wind being rouchsafed by Neptane 
 he passes the coast of the sorceress Circd and reaches the Tiber in 
 safety. After exploring the country he sends heralds to the king— 
 Latinus ; whohad previously been prepared by portents and oracles 
 to give them a favourable reception. Juno, by the assistance of the 
 Fury Alecio, disturbs the peaceful arrangement entered into 
 Latinus resists obstinately ; and refuses to open the Gates of War" 
 Juno opens them herself, and warlike preparations are eagerlv 
 begun. Enumeration of the Italian forces. 
 
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^E^STEID, B. VII 
 
 "Thou too, Caieta, dying given hast 
 To our shores glory that shall ever last: 
 Nurse of iEneas, still thy honoured name 
 Tells where thy bones lie— if that any fame- 
 In great Hesperia.* The sad rites o'er, 
 And the tomb's mound raised high upon the shore, 
 iEneas, soon as the calmed waves permit, 
 His way with sails does take and harbour quit. 
 Into night breezes blow ; nor the moon bright 
 Forbids the course : sea gleams with trembling light. 
 
 First the Circaean lands they coast along. 
 Where Sol's rich daughter,* with assiduous song, 
 Thrills through the formidable woods and brakes,' 
 And in proud hall is keeping nighUy wakes, 
 And for light burning fragrant cedar still 
 As through fine web she plies the shuttle shrill. 
 
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 iBNEID, B. Til. 
 
 Thence wailings, as the night was wearing late, 
 And wrath of lions on their ears 'gin grate, 
 Spuming their chains and roaring : bristly swine, 
 And bears in their enclosures 'gin t whine 
 And rage, impatient of the durance foul ; 
 And shapes of monstrous wolves begin to howl : 
 Which from men's forms Circd, the goddess fell. 
 Had changed to beasts by potent herb and spelL 
 Lest such like prodigies might be the lot 
 Of pious Trojans into harbour brought 
 Or sad fate theirs augment the doleful tales, 
 Neptune* with favouring breezes filled the sails, 
 Escape affording from the ill-fated shore, 
 And them beyond the chafing shallows bore. 
 
 Sea now with rays was reddening ; high afar 
 Aurora* shining wan in rosy car. 
 When the winds ceased, every breath did stay, 
 And on smooth marble oars contending play, 
 ^neas, then, huge grove on shore espied. 
 Amid this Tiber, with delightful tide. 
 In rapid eddies, yellow with much sand. 
 Bursts forth to sea. To the stream's bed and strand 
 
JESEID, B. VII. 
 
 Birds various used, ^ound and above, 
 Soothing were the air and flitting in the grove. 
 To bend the course, the prows turn to the land, 
 And river enter— he, blithe, gives command. 
 
 Now come what kings, Erato,* I'll relate ; ^ 
 What were of things the seasons; what the state 
 Of ancient Latium, when first stranger host 
 Their fleet impelled on to Ausonian* coast. 
 And the first fight's beginnings I'll explain. . 
 Do thou the bard, goddess, prompt—sustain : 
 I'll sing of horrid wars; of armies sing; 
 Of kings to carnage driven by passion's sting; 
 And of Tyrrhenian force — Hesperia whole 
 Banded in arms. Starts up a greater roll; 
 Task greater I provoke. — Latinus, grey. 
 
 O'er fields and cities then did sceptre sway 
 
 Kingdom in long peace tranquil. Fame has sung 
 From Faunus he and nymph Laurentian sprung, 
 Marica. Faunus Picus claimed as sire ; 
 He, Saturn*, thee — source thou whence race's fire, 
 
 No son he had, no manly progeny 
 
 Snatched in youth's dawn away by Gods' decree. 
 
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 MSBID, B. VII. 
 
 One daughter house saved and laige heritage, 
 
 For wooing ripe, of marriageable age. 
 
 Many her sued from Latium wide and through 
 
 Ausoniai Fairest of all does sue, 
 
 Turnus, by lineage mighty ; whom the queen 
 
 Favoured as son-inlaw with liking keen : 
 
 But God's portents with various dread oppose. 
 
 In central court of palace there arose 
 A laurel, sacred and preserved with fear 
 For many years. The father it, found here 
 When palace's foundations first he laid— 
 Latinus had to Phoebus* sacred made 
 And to Laurentians given from it a name. 
 Wondrous to relate, hither bees thick came. 
 Borne through the liquid air with murmuring great, 
 And on its highest top conglomerate ; 
 And with their feet close knit themselves among, 
 The sudden swarm from leafy branch there hung. 
 Straightway the prophet: Foreign man I see 
 To arrive, and an armdd host, says he, 
 To the same parts, from the same parts, repair 
 And rule from lofty citadel to bear. 
 
iBNEID, B. TH. 
 
 Besides, while ohnfing altars with chaste brands 
 The young Lavinia near her parent stands, 
 She seemed with ringlets to catch fire (Ah shame I) 
 And bum in headdress all with crackling flame j.- 
 On fire braids regal ; coronet on fire, 
 With gems bedecked ; and smoky then entire 
 In yellow light to be involved, and so 
 O'er the roofs all Vulcanic* flame to strew. 
 This 'gan be deemed a dread, a wondrous sight; 
 For to herself both fame and fortune bright. 
 They said, but to people war it did portend. 
 
 Anxious »bout these portents, the king did wend 
 To oracle his way of Faunus, prophet-sire, 
 At grove of deep AlbunSa* to inquire. 
 Greatest of woods, it sounds with sacred fount 
 And, dark, exhales the fetid steams that mount. 
 Hence the Italian nations, all the land 
 Oenotrian,* in doubts replies demand. 
 Hither when priest the gifts has brought, and lain 
 On the strewed skins of sheep that have been slain, 
 'Neath silent night »nd courted sleep, he sees 
 In strange ways flitiiiig many images; 
 
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 JBNBID, B. Vn. 
 
 And various voices hears; and converse holds 
 With Gods and shades deep Acheron* unfolds. 
 
 Here father himself Latinus even then 
 
 A hundred woolly two-years duly slain^ 
 Supported on the fleecy skins did lie. 
 I'rom the grove's depths a sudden voice did cry : 
 Daughter in Latin wedlock to unite— 
 This do not, my progeny, invite. 
 Nor in prepared bridal bed place trust : 
 From foreign land comes son-in-law, who must 
 Baise by his blood our name unto the stars. 
 And of whose stock the ofiispring shall, by wars. 
 See all things turned and ruled beneath their feet 
 Where Sol in course does either ocean greet. 
 
 Response and warning, given in silent night, 
 Latinus kept not with sealed lips from light : 
 But wide around Fame, flying, it had borne 
 Through the Ausonian cities, ere the morn 
 When Trojan youth the Tiber's waves did meet. 
 And bound to grassy slope of bank the fleet. 
 
 .^neas, and chief leaders, and the fair 
 liilus,* now, their bodies lay down there 
 
iENEID, B. VII. 
 
 Beneath the branches of a lofty tree, 
 Order repast and, for the viands, see 
 Cakes of fine flour upon the herbage laid— 
 
 So the genial climate did persuade 
 
 And the bread-trenchers with wild fruits supply.^ 
 All else consumed, when now the penury 
 Of eating forced them turn to cereal plate 
 Their munching, and with hand to violate. 
 And jaws audacious, orb of fated crust 
 Nor hold from spreading squares* their hunger's lust 
 Ha ! we even the tables eat, ajesting said 
 Ittlus ; nor more he. This voice conveyed. 
 First heard, an end unto their labours great : 
 It, first rejoiced that they should terminate. 
 Eager from speaker's mouth the father caught 
 And, by the omen stunned, pressed deep in thought. 
 Then,— Hail, he says, land by Fates due to me ! 
 And you, Troy's faithful household-gods, hail ye ! 
 Here home, this country is: for now in mind 
 These secret fates, by parent left, I find :— 
 When on strange shore hunger thee, son, shall force 
 To eat the tables as the last resource, 
 
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 JBNEID, B. Vn. 
 
 Bemember then homes, weary, to expect 
 
 And there, with rampart girt, first roofs to ereot. 
 
 This was that hunger ; these what last remained 
 
 To set a limit to our ills, now gained. 
 
 Wherefore arouse ; and blithe with sun*s first light 
 
 What place, and who the men, where, too, the site 
 
 Of people's city let us investigate. 
 
 And from port devious our seai^bh dilate. 
 
 To Jove now make libation ; and invite 
 
 By prayer Anohises,* — ^the wine expedite. 
 
 This having said, his brows he then does grace 
 With leafy branch ; and Genius of the place 
 And Earth— of Gods the first — and Nymphs does pray^ 
 And, yet unknown, the Bivers there that stray ; 
 Then Night and, signs of night, the Stars that rove 
 Invokes in order, and Idsean Jove* 
 And Phrygian mother, Gybeld,* as due. 
 And in the heavens and ^ades his parents two. 
 Then from the lofty sky thrice thundered loud 
 The Almighty father, and in hand a cloud. 
 Glowing with light and tinged with golden rays. 
 Shaking in air serene himself displays. 
 
JESEJDy B. VII. • 
 
 Quick through the Trojau host now spreads the hum- 
 
 The day to build the promised walls has come ; 
 
 Feasts they renew, and, cheered by smile divine, 
 
 Th^ cups prepare, and crown the cups with wine. 
 When the next dayspringgirt earth with first light 
 
 The confines of the nation, and the site 
 
 Of city, and the windings of the shore 
 
 In all directions devious they explore. 
 
 The depths of fount Numicus these, they tell ; 
 
 This river Tiber ; here brave Latins dwell. 
 
 Chosen from every rank a hundred men 
 
 Heralds to go JEneas ordered then 
 
 To royal city, olive^eoked all too. 
 
 Gifts bear the man and peace for Trojans sue. 
 Delay was none: they that are ordered haste 
 And with quick steps are borne. He himself traced. 
 With humble trench, of walls the bounding line • 
 And carefnlly the place he does design j 
 And the first seate that on the shore he founds 
 In form of camp with rampart he surrounds. 
 
 And now, way sped, the towers the men descry 
 And lofty Latin roofs, the walls draw nigh. 
 
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 iBNEID, B. Vil. 
 
 Before the city boys and, in life's pride, 
 Youths exercise with horses, chariots guide ; 
 Or tough bows they bend, or they javelins light 
 In arms wield ; by course and by dart excite ; 
 When messenger, on horse despatched, conveys 
 To ears of aged king the news, in phrase — 
 Men of strange garb and of huge size are here. 
 He bicid invite them inside walls to appear. 
 And took 'mid jend^ m grandsire's throne his seat, 
 Prepared m all due form his guests to meet. 
 On city's highest point there was a dome, 
 Once Laurentian Picus' royal home, 
 August, huge, high, on hundred pillars reared ; 
 Awful with woods ; from parents' reverence feared. 
 Thence to receive the sceptre, first raise high 
 There badge of power to kings gave sanctity. 
 This temple was and state-house ■ this the scene 
 Of sacred feasts ; here fathers wont convene 
 And at long tables sit, when ram was slain. 
 Statues ancestral, too, in a long train. 
 Of ancient cedar made, in porch did stand ; 
 Italus, and Sabinus sire, in hand 
 
-aiNBID, B. VII. 
 
 Holdiop;- vine-plantep he-a crooked bill- 
 Ari af^M Saturn; and, two-fronted still ' 
 Janus'* form ; and kings yet more ancient there 
 VVho for their country martial wounds did bear. - 
 Many arms, besides, inside doors were hune- 
 Cars captured and curved axes them amon^ • 
 And crests of heads ; and huge bars from gates borne, 
 And darts, and shields, and beaks from vessels torn. 
 in small trahSa robed was sitting by 
 Pious* himself, horse-tamer; raised high 
 Quirinal rod— such augurs wont to wield— 
 And his left hand adorned with festive shield 
 Whom, for her passion's force he did withstand, 
 
 His lover Circ^-atruck by her golden wand 
 And by her poisons ohanged-a bird did make, 
 And er the wings did varied colours shake. 
 
 In such a temple of the gods, ancestral seat, 
 Latmus waite the Trojans called to greet. 
 Arrivea, he them addressed in peaceful tone : 
 
 V sons of Dardaniis* fi^. ..«* .,_i 
 
 I-o us your city or your race, to ear 
 FamiUar ye your way do hither steer— 
 
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 -ffiNEID, B. VII. 
 
 What seek ye ? say. What canse, or lacking anght, 
 To the Ausonian shores your barks has brought, 
 So many dark seas traversed in your course ? 
 Driven by way's errour, or by tempest's force — 
 Many such haps they meet with on the deep — 
 Have ye our river entered, harbour keep ? 
 Flee not hospitality ; nor ignore 
 The Latins, Saturn's people, days of yore ; 
 Just by no bond or laws, by their own will 
 And great god's usage self-restraining still. 
 The old Arunci, I remember well — 
 By years somewhat obscured the fame— did tell, 
 From these fields sprung, that Dardanus did go 
 To Phrygian* Ida's city; and also 
 To Thracian Samos, now called Samothrace — 
 Thus far his wanderings on earth did trace. 
 Gone from Tyrrhenian Corythus, hard by. 
 The golden palace of the starry sky 
 To throne now him admits : on high hcdwells, 
 And by his altars roll of Gods he swells. 
 He spoke. Ilioneus thus made reply : 
 king, Faunus' illustrious progeny, 
 
-fiNEID, B. VII. 
 
 Neither dark storm us tossed by waves did force 
 i^our lands to approach ; nor star nor shore from course 
 Did us beguile: we all by wise forethought, 
 And willingly, are to this city brought— 
 Driven from a kingdom once the greatest held ^ 
 1 hat coming sun from farthest heaven beheld 
 In Jove our race's pedigree is lost ; 
 Dardanian youth of Jove as parent boast • 
 Our king himself, from Jove by high descent. 
 Us to thy threshold Troy's ^neas sent. 
 How great a storm from fell Mycen** coursed 
 O er the Idaean* plains; by what fates forced 
 Europe and Asia's orbs 'gainst other clashed- 
 Even he has heard whom, ocean interdashed 
 Last earth removes ; or whom sun's zone sev'ere. 
 Mid the four zones stretched, parts from hither sphere 
 From that great deluge borne, such vast seas o'er, 
 We for our country's Gods scant seat implore • 
 And coast secure, where harm may not befall •' 
 And water, too, and air made frA« to •>" ' 
 Not to your kingdom shall we ere bring'shame- 
 Nor insignificant shall be your fame ; 
 
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 JENEID, B. Vn. 
 
 And not the graoiousness of such great deed 
 Shall be forgotten ages that succeed ; 
 Nor shall Ausonia have cause to grieve 
 That to her bosom she did Troy receive. 
 !By Eneas' fates I swear ; by right hand 
 In friendship firm, in war hard to withstand — 
 Peoples and nations many [let not deter 
 That wreaths and speech of beggars we prefer] 
 Themselves with us to ally have sought — desired 
 But Fates of Gods by their commands required 
 That your lands we should find ; hence sprung, 
 Hither does Dardanus return. And sung 
 Great oracles Apollo — to seek did urge 
 Tyrrhenian Tiber, famed Numicus' surge. 
 Small gifts of former fortune, relics rent , 
 From burning Troy, he thee besides has sent : 
 Father Anchises with this cup of gold 
 Wont make libations ; this of Priam* old, 
 "When to called people he gave laws, the wear — 
 Sceptre, and sacred tiar, an^ robes rare. 
 The work of Trojan women. While this says 
 Ilioneus, his face fixed in keen gaze 
 
iBNEID, B' Vir. 
 
 Latinns holds, and motionless does stay 
 Pijing observant eyes : nor purple gay 
 So much the king moves, Priam's sceptre so 
 As on his daughter's nuptials his thoughts flow ^' 
 And oracle recall of Faunus old : 
 This is that son-in-law by Fates foretold 
 From foreign seat to come, and called to reign 
 With equal auspices in our domain • 
 Hence that race, for valour famed, to spring 
 Who the whole world beneath their sway shall bring. 
 Then joyed he says : The Gods my purpose speel 
 And their own augury I What thou dosL plead, 
 1 rojan, is granted ; nor gifts I disdain • 
 Not while Latinus lives, as king does reign, 
 J^at of rich land, or opulence of Troy 
 Ye e'er shall lack-needs not this care to annoy. 
 Let but JEneas come himself—sith he 
 For us such hankering hath, sith to be 
 Joined in league hospitable he does haste 
 
 And with the namfi nf n\\^ *^ k ,- j 
 
 Nor let him from face friendly flinch so much • 
 The monarch's hand 'twere pledge of peace to touch. 
 
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 ^NEID, B. Vn. 
 
 Now to your king back carry my reply. — , 
 I have a daughter, whom with man to ally, 
 Of our own race, not the fates allow 
 From dark retreat which father did avow ; 
 And heaven's great portents, too, us debar ; 
 That son-in-law shall come from coasts afar — 
 That this remains for Latium they proclaim — 
 Who by his blood to stars shall laise our name. 
 That this that man is whom the Fates require 
 I think — if augurs true my mind, desire. 
 
 This said : the father horses chose from all — 
 Three hundred stood, each sleek in lofty stall — 
 And them to Trojans straight he bids be led, 
 With purple and gay housings furnished : 
 Poitrels of gold hang dangling from their neck; 
 Covered with gold, gold 'neath their teeth they check ; 
 Car and twin-team for ^neas, absent sire, 
 From heavenly source, their nostrils breathing fire ; 
 Of mixed breed, which, by surreptitious, foal, 
 Dsedalian Circd^ from her father stole. 
 With these Latinus* gifts and words resort 
 The Trojans, horsed, to camp and peace report. 
 
iBNEID, B. VII. 
 
 But lo ! from Argos back her course then steering 
 Jove s cruel sj ouse* was through the air careering 
 -^neas safe, and Trojan fleet, from sky 
 Far as Pachynus' cape she did descry : ^ ' 
 
 That they already homes build she remarks ; 
 Trust in the land, deserted have their barks/ 
 With anguish pierced her flight she did arrest ; 
 Then, her head shaking, lightens thus her breast : 
 Ah I stock detested, and, to my fates thwart, 
 Fates of Phrygians !* Have they by sword and dart 
 Fallen on Sigaean* plains ? Or even could they. 
 Taken, be taken ? Or has Troy burning, say. 
 The men consumed ? 'Mid arms they have a way. 
 Mid flames found. Godship mine, I think, at length 
 Lies wearied, or hate-sated spares its strength. 
 Nay, I with purpose fell dared to pursue 
 O'er the whole deep the expatriated crew— 
 'Gainst Trojans spent powers both of sky and 8ea 
 What good did Syrtes ? Scylla, what to me ? 
 What has availed me even Charybdis* vast ? 
 They in wished Tiber's channel moor at last, 
 Secure from deep and me. Mars* had the j^wer 
 
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 The Lapithfld, a fierce race, to devour; 
 
 The ancient Calydon to ^Diana's ire 
 
 Himself conceded — ^he, of Oods the sire. 
 
 What crime or Lapithse did perpetrate, 
 
 Or Calydon, deserving such a fate ? 
 
 Yet I, great spouse of Jove, who nought undared 
 
 Have, hapless, left — to all things have repaired — 
 
 Am by ^neas balked. But if ^dship 
 
 Proves me not great enough, I with poor lip 
 
 To ask any where what is wont shrink : ah well I — 
 
 If bend high Gods I can't, I will move hell. 
 
 To bar denied 'tis from Latinus' throne — 
 
 Be't — and Lavinia fated is his own ; 
 
 But protract I may— clog with stops great things ; 
 
 But I the people may ruin — of both kings. 
 
 At such cost of their own let them their power 
 
 By marriage bonds unite. Virgin, thy dower 
 
 Blood — Trojan and Rutulian* — shall be ; 
 
 And, as bridemaid, Bellona* awaiteth thee. 
 
 Not with torch pregnant Hecuba* alone 
 
 Bore nuptial fire ; like birth was Venus' own* ; 
 
 Behold another Paris in her boy ; 
 
iBNBID, B. YII. 
 
 Agf^in torch fatal to reviving Troy. 
 
 When thus Bhe spoke, awful to earth she made- 
 And from the dire sisters' seat, infernal shade 
 
 She calls the grim Alecto*, who sad wars 
 
 And anger loves, and snares, and noxious jars : 
 
 Even Pluto* hates, the hellish sisters hate 
 
 The monster; she so aye does simulate 
 
 With features many ; such wild shapes she takes ; 
 
 ^d hideous bristles with .0 many snakes • 
 
 Whom Juno now with these words 'gins indte : 
 
 This special labour, vii^n born of Night, 
 
 This service grant; lest worship mine and fame 
 
 Crumbled give way, and Trojans (hated name) 
 
 By mamage should Latiuus circumvent 
 
 And settle within Italy's extent. ' 
 
 Thou canst stir brothers knit in unity 
 
 To wranglings fell ; with hate the amity 
 
 Of homes subvert ; 'neath roof-trees thou canst bring 
 
 Broils aaddeath-bearing firebrands on thy wing: 
 Ihou hast a thousand namwi. ha'~ v -*--- 
 
 . - ; xiKiiu tO abbiua 
 
 A thousand arts ; cudgel thy fertile brain ; 
 The sealed peace sever; sow of war the pleas , 
 
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 Let youths arms wish, at once both crave and seize 
 
 Straightway with Gorgonian* poison imbued 
 Alecto first on high her way pursued 
 To Latium, and Laurentian kings' abode, 
 And queen Amata's quiet sill bestrode : 
 Whom, touching Turnus* love and Troy's advent, 
 Cares feminine and anger hot torment. 
 One snake the goddess from her dark locks darts 
 Into her bosom, nigh to her heart of hearts ; 
 So she, hence maddened, might the house all confound. 
 Betwixt her dress and bosom soft it wound. 
 Gliding unfelt, and her wild docs beguile, 
 Infusing spirit viperine the while. 
 The monstrous snake the twisted gold becomes 
 Upon her neck ; of headdress it becomes 
 The ribbon long; and clips around her hair ; 
 And o'er her members wanders lubric e'er. 
 And while first the pest, which the moist poison laps, 
 Her senses searches, bones in fire wraps. 
 Nor flame as yet does inmost soul attain — 
 She softly spoke in mother's wonted strain, 
 For daughter's Phrygian nuptials drowned in tears : 
 
-fiNBID, B. Vn- 
 
 father, haa it fallen as my worst fears, 
 io Trojan exile given to be wed 
 
 Lavinia ?— daughter, self unpiti^ : 
 
 nrj^if r ^' ""^'"^ ^^*^ *^« fi"* breeze 
 He will abandon-making for the seas- 
 
 Ferfidious robber-virgin stolen away 
 
 Comes not thus the Phrygian shepherd,* pray 
 
 To Sparta, and Lyd»an Helen bore 
 
 JL'S^I?^ Why pledged before 
 Thy faith? Why old care of famUy band? 
 And so oft given to Turnus, kin, right hand ? 
 II i^atms/oretyn son-in-law require • 
 And that holds; and the orders of thy sire 
 Faunus do thee oppress-I verily 
 All lands apart and from our sceptre free 
 Do/om^n deem , and that the Gods so taught. 
 
 And If of TuW house first rise is soughtf 
 He can claim Inachus, for ancestry. 
 
 Acrisius— and heart of Mycenae* 
 
 When Latinus, tried by these words in vain 
 
 ^ne sees la posture obstinate remain • * 
 
 And into vitals deep the insane fire ' 
 
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 Of snake has crept, and her pervades entire — 
 Then, wretched quite, hy dire chimeras lashed, 
 Maddened she raging fierce through city dashed. 
 As wont a top, heneath the twirled stroke flying, 
 Which eager hoys in circuit great are plying 
 Round empty halls in sport. It, driven hy thong, 
 In curving hounds is borne : the unskilled throng 
 Wonders, and youthful band, the whirling box 
 Admiring : it gains spirit from the shocks. 
 In fashion than that running not more mild, 
 She through mid towns is driven and peoples wild. 
 
 Dared greater outrage ; greater frenzy tried ; 
 Bacchus'^ rites feigning into woods she hied, 
 And daughter on the leafy hills secludes — 
 Thinking she Trojan nuptials thus eludes — 
 EvoS, Bacchus, shouting ; that alone 
 Worthy thou the maiden crying in shrill tone. — 
 Indeed that she for thee did limber lance 
 Assume ; led around thee the choral dance ; 
 To thee devoted her hair cherished 
 A rumour flies. — ^And, by furies kiadlM 
 Within their bosom, a like ardour keen 
 
^^BID, B. vn. 
 
 New roofs to seek under the woodland green 
 At the «me time the mothers .11 did seTe ' 
 Homes they desert; necks give and look, to bree« • 
 
 An^w.th skins b^rt, spears vinenleoked the; bear 
 Herself, „ centre, flaming torch high swings 
 Daughter and Tumus' bridal wildly sin« ' 
 Bolang her bloodshot eyes ; and fitfuUv 
 She sternly oaJls : Holla ( where'er ye be, 
 Ye Latin mothers, every one give ear : 
 ^ w your pious minds ye still revere 
 
 Ye for her right maternal haply share. 
 Thus did Alecto cause the queen to flee, 
 
 Fi.t^uries-^tHthe.unsJstSor^"' 
 And of Latrnus the whole house embroUed- 
 
 Stijaight the sad goddess thence on dusky wine ' 
 Isborns to wails of bold Rutulian king: ^ 
 
 Which city DanaS did found, 'tis said. 
 
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 With Aoriflian colonistB conveyed 
 
 Thither by stormy wind: the place, of yore, 
 
 The name Ardua, given by fathers, bore ; 
 
 And Ardga, name great, does still remain. 
 
 But good luck was : in palace high just then 
 
 Tumus at dead of night in deep sleep lay. 
 
 Wild look and members of the Fury stray 
 
 Alecto doffs ; into old woman's mien 
 
 Herself transforms, and the forehead obscene 
 
 In wrinkles ploughs ; white hair dons with fillet bound 
 
 And branch of olive intertwines around ; 
 
 Becomes Calyb^, Juno's priestess old, 
 
 And the youth's eyes before her story told : 
 
 Tumus, wilt bear to have in vain so striven, — 
 
 And to Troy's colonists thy sceptre given? 
 
 Marriage and dower, won by blood, the king 
 
 Scouts ; and into realm foreign heir does bring. 
 
 Go now, thou laughingstock, thyself expose 
 
 To thankless dangers 1 Go 1 Tyrrhenian foes 
 
 Prostrate ; o'er peaceful Latins thy shield throw. 
 
 nnv:« Vtnmialf 9ofni>*pio^ VkodA m(\ sh^w 
 
 To thee while lying in the tranquil night. 
 
•«NBID, B. vn. 
 
 Wherefore, aro|ie : aad the youth all for fi„ht 
 Make „ady quick ; both to be armed and thLh 
 On fai .?* "T'' '■ ""' ^""^Sian leader, who ' 
 gJuZT"^ ^'""' P""''^' ''""'-«aeh painted keel 
 
 Turnus; and at length in arms too essay. ' 
 
 Then the youth m turn the priestess jeering 
 Thus «pe,k, : That fleet to the Tiber stLing^ 
 In stream hes moored, has not eseaped my ea^ 
 As thou dost think, feign me not sueh great fls • 
 And royal Juno's thoughts I still engage ■ ' 
 
 But spent with eld, barren of truth dd age 
 O mother, thee with cares in vain does ply ' 
 
 C^re tUne Gof ' "'" '"" '''" •>»- •>«'- 
 T ^ '^'^' ""»g^s and shrines to watch • 
 
 xrt::'''"vr"'''''»''-^-i>>. 
 
 Aleoto at these words blamed forth in ire 
 But the youth suddenly with trembling dire 
 Is seized wh.le speaking; in each limb he Lv.^ 
 ->-es set ,n sockets; with so many snakes ' 
 
 ftsses the awful Fury, and such mien 
 
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 Itself discloses, hideous to be seen. ' 
 
 Then, rolling with wild force her fiery eyes, 
 
 Him, as he halted and to say more tries, 
 
 She did repel ; and from Tartarean hair* 
 
 Of serpents she erected straight a pair ; 
 
 Sounded her thong ; and vented thus her rage :' 
 
 Lo I eld-spent I — whom, of truth barren, age 
 
 'Mid feuds of kings ivith false fear does belie ! 
 
 Look thou to this : here from the seat am I 
 
 Of the dire sisters ; wars in hand I bring 
 
 And death. This said : she to the youth did fling 
 
 A brand ; 'neath breast fixed torches with dark light 
 
 Smoking. Sleep ruptured was by intense fright. 
 
 From his whole body forth the sw; at did pour, 
 
 Through bones, through joints : arms ! — he wild does roar 
 
 On couch, through house craves arms j fumes without bar 
 
 Steel's lust, the bad insanity of war ; 
 
 And anger more: As when with crackling great. 
 
 Up sides of surging pot is borne elate 
 
 The brush-fed flame, and with the fervent heat 
 
 Exults the liquid fount from lowest seat : 
 
 Within the water's force outrageous grows, 
 
^NEID, B. VII. 
 
 And high m foam a smoky stream o'erflows • 
 Nor surge holds now-flies vapour dark to air. 
 He therefore the first youths of his repair 
 To king Latinus warns, peace being ended. 
 Arms to be prepared ; Italy defended 
 He gives command ; to drive from land the foe- 
 Match he -gainst Trojans, Latins, both to go. 
 This done : and when the Gods he had invoked 
 Eutahans keen themselves to arms provoked. 
 Oneof his form andyouth the rare grace pleads ; 
 
 m7 kT' '^'' "S*"' ■"""• f^"^'' by deed!. 
 Whilst bold words to Kutulians Turnus speaks, 
 
 On Stygian wings* Alecto, Trojans seeks. 
 With new device. A place on shore espying 
 Where fair lulus the wild beasts was pljinc 
 With snares and chase, Cocytiun virgin straight 
 The hounds with sudden madness did inflate 
 Md tinged their nostrils with the well-know; scoot, 
 That they should hunt the stag with eager bent ■ 
 Which the first cause of ills was, now not far ' 
 ■ana iunUied up the rustic minds to war. 
 A stag there was of form and antlers rare. 
 
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 And of great size ; which Tyrrheus' sons did tear 
 From suckling dam away and homeward led, 
 And ever since had fondly cherished — 
 Sire Tyrrheus, too, to whom belonged the charge 
 Of royal herds o'er plains in circuit large. 
 The savage beast, obedient to her beck, 
 Their sister Sylvia tenderly would deck, 
 Twining with garlands fresh its antlers brave, 
 And comb, and in the limpid fountain lave. 
 Patient of hand, to master's board well ta'en, 
 In woods 'twas wont to wander, and again 
 Of own accord at night tho' late the track 
 Home to the well-known threshold measure back. 
 As he did hunt, lulus' furious hounds 
 Startled it wandering in distant bounds, 
 When down by chance a river's gentle tide 
 It floats and heat soothes on its grassy side. 
 Himself Ascanius, kindled by the glow 
 Of glorious fame, upon the curved bow 
 His arrow stretched with care—not yet in war 
 Accustomed arms to wield — nor distant far 
 From wandering right hand goddess was to speed. 
 
iENEID, B. VII, 
 
 Both through body, and through flanks the reed 
 With loud twang driven came. But the quadruped, 
 Wounded, unto the well-known dwelling fled 
 
 With plaint like one beseeching whole house filled. 
 Sylvia first, beating with palms her arms 
 Assistance caJls, and rustics rude alarms. ' 
 They---for in quiet woods skulked cruel pest- 
 Unlooked-for come : with quenched brand, his best. 
 One armed; one with knotted club; what to each falls 
 ^-xploring weapon anger makes. The bands calls, 
 As fissile oak by chance with wedge he cracks 
 Tyrrheus puffing mightily with grappled axe. ' 
 But the fell goddess, from ward having spied 
 Of harming chance, to stable's steep roofs hied. 
 Forth shepherd-signal straight from summit thrilled • 
 The crooked horn with voice Tartarean filled 
 At once, pervaded with the infernal sound 
 Trembled each grove, thundered the woods profound; 
 Heard even the lake of Trivia afar ; ' 
 
 With sulphury waters white, heard river Nar ; 
 The piercing notes founts of Velinus gained 
 And trembling mothers babes t» bosoms strdned 
 
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 Then, without foil, where'er the trumpet dire 
 The signal gave, quickly, their miuds on fire, 
 The hoorish husbandmen did, at the sound. 
 Seizing their arms convene the country round. 
 Trojans, no less, from the ports open laid 
 Of camp poured out Ascanius to aid. 
 In line they formed : nc t now rude contest wakes 
 With heavy clubs and iire-hardeiied stakes : 
 With two-edged* steel strive they; and, in field wide. 
 Sad crop with drawn swords waves from side to side ; 
 And gleams san-btafcen, brazen armour bright. 
 And to the heavens sends back the flickering light. 
 As when begins a billow, with first breeze. 
 To whiten ; the sea rouses by degrees, 
 And higher lifts its waves ; then by and by 
 From lowest depths uprises to the sky. 
 To twanging arrow, then, 'fore the first rank 
 The eldest son of Tyrrheus, Almon sank : 
 For closed 'neath throat the wound with blood both way 
 Of w1iAA7.in9 ^mce. and slender life did stav : 
 Around him bodies many ; and the old 
 Galesus, whilst for peace he mediates bold. 
 
-ffiNEID, B. vn. 
 
 The justest man of all by far was he, 
 
 And richest once in soil of Italy • 
 
 Five flocks to him, five herds with night came round, 
 
 And with a hundred ploughs he turned the ground. 
 Whilst through the fields 'tis fought with equal fate. 
 
 The goddess, gained what she did stipulate 
 Now that with blood she had the war bedewed 
 And the first battle-field with corses strewed J 
 Hesperia leaves; and, wafted through the skv 
 bhe Juno tLus accosts triumphantly ; ' 
 
 Lo .'-discord perfected by gloomy war I 
 Bid them in friendship join, yoke federal car I 
 Since I Ausonian blood have sprinkled o'er 
 The Trojans, I besides will add this more— 
 If well assured such is thy will, my law— 
 
 Inte the fray I will by rumours draw ' 
 
 The neighbouring cities, and their minds so fire 
 
 That they; impelled by war's insane desire, 
 
 S "' r.^!*_^^^" ^^-^S^ ^'^ I'il scatter arms, 
 i^unu w luis : Or fraud and of alarms 
 
 Enough !— 'stablished the causes of war's woes :] 
 T.S now fought hand to hand with arms; even those 
 
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 litiilit 
 
 Which from good fortune they at first obtained, 
 With fresh blood those arms even have been stained. 
 Let them suoh nuptials with such paeans sing, 
 Venus' famed offspring and Latinus king ! 
 That thou more freely roam the ethereal breeze 
 May not the father, high heaven's ruler, please. 
 The places quit : of labour what remains 
 I will myself direct — spare thou thy pains. 
 
 Soon as these words Saturnia uttered. 
 Her wings the Fury, with snakes hissing, spread 
 And to Cocytus' region took her way, 
 Leaving the lofty heights of upper day. 
 A place is in mid Italy — renowned 
 And fame to many a coast has borne the sound — 
 'Neath lofty mountains, called Amsanctus' vale. 
 On either part descending woods the dale 
 Darken with dense foliage ; and, from crag that bounds, 
 In middle a torrent 'mong rocks raging sounds. , 
 
 Here, dreadful cave, the breathing place is shown 
 Of the infernal king; and, Acheron 
 Bursted to depths profound, the yawning vast 
 From open jaws sends forth a noxious blast : 
 
-ilNEID, fe. VII. 
 
 Into which Erinnys* being roceived 
 Odious goddess I-earth and heaven 'relieved. 
 
 Saturnia notwithstanding to the war 
 Puts the last hand.-From battlefield, not far -" 
 The shepherds all to city quick resort 
 And make of youthful Almon's death report • 
 Galesus' too, lips grimed that mediate : 
 And Gods implore ; Latinus imprecate. 
 Turnus is here; and, as complaint proceeds 
 Augments the fear of fire and sword; and pleads 
 That call to Trojans into realm is given • 
 Phrygian race allied; self from threshold driven 
 Then those whose mothers through the pathless grove. 
 By Bacchus fired, in dancing choirs did rove 
 (Nor small the weight of queen Amata's name) 
 Collected from all parts together came. 
 Burning with wrong; and fell Mars ag'itate. 
 Forthwith, they all, 'gainst omens and 'gainst fate. 
 With perverse will war impious demand, 
 
 And ursrenf rnnnd T"*'- — ♦ ^- - • j 
 
 He them resists ; as unmoved ocean-rock- 
 As ocean-rock 'gainst a great coming shoiJk ; 
 
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 Which by its vast mass does itself sustain, 
 Waves many baying round : th^ shelves in vain 
 And foaming stones are sounding wild around ; 
 And 'gainst side dashed the weeds with sea rebound. 
 But powerless the blind counsel to overthrow, 
 And since by cruel Juno's nod things go, 
 Much having called the Gods in vain and heaven, 
 Vanquished by Fates, he cries, I'm tempest-driven. 
 Ye this impiety yourselves shall pay 
 With sacrilegious blood. wretched day I 
 Thine, Tumus, is the guilt : thee shall await 
 Sad punishment ; the Gods with vows too late 
 Thou shalt respect. For me : my rest is gained 
 And the last harbour, in full view, attained ; 
 Of blest death only spoiled. No more he said ? 
 In house ensconced him ; reins abandoned. 
 
 A custom was in Latium of old ; 
 Which Alban cities aye did sacred hold, 
 Now Home observes — ^greatest— of states the state — 
 When first to battle Mars they instigate : 
 
 7t Iturili^i gwiu0V Vjiuixw UUlclUl TT OX lAJ WCtU"-""" 
 
 Hyrcani or the Arabs — they prepare ; 
 
iENEID, B. VII. 
 
 Or 'gainst Indians go and to Aurora's land 
 And standards from the Parthians demand. 
 There are two Gates of War—so they're yclept— 
 By reverent fear of fell Mars sacred kept : 
 A hundred brazen bolts them and iron close 
 Nor guardian Janus* e'er from threshold goes. 
 These, when for war th« fathers grave havl voted, 
 Himself— by trahea Quirinal noted, 
 Gabinian cincture too— the consul wide 
 Opens, as they on creaking hinges slide : 
 Himself to fights calls; then the youth also ; 
 And brazen trumps in harsh agreement blow. 
 By this rite to declare 'gainst Trojans war 
 Latinus now is urged,— dread gates to unbar. 
 From touch abstains he ; and averted shrinks 
 From service foul ; to secret shades he slinks. 
 The queen of Gods then gliding from the sky 
 Herself with hand the lingering gates did try j 
 And having turned with ease the hinge accurst 
 The iron gates of war Satumia burst. 
 
 Listless before, Ausonia now does glow. 
 Part to the field prepare on foot to go ; 
 
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 Part, mounted high on steeds — hot their desire — 
 And covered o'er with dust. All arms require. 
 Smooth shields and bright spears part to burnish set 
 With tallow fat J on grindstone hatchets whet. 
 To hear trump's clang delights, and standards bear* 
 On sturdy anvils five great towns prepare 
 Weapons — Atina mighty and Tibur high-bred, 
 Ardea and Crustumeri and turretted 
 AntennaQ : coverings scoop heads to defend ; 
 And wiokerwork for shields of willow bend ; 
 Corslets from the ductile brass express, 
 Or from silver greaves, of limbs the dress. 
 Hither did tend of share and bill the pride ; 
 Hither all love of plough set in full tide ; 
 Their fathers' swords they furbish. And now sound 
 Trumpets to war ; passes the watchword- round : — 
 This man from house in haste his helmet snatches ; 
 That, neighing steeds by force to yoke attaches. 
 And shield, and, with gold threefold woven, does don 
 His coat of mail ; and trusty sword girds on. 
 Ope, MuseB, Helicon'^ and move my verse. 
 I would what kings were roused to war rehearse ; 
 
iENEID, B. VII. 
 
 What battalions followed in the train 
 
 Of all and each, and overspread the plain ; 
 
 With what men Italy e'en then overflowed, 
 
 All-bounteous land I—with what arms she glowed. 
 
 Ye, goddesses, remember, can relate : 
 
 To us scarce Fame's spent breezes permeate. 
 
 Scomer of Gods, fierce from Tyrrhenian coast, 
 Mezentius firit war enters, arms his host. 
 Son nigh him, Lausus j than whom one more fair 
 Was not, except Laurentian Turnus, there. 
 Lausus, horsetamer, of wild beasts the bane, 
 A thousand men Agylline led in vain ; 
 In paternal rule worth happier lot, 
 And that his sire Mezentius were not. 
 
 Son of fair Hercules,* behind these fair 
 Aventinus o'er the green sward did bear, 
 Of palm-decked chariot and prize-horses vain ; 
 And on his shield did father's arms sustain— 
 A hundred snakes, and hydra snakes entwine. 
 Him Khea, in woods of Mount Aventine,* 
 By secret birth did usher into day : 
 The god and priestess meeting by the way 
 
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 What time, victorious over Geryon* slain 
 Laurentian fields Tirynthius did gain 
 And in Tyrrhenian river oxen washed of Spain. 
 Javelins in hand they bear, concealed by art ; 
 And fight with fine point of Sabellian dart. 
 Dismounted, he, whirling huge lion's skin — 
 Dreadful with shaggy hair, white teeth that grin — 
 Head therewith dressed, and entered palace so : 
 From shoulders the Herculean robe* did flow, 
 
 Tiburtine city, then, twin brothers leave 
 [Brother Tiburtus' name the race receive] 
 Catillus and bravo Coras, Argives young. 
 And 'fore first rank are borne dense arms among 
 Like two cloud-bred* Centaurs ; when from top high 
 Of mountain they descend in Thessaly ; 
 Omol6 leaving with a torrent's force, 
 Or snowy Othrys in their rapid course : 
 The wood immense gives way as on they dash, 
 And branchy thickets yield with startling crash. 
 
 Nor founder of Proenestine city failed : 
 Of whom the fame in every age prevailed 
 That he a king was born to Vulcan, sire, 
 
-«!NEID, B. Vir. 
 
 'Mong rustic flocks and found inwrapt in fire— 
 
 Coeculus. Legion rustic him attends : 
 
 Both those whom forth the high Proenestd sends: 
 
 And who in fields of Gabian Juno dwell • 
 
 On banks of the cold Anio as well, ' 
 
 And Hernician rocks by streams bedewed : 
 
 Whom, rich Anagnia, thou suppliest with food; 
 
 \Vhom, father Amasenus, thou. Not found 
 
 All these with arms; nor shields nor chariots sound : 
 
 Ihe greater part balls scatter thick in air 
 
 Of blue lead made ; part ja- v two each, bear 
 
 In hand ; and for a cove ..,g to head 
 
 With skin of tawny w.lf are bonnetted. 
 
 Their custom was tu march with left foot bare • 
 
 On t'other buskin of raw hide they wear. ' 
 
 Of Neptune equestrian Messapus shoot— 
 Whom none with fire or sword to death might put- 
 Peoples long tranquil, used not to battlefields 
 Calls suddenly to arms, again glave wields. 
 Fescenninfis insf, Poli'a/.; *x ^ • 
 
 These own Soract^'s heights, Plavinian plain 
 Lake Ciminus with mount, Oapena's grove. 
 
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 Like numbered march they and king chant they love : 
 
 As snowy swans 'mong clouds oft high in air 
 
 When they from feeding back to haunts repair 
 
 And through long necks give forth their piercing note : 
 
 Stream struck resounds, fen Asia remote. 
 
 Nor could one think that of so great a host 
 
 The armed ranks mixed, but from sea's surge to coast 
 
 That airy cloud of hoarse birda forced flight bent. 
 
 Lo !— from the ancient Sabines by descent, 
 Clausus great host leading, himself a host ; ' ^ 
 
 Of whom, diffused through Latium, now boast 
 The Clfludian tribe and nation, from the day 
 When Eome was given in part to Sabine sway. 
 With him large force from Amiternum went 
 And ancient Cur^s ; troops Eretum sent 
 And famed Mutuscae, that rich olives yields; 
 Those who Nomentum own, Velinus' fields, 
 Tetrica's rough rocks and Severus' mount, 
 Casperia, Foruli, Himella's fount j 
 Who Tiber drink and Fabaris; whom lent 
 
 IjoIH N^nrcio • i%nA TT/\«4-»'a — ., l ^ . 
 
 And Latin tribes j and whom, ill-fated name. 
 
iENBID, B. vn. 
 
 AUia* did, by stream dividing, claim. 
 
 As many waves o'er Lybian sea are rolled 
 
 When winter tide does fierce Orion* hold : 
 
 By fresh sun scorched, as thick the ears of grain -^ 
 
 On Hermus' fields or Lycia's ripening plain. 
 
 Sh^Ids sound; and trembles earth 'neath tread waked of feet. 
 
 Halesus, then, (who erst for sire did greet 
 Agamemnon) foe to name Trojan bred— 
 To oar joined horses and to Tumus led 
 A thousand peoples fierce ; those who cultivate 
 Mount Massicus, to Bacchus consecrate • 
 And whom from high hills sires Aruncian sent • 
 And who the Sidicinian shores frequent ; 
 And who Cal^s leave ; and the dweller by 
 Vultumus' shelvy stieam ; in company 
 The rough Saticulan, and Osoian band. 
 ^ These bear as darts small acUdis in hand 
 But them with limber thong they wont project. 
 Cetra, leather shield, left hand does protect : 
 Curved swords or falchinng fK^« ;« «v.. -c-vx .. „ 
 
 ° ~-"-j *" viGoc ugUl use. 
 
 Nor Shalt thou pass unnoticed by the muse 
 OSbald ; whom 'tis said to Telon bore 
 
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 The nymph Sebethid^, when, young no more, 
 
 Capreae's isle he did 'neath sway obtain, 
 
 O'er which the Teleboae once did reign. 
 
 But not with fields paternal son content : 
 
 E'en then he subject held, in wide extent, 
 
 Sarrastian peoples; and who fertile plains 
 
 Inhabit which thy river, Sarnus, drains ; 
 
 And those whom Rufae's cit^ fehelter yields 
 
 And Batulum and high Celenna's fields : 
 
 And whom nut-famed Abella's walls o'erlook. 
 
 To hurl catejas they from Teutons took : 
 
 To them as headgear cork-tree bark affords ; 
 
 And peltce, brazen shields, gleam : gleam brazen swords. 
 
 And thee to battle hilly Nursae sent, 
 Ufens, by fame of brave deeds eminent ; 
 Chief force the Equi thine, a rugged race 
 That scant soil tend and follow much the chase : 
 Armed they till the ground ; and them recent prey 
 To snatch delights, to live by plunder aye. 
 
 Besides there came a priest from Marsian race, 
 Branch of tame olive did his helmet grace. 
 By king Archippus forth to battle sent — 
 
^NEID, B. VII. 
 
 Umbro, most brave; of whom the story went 
 That ho o'er vipers, hissing hydras, deep 
 Was wont by song and hand to scatter sleep, 
 And soothe their ire and bite assuage by art. --" 
 But cure he could not blow of Trojan dart; 
 Nor did sleep-bearing songs avail him aught 
 ^&ainst wouH'^-; nor herbs on Marsian mountains sought. 
 Thee mouPu j AagitiaB's grove ; with crystal flow 
 Thee Fucinus did mourn ; lakes rippling woe. 
 Most famed in war, there too Virbius went, 
 Son of Hippolytus ; whom mother sent, 
 Aricia ; who him had noble reared 
 \Amid groves of Egeria revered, 
 l^round moist shores where stands Diana's fane— 
 iftioh, and not by suppliant sued in vain. 
 For Hippolytus— 'tis so borne by fame- 
 After that he by fraud fell of stepdame, 
 And father's vengeance glutted with his gore, 
 By frightened steeds distraught— had come once more 
 To starry vault and breathed the> air oKatt^ 
 By Paeon's herbs recalled Diana's love- 
 Then sire almighty, galled that mortal wight 
 
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 iBNBiD, B. VII. 
 
 From shades should rise infernal to life's light- 
 By bolt, the source of medicine so brave, 
 Phoebigena hurled to. Stygian wave ; 
 But* Trivia Hippolytus— goddess kind— 
 To nymph Egeria and grove consigned 
 And hid in secret seats ; where he, alone. 
 In woods Italian, to fame unknown, 
 Might his remaining days complete ; and where 
 He the feigned name of Virbius might bear. 
 Whence, too, from Trivia's fene and sacred wood 
 They horn-hoofed horses at this day exclude ; 
 Because they, by sea monsters scared, on shore 
 Both chariot and youth to ruin bore; 
 Son ne'ertheless wns fiery horses plying 
 And to war o'er plain in chariot flying. 
 
 Himself of rare size Turnus chiefs among 
 Flits beaxing arms, whole head above the throng. 
 Hip helm three^jrested shows Chimsera* dire 
 Spouting from jaws aloft JEtnaean fire : 
 More furious seeming ; wilder the dread light; 
 **•.- Txj-u TTitii Miuuusuuu uurour grows lue ught. 
 But polished shield lo, in gold, adorns ; 
 
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-SNEID, B. VII. 
 
 Sr-'";^'?^ hair, now heifer with raised horns 
 
 [Prodigious device]; and Argus there, 
 
 With hundred eyes, virgin to guard his care : 
 
 And Inachus, her river-sire, does seem 
 
 Pouring from urn embossed a glittering stream. 
 
 Infantry follows, like storm-cloud of rain 
 
 And bands shield-bearing thicken o'er the plain • 
 
 Argives, Auruncae, and Rutulian force ; 
 
 And old Sicani, whence Sicilians' source • 
 
 And armM ranks Sacranian nation yields'- 
 
 And Lubicani with their painted shields •' 
 
 And, who thy woods, Tiber, cultivate ' 
 
 And Numicus' banks, stream consecrate • 
 
 And who hills Rutulian ply with share 
 
 And Circaean ridge and the fields where 
 
 Jupiter Anxfirus* does hold high sway, 
 
 Feronia, too, lover of greenwood gay • ' 
 
 Where Satura's dark marsh lies, and'to sea 
 
 told Ufens through deep vales flows sluggishly. 
 
 Besides, theie came Camilla— to the w«v 
 Leading a troop of horse, and gleaming far 
 lollow brass-clad battalions apace— 
 
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 MJHEIV, B. VII. 
 
 The woman-warrior of the Volscian race. 
 
 Not she, a virgin with hands delicate, 
 
 To* Pallas' distaflf used, or osier-grate; 
 
 Bat battles rough to endure, and to outstrip 
 
 The winds in swiftness as o'er sward she'd trip. 
 
 She would o'er standing corn her light way steer 
 
 Nor injure in her course one tender ear : 
 
 Or through mid s'^a o'er swellipg wave would fleet 
 
 Nor with the surface tinge her winged feet. 
 
 From houses and from fields the youth poured out 
 
 Wonder, and of the mothers the whole rout. 
 
 And eye her going — in astonishment 
 
 Gaping to note that, royal ornament, 
 
 The parple should her shining shoulders deck ; 
 
 That clasp of gold should looks from straying check ; 
 
 That she with Lycian quiver is equipt 
 
 And crook of myrtle with sharp iron tipt. 
 
 END OF B. VII. 
 
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CONTENTS.-BOOK Vfll. 
 
 reoeoaon VnH t ° f I °" ''°""- ^« ■"««" '"•' « hospitable 
 
 aercuzes, which Eraadw was celebrating on his arrival Next 
 
 ^rXIn'' """""""^^ "'* «Lecoirdrd-tou^U 
 »"'''»« WU^, T^''"^-' P^ceeding to demand back 
 
 ^^'^::t2^rZ2Zlt!:'^'"^ the.r ^ngeanc, to 
 With ftrm» ^u- u -A-neas. Meanwhile Venus arrives 
 
 Ccarr.: riirr "hrrr r r ""^''' "^^ 
 
 tion of the shield ''°'' "''°'°*'' '"" » ''""'P- 
 
IJ 
 
VIRGIUS ^NEID, B VUI. 
 
 When first war's ensign Tumus gave to float 
 
 er Laurentum's citadel, and hoarse note 
 
 Of trumpets sounded ; when to car he yoked 
 
 H^ mettled steeds J and when he to arms provoked- 
 
 AIl minds were straight disturbed; Latium entire 
 
 At once, as in sudden tumult, did conspire, 
 
 And rage the young men fierce. Of leaders first 
 
 Messapus, Ufens, and, of Gods accurset^ 
 
 Mezentius, levies press from every side, 
 
 And to the tillers waste lay the fields wide 
 
 To city of great *Diomed, to sue 
 
 For aid, e'en Venulus is sent ; and who 
 
 That Trojans have in Latium fixed theii seat ; - 
 
 Jaueas hither h^pn <>nnTra^/^4 -..'^l j% . 
 
 Ihat he the conquered household-gods does bring 
 And says .that he by Fates is destined kinc- 
 
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 Should promulgate : Ihat much people are allying 
 Themselves to the Dardanian ; his name flying 
 Widely in Latium : what he can claim 
 By these beginnings ; at what issue aim, 
 War fortunate, may more to himself appear 
 Than to Turnus king or king Latinus clear. 
 
 Such thipgs pass in Latium : and when all these 
 The Laomedontian hero* seesj 
 On a great tide of cares he undulates, 
 And his quick thoughts now here, now there dilates 
 And hurries rapidly to various parts. 
 And over all things cursorily darts : 
 As from brass water-cups when dancing light — 
 Reflected sun or image of moon bright — 
 Wide flits through every place ; now high in air 
 The upper fret-work strikes of roof with glare. 
 
 'Twas night: and through all lands deep sleep each kind 
 Of birds and beasts—tired animals did bind, 
 When father JBnSas on the bank did lie 
 Beneath the concave of the gelid sky — 
 
 Bv thft aati war /{ia^nrhiiA in \\la Kwooaf^^. 
 
 And to his members granted tardy rest. 
 
-fiNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 God of the place himself to him did seem- 
 
 Old Tyberinus, of delightful stream- 
 
 Amid the poplar branches to arise • 
 
 Thin cambric veiled him in it a.ure g.ise 
 
 A shady reed the covering of i, > imir- ' 
 
 Then spoke ; aud with these wove 3 relieves his care • 
 
 sprung from race of Gods, who dost convey 
 
 Troy's city back to us from foes ; for aye 
 
 Preservest *Pergamus : looked-for by 
 
 Laurentian soil, fields that through Latium lie— 
 
 Nn?fr!i,^T. '^'"""'r' household-gods: flinch not, 
 Nor fear thou threats of war ; all is forgot 
 
 The grudge and ire of Gods. And lest things vain 
 Thou shouldst suppose that sleep U> thee does feign, 
 Ere long on bank found 'neath the holm-oak's bough- 
 Farrowed of thirty heads a brood-hug. sow 
 Tore thee shall lie supine upon the ground, 
 White Itself, and young white its dugs around. 
 This city s site shall be, of toils sure goal • 
 Whence removed, a city-as time does roll 
 And thnce ten years fulfil their circling round- 
 Ascanius-Alba, of famed name-shall found 
 
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 uENBID, B. VIII. 
 
 Not doubtful things I sing. Now, in what way 
 
 From the most presssing danger of to-day 
 
 Thou mayst thyself victorious extricate — 
 
 In few words, attend, I will explicate : 
 
 Arcadians — race from ancient Pallas sprung, 
 
 And who to king Evander's banner clung — 
 
 Have on these banks a settlement selected. 
 
 And on hills a city have erect^^l) 
 
 Pallant^um called, from sire Pallas' name. 
 
 They ever war with Latin race inflame. ' 
 
 Them camp-associates call, in league combine. 
 
 I myself by banks, by my river's line — 
 
 Thee, carried upwards straight, so will I guide 
 
 That surmount thou mayst with oars the adverse tide. 
 
 Arise: bestir thee. thou goddess-born. 
 
 And, as the stars retreat in early morn. 
 
 To Juno duly let thy prayers aspire ; 
 
 With suppliant vows surmount her threats, her ire j 
 
 Victorious, thou wilt honour pay to me. 
 
 He am I, whom thou with full stream dost see 
 
 Skirting the banks, the fertile fields dividing — 
 
 Cerulean Tiber, most loved of heaven gliding : 
 
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-ffiNEID, B. VIII. 
 Here large home mine ; 'mong cities high my head 
 
 Both • .^ 'f r'"^ ''^*^ ""» 4ish'd 
 Both rught and sleep iEngas did forsake 
 
 He rose .• and, seen ethereal light to break," 
 He water piously from stream <'id bear 
 In hollow palms ; these words pours forth to air • 
 Nymphs. Laurentian nymphs, who rivers t^: ' 
 And thou sire Tiber, with thy sacred st.^^ 
 Do ye receive ^ngas, and at length 
 Protect from dangers with your guardian strength 
 In whatsoever fount pool harbours thee. ^ 
 
 Commiserating our calamity ■ 
 From soil whate'er most beauteous wells, thy sprin» 
 Thee honour aye will I, to theo gifts b.ing, ^ "' 
 Of Hespenah waters horned, sovereign stream • 
 present only be, confirm thou drcaL ' 
 
 This sa.d : two galleys he selects from fleet. 
 And fite with oars; companions arms comp lete 
 But sudden miracle and wondrous! io,^ 
 
 TiTL- , ": "" ""■'" '" ^'"^ ^" 's^en a sow f 
 W hich pious .Eneas to thee did eow, / 
 
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 JBNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 I 
 
 To thee, mighty Juno, yictim slay 
 And did with litter by thy altars lay. 
 Tiber, the night long swelling, smoothed had tide, 
 And, flowing back, with still wave did abide, 
 That, after guise of pool or quiet lake. 
 He might his water's surface level make. 
 And from oars that he all struggling mi^t take. 
 With omens fair begun the^ speed their way. 
 Glides the smeared fir o'er«haIlows once that Hkyy 
 And the waves wonder; bonders the unused grovtu 
 To see on river buoyantly to rove ^ ^^ 
 
 Far gleaming shields of mm and painted kSil. 
 With rowing, through both day and night they ste^ ; 
 And ' mg bends compass 'neath trees' varied screen^ 
 And on smooth waters pierce the forest green. 
 The flaming sun mid v%ult had climbed of sky, ■'^ 
 When walls afar and citadel they spy, j. 
 
 And scattered roofs : what now^Bome's might has sipuled 
 To heaven, then Evander things poor held. 
 Prows quicker they advance, draw city nigh. 
 The Arcadian king, by chance, solemnity 
 Was celebrating on that daj^once more 
 
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XISSID, B. VIII. 
 
 To AmpUtryoa's great son* and Gods, before 
 Ibe oity IB a grove. Son Pallas there : 
 There chief youths all ; and senate poor-the air 
 Were ehafing with frankincense : and before "' 
 Altars was rising smoke of tepid gore 
 When high ships they see ; and them to bear nigh 
 Mong shady woods and silent oars to ply 
 Fear^tricken were they with the sadden Jight, 
 And rm all, tables quitting in their fright! 
 Whom Pallas bold forbids rites interrupt, 
 And, seizmg spear, flies off himself abrupt : 
 And from rise afar: To tempt unknown wiys 
 
 Jo V r"^. r'^' '"P'"*'' ' ^'^*«'. te says. 
 Go ye? Who? Of what racer Your dwkng where ? 
 Whether peace do ye or arms hither bear ? 
 Father ^neas on high poop did stand. 
 And thus speaks-olive, badge of peace, in hand: 
 irojans thou seest-weapons 'gainst Latins aimed- 
 Whom exdes, they by proud war have disclaimed. 
 We seek Evander. Tfc!. ,™,.. . — j . 
 
 Dardania's chiefs elect have come this way 
 And that associate arms they humbly claim. 
 
 
 
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 -aiNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Amazed was Pallas at so great a name. 
 Descend^ he says, whosoe'er thou art, 
 And to my sire thy views thyself impart ; 
 
 Guest welcome be 'neat? our ^Penatds' wings 
 
 With hand receives and to grasped right hand clings. 
 
 Proceeding, they grove enter, stream forsake, 
 ^neas then to king in bland words spake : 
 best of Greeks, whom fortune willed me pray 
 And branch in hand outstretch with fillet gay, 
 Feared not I, indeed, in that thou the guide 
 Of Greeks wert — an Arcadian beside ; 
 And to the two Atrid^s* that by source 
 Thou wert allied. But me, my life's fair course, 
 The holy oracles of gods, fathers cognate, 
 
 Thy fame with peopled earth commensurate 
 
 With thee allied and willing urged on fate. 
 Comes Dardanus to Teucer's realms, of old, 
 
 Bom of Electra as the Greeks do hold 
 
 Father and founder of Ilium* he. 
 Electra through great Atlas* light did see, 
 Who on his shoulders the high stars does bear. 
 Mercury* your father is, whom the fair 
 
^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Maia conceived and ushered into dav 
 On cold Client's top. Bat, if we may 
 Credit what heard, Atlas w. 3 Maia's sfre- 
 Same Atlas that upholds heaven's orbs of fire ' 
 Tto race of both diverges from one source. 
 Trusting these things, I have not had recourse 
 As wont, to embassies ; nor artfully ' 
 
 Have used the first experiments of thee : 
 Mj^If I have exposed and my^own head ; 
 And have a suppliant to thy threshold sped. 
 With cruel war us persecutes, as thee. 
 The selfsame Dannian* nation : if to flee 
 
 SttL^'t' ^r- """^'"S **"? *'"'^ ^oM stay 
 But thoroughly beneath their yoke they may 
 
 All Hespena send, and sea possess 
 
 Which washes it above-beneath no less. 
 
 Fajth accept and give: breasts we have by wars 
 
 ^noas spoke 5-« mouth the while surveys 
 
 Then thus responds : How, bravest Tiojan I 
 Accept and recognise thee willingly ! 
 
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 iENEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Thy father's words how I do re.?oilect I 
 
 The voice of great Anohises, the aspect ! 
 
 For Priam, I remember, on his ^vav — 
 
 Sou of Laomedon — respects to pay 
 
 At Salamis, his sister Hesion's* court, 
 
 To Are.'id 's oold clime did once resort. 
 
 First youtk with down was mantling the?* niy face. 
 
 The Trojan leaders I admired ; the grace 
 
 Of Laomedontiad^s i'dmired : 
 
 But higher went than all Anchises. Fired 
 
 With youthful ardour, ovas my mind's delight 
 
 To accost the man, and right hand join with right. 
 
 I him approached; and, my wMi, by his side 
 
 Under the walls of Pheneus* him did guide. 
 
 He quiver rare at parting did bestow, 
 
 And Lycian arrows; aad cloak that did show 
 
 Gold interwoven ; and two bits, beside. 
 
 Which, also gold, are now my Pallas' pride. 
 
 Thy suit, then, right hand has been giver in pawn ; 
 
 And, ?ocn as morrow's l^ht on earth shall dawn. 
 
 You cheered with aid I'll speed, with means supply. 
 
 Meanwhile, since ye have come in amity, 
 
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^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 These yearly sacred rites, which to defer 
 Would sacrilegious be^this grace confer- 
 Along with us do ye now celebrate, 
 And to your allies' board habituate. 
 
 This having said j he bids to be replaced 
 The withdrawn meats and cups : and himself placed 
 The men straightway upon the grassy seat, 
 -^neas specially he does entreat— 
 Him to throne receives, of maple made, 
 And couch, of shaggy lion's hide o'er laid 
 Then, chosen youths and priest of altar brin- 
 Roasted steer's flesh, each other rivalling "^ 
 And baskets load with bread, and serve the wine 
 -^neas and at once Troy's youths now dine 
 On back and lustral pluck of ox entire. 
 
 Their hunger stayed, repressed of food desire, 
 King Evander says : This solemnity • 
 These wonted feasts ; of so great deity 
 This altar— not a superstition vain, 
 
 1^ .^,a ^vas uuudiess, aid ordain. 
 Saved from fell dangers, Trojan guest, we do 
 Deserved honours, and still them renew. 
 
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 iENEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Behold that ledge projecting from rock's side ; 
 How fragments huge are scattered far and wide ; 
 And stands the mountain-home deserted. — Then 
 What ruin the high clifiF dragged in its train ! — 
 Here was a cave, withdrawn in vast recess, 
 Which half-man Cacus' dire form did possess ; 
 To sun's rays inaccessible. The ground aye 
 Was warm with recent slaughter, and alway, 
 Attached to posts of formidable door. 
 Men's visages hung pale with rueful gore. 
 This monster's sire was Vulcan ;* his dark flame 
 Belching from mouth he'd wander, of huge frame. 
 At length, to us desiring it time brought 
 Aid, with the advent of a God : for, unsought, 
 Alcid^s* present was, avenger great. 
 With three-formed *Geryon's death and spoils elate, 
 And large herd, victor, driving was hard by ; 
 Both vale and stream the cattle occupy. 
 But the fierce mind of robber Cacus flared ; 
 And, that no crime or fraud might be undared 
 
 \ji uu^ricu, u5 iOUr SiCCrS Oi ^iuSSiug SizO, 
 
 Four heifers of excelling form likewise 
 
^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Du-erts from range : and, that no prints mi^ht be 
 Of feet direct, them by tail purposely 
 
 Way s tracks reversed-in dark rock he buried " 
 Towards the cave no signs one searching led 
 
 Alcides moyed-preparing was to go- 
 i tc oxen on departure 'gan to low 
 
 tt Vlf" ^^fr'^ "'"'"" *« ^'o^o entire. 
 And hills with clamour as hence they retire 
 
 Answered a heifer-'neath the vast cave lowed 
 
 On this, Alcidfe- rage to fury broke: 
 With hand he seizes arms-large knotted oak- 
 And course to heights of lofty mount does iL 
 Then our men first beheld Cacus to fear- 
 ing f "'"'■ ?"•' "'■"^^ ""'« fl«" he hied 
 P„i !? ^^ T' *=" ""8^ '» f^^' supplied. 
 Enclosed: and when, chains burst, he had let Ml 
 
 Huge rock— .wi-fh 1*-^ j-. . «^ iet wn 
 
 ^ .^ ^ •"'^^ "^•" «"u arc paternal 
 
 Eaised-and door, bar-stayed thus, had made more strong 
 lo I raging fierce Tirjmthius* comes along : =' 
 
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 -ENEID, B. Vni. 
 
 
 w 
 
 And every access setting to explore, 
 
 Now this way and now that his visago hore, 
 
 Grinding his teeth : thrice eager drivt *; with ire 
 
 The mount Aventine compasses entire ; 
 
 Thrice tries the stony port withoui .vail j 
 
 Thrice sat him down exhausted in the dale. 
 
 There stood a flinty rock — its sides seemed hewed — 
 
 Bising from cave's back ; very high when viewed ; 
 
 For dire birds' nests a home convenient : 
 
 This, as prone to stream on^left it leant, ' 
 
 He, on right struggling, shook and loosed what held 
 
 From lowest roots — then suddenly impelled. 
 
 By which impulse highest heaven echoes ; 
 
 The banks disrupt ; and stream scared backward flows. 
 
 But, den unroofed, huge hall of Cacus lay 
 
 And gloomy cavern quite exposed to day. 
 
 Just as if earth wide gaping from some shock 
 
 The infernal seats should ope — palt; realms Uulock 
 
 Ne'er seen by Gods, and from on high were spied 
 
 Dread gulf; admitted light, shades terrified. 
 
 Him then sumrised in da\r nn]nr\har\ for T^nni<in.r • 
 
 Enclosed in hollow cave, and strangely : oaring — 
 
 I 
 
MmiDf B. VIII. 
 
 Alcid^s from above with darts o'erpowers • 
 Ail arms employs-both stocks and huge s'tones showers. 
 But he-for no flight now from danger lay- 
 Forth jaws thick smoke vomits^-strange to sav~" 
 And his cave-home in darkness dense implies 
 Wresting the prospect suddenly from eyes • ' 
 And 'neath the cave conglomerates night dire 
 Smoke-bearing-mixed the darkness is with fiW 
 Alcd^s this m anger did not brook • 
 Anu .rougii the fire a headlong leap he took, 
 Where ost the smoke compelling was the wive 
 And ^^a dar' cloud was'eddying vast cave. 
 Here, Cacus dting in murk fires vain 
 He seizes. In knot-faahion clasping : then 
 His started eyes and his blood-thirsty throat 
 Fast straining, strangles him upon the spot. 
 Dark house is opened straight, door torn away : 
 iioth stolen cattle and secreted prey 
 To heaven are shown and, dragged forth by the feet 
 Misshapen carcase : ne'er is desire rn.i.t. ' 
 
 Oazmg on awful eyes, face, shaggy brkst^ 
 Of semibrute and fires in jaws repressed 
 
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 ^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Henco did spring the honour that we pay ; 
 And grateful juniors have observed the Jay. 
 Potitius, author; and Pinarii, 
 Of the Herculean solemnity 
 Guardians— did in prove this altar rear : 
 Which aye shall be by us called greatest, e'er 
 Greatest shall be. Come then in quittance now 
 Of so great praises, bind, youths, your brow 
 With leafy branch ; and stretch forth in right hand 
 The cup; and the common god invoke; and, 
 Wine bestow—since willing. No sooner said, 
 Than two-dyed poplar with Herculean shade ' 
 Their brows did veil ; and hung with leaves the band ;. 
 And of each filled the sacred cup right hand. 
 Upon the table joyful all straightway 
 .Libations pour, and to the high Gods pray. 
 
 Nearer, meanwhile, eve draws with heaven's descents 
 And now the priests, and first Potitius, went 
 With skins as wont begirt and torches bearing. 
 Feasts they renew; and, for the joyance caring. 
 
 Gifts to the second table grateful bring 
 
 The board with loaded platters cumbering. 
 
^NEID, B. Vm. 
 
 The Salii* for songs, lit altars round, 
 
 Are here ; their brows with branch of poplar bound. 
 
 Ihis, choir of youths ; that, of old men ; in verse 
 
 Who praise and feats of Hercultis rehearse : 
 
 How he first monsters of stepmother* seized 
 
 And strangled; with hand both snakes having squeezed 
 
 How cities famed he did in war o'erthrow— 
 
 Troy and (Echalia*; how undergo, 
 
 'Neath king Eurystheus,* by felfjuno's will 
 
 A thousand labours hard. Thou, invincible/ 
 
 Didst the cloud-born, the double-bodied slay— 
 
 Pholus and Hylaeus--* by thy hand's sway ; 
 
 Thou Cressian monsters; and, in last refuge, 
 
 Under Nemaoan rock the lion huge. 
 
 Thee dreaded Styx ; thee Orcus' watchdog grave 
 
 On half gnawed bones reclined in bloody cave. 
 
 Nor any shapes thee daunted ; not even he— 
 
 Typhoeus* vaat, arms wielding lustily : 
 
 Nor thee abandoned by reason yet 
 
 With crowd of heads Lernsean snake beset. 
 
 Hail ! Jove's true scion, to Gods r.ided grace. 
 
 Us visit favouring and thy rites apace. 
 
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 -aiNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Such things in verse they sing: highest acclaim, 
 Add Cacus' cave ; himself too breathing flame. 
 Whole grove repeats the sound and hills reply. 
 Then, the rites finished, all to city hie. 
 The king age-stricken went, and companions near 
 JEneas held and son, as he did steer 
 And the way with various talk did cheer. 
 Admires -^neas r'and his quick eyes flit 
 O'er all things round ; and, with the places smit. 
 Cheerful he singly both inquires and hears' 
 'Bout monuments of men of by-gone years. 
 Then, founder of the Roman citadel, 
 King Evander says : These woods, they tell. 
 Fawns and lymphs indigenous did hold, 
 And race of men in oak-trunks born, of old. 
 Nor manners nor refinement yet was theirs ; 
 Nor knew they oxen how to join to shares ; 
 Or wealth to gather or to spare when gained : 
 But boughs them and rough chace in food maintained. 
 First Saturn* came from the Olympian heaven, 
 Fleeing Jove's arms; a dethroned exile driven. 
 He race intractable and scattered o'er 
 
 
-SNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 High hills composed and gave them laws : and more, 
 
 The place with name of Latium wished invested, 
 
 Since safe on these shores he had latent rested. ' 
 
 The age called golden 'neath that king obtained ; 
 
 So peacefully he o'er the people reigned. 
 
 Till by degrees a worse, a faded age 
 
 Ensued : war's madness, and of gain the rage. 
 
 Then came the Ausonians, and Sicanian band— 
 
 And oft its name changed the Saturnian land • 
 
 Then kings; and Tybris fierce, of monstrous strength- 
 
 Whence did we, the Italians, at length 
 
 The title Tiber for the river claim :° 
 
 But lost the ancient Albula true name. 
 
 Me, driven from country to seas ultimate. 
 
 All-powerful fortune and resistless fate 
 
 In these parts placed: dread warnings forced to follow 
 
 Of mother [nymph Carmenta] and Apollo. 
 
 This scarce said : proceeding on he shows 
 The altar and Carmental gate— so flows 
 The Roman name— which to have been is said 
 Old honour to the nvmoh Cnrmpnfn r^oi^ . 
 Fate-telling seer, to be who first proclaimed 
 
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 iENEID, B. Vril. 
 
 Great the Mneidsd, Pallant^um famed. 
 Then the wide wood which Romulus applied 
 To asylum's use'J^; and, by the cold rock's side 
 He the Lupercal* shows— from Parrhasian 
 Observance named of the Lycsean Pan : 
 Shows sacred grove of Argiletum too, 
 And place to witness calls that story true 
 Of his guest Argus'* death he does recount. 
 Next he conducts to the Tarpeian Moui? *— 
 The splendid Capitoline of to-day ; 
 Horrid of old 'mid thickets wild it' lay. 
 Even then dread reverence of the place would shock 
 Ihe simple rustics; even then scare wood and rock 
 This grove, he says, this hill whose green top nods ' 
 A God haunts— doubtful which one 'tis of Gods • 
 The Arcadians believe they oft have seen 
 Even Jupiter* himself, when as they ween 
 He shaking was in right hand wffis^^ dark 
 And summoning the clouds.— Thou dost remark 
 These two towns with their walls in ruins cast- 
 Relics and monuments of races past: 
 This one, sire Janus; that, Saturnus claims ; 
 Janiculum and Saturnia their names. 
 
-SINEID, B. VIII. 
 
 With such talk they the abode were drawing „i.h 
 Of poor Evander ; and, unwitting, spy 
 Herds freely wandering and lowing loud 
 ■On Roman forum and Carina proud * 
 Arrived, he says : This door Aloidiis deigned " 
 Victor to enter ; him this hall contained! 
 Dare thou guest, the pride of wealth despise 
 And worthy of the God thee prove likewise; 
 And with thinp destitute not angry, come. 
 He said: and 'neath roof of his humble home 
 The great ^„eas led, and placed on layer 
 Upborne with leaves and skin of Libyan bear 
 
 Night drops and clips round earth with du^fcy win-s 
 But Venus-nor fear vain the mother wrings- ' 
 
 Moved by laurentian threats and tunmlt dread. 
 Addresses Vulcan* : as on bridal bed 
 The golden conch of spouse she did recline 
 
 vv ien the Greek kings were sacking Trov the doome,! 
 r i!T! i' ^" ">• -i'lfi- co^nsum^ed,"^ 
 
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 Not for the wretp.hpH asl-^A 
 
 Not arms by thy art, thy puissance made 
 
 any aid -J 
 
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 JSNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Nor wished I, dearest husband, thee to annoy 
 
 Or all in vain thy labours to employ ; 
 
 Tho' both to Priam's sons I much was owing 
 
 And oft had tears been for iEneas flowino-. 
 
 Now by Jove's will he treads Rutulian shore ; 
 
 Therefore I suppliant come, urged as before, ' 
 
 And of thy honoured godship arms implore ; 
 
 Parent for child. Thee with tears could rouse 
 
 Nereus' daughter;* thee, Tithonian spouse.* 
 
 See what peoples fierce, what towns 'gainst me and mine 
 
 With closed ports iron whet, for war combine. 
 
 She spoke : and, twining arms of snowy grace, 
 Him halting cherishes with soft embrace. 
 He caught the wonted flame : the known warmth flew 
 Into his marrow ; his lax bones ran through 
 Just as at times, when burst by thunder bright 
 Fiery rift flashing runs through cloud with light. 
 Perceived the wife, of art proud, charms aware. 
 Then speaks the sire, caught by love's constant snare • 
 Why causes seek from deep ? Where, goddess, flown * 
 Thy trust of me ? If I like care had known, 
 Then too with arms Trov's sons T miVht k^^I ^i.^ . 
 
^NEID, B. vm. 
 
 Tlr'^/^i^i'y Troy nor Fates fo.b.do 
 To Stand and Priam live for ten more year. 
 But .f on .„ tH„„.,j ^ ^^^ ^,^\l^l^^ 
 
 What .n my art I promise can of care ;' ' ^ 
 
 What can by steel be done, electre rare- 
 As much as fire ana blasts can bring abiut- 
 
 Anao..f;r:i:sr::ror^^ 
 
 The gathered ashes and quashed fire eX 
 Night to work addine ■ and h., m • ' 
 PKm »*!,>„ * ."^'"""''^''Ba'fis with lights 
 l-hes at ong task, that bed of husband dear 
 
 She chaste may keep and little ones may '", • 
 
 And ^i^f'/il^^f" !''»-'>"<' by 
 With smohng rocks; .ad noave thereunder. 
 
 79 
 
80 
 
 ^NEID, B, VIII. 
 
 Hollowed by Cyclops'* fires,, aye does thunder— 
 -Sltnajan caverns : and the sturdy knocks 
 On anvils heard the belch repeats with shocks; 
 And in trough hisses the Chalybean ore ; 
 And furnaces within the fires do roar. 
 'Tis Vulcan's workshop j name to land extends. 
 Thither from heaven the Ignipotent descends. 
 
 Cyclops in vast cave iron-work pursued— 
 Brontes, Sterop6s, and Pyracmon nude. 
 By these hands formed, already dressed in part, 
 A thunderbolt— such does the father dart 
 In number very many from whole sky 
 Bownward to earth— unfinished part did lie. 
 Three rays of crisped shower were there complete; 
 Three of moist cloud ; three i.eJ fire and wind fleet 
 Terrific flashes, now, and sound and dread 
 They in work mingling were, and wrath flamed. 
 There, swift-wheeled car for Mars they expedite, 
 With which he men, he cities does excite ; 
 And op^is* dire, by Pallas angry borne, 
 Eager with serpents' scales in gold adorn : 
 
 ^*»B«X« VTTXU" 
 
 ^ 7 
 
 tCv* snakes ; and goddess' breast f o deck 
 
^KEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Gorgon herself, eyes rolling, severed neck. 
 Kemove aU, says he, works begun defer, 
 ^tnjean Cyclops, hither care transfer • 
 Arms for a valiant man are to be made: 
 
 nI n2.Tr "'"? '''^' "' '"'"<'' <J«ft »t trade • 
 Now need there as of every masteratroke : 
 Qmcken your lingerings. No more he spoke • 
 But instant all their minds intent applied ' 
 And carefully the labour they divide ' 
 
 Br« flows and golden ore in rivers fast ' 
 And melts the deadly steel in furnace :;. 
 
 The Latm darts, orbs seven orbs withal • 
 They m,„gle. gome in swelling bellows catch 
 The breezes, and deliver with despatch • 
 
 With the th,ck.planted anvils groans the cave 
 
 While thP^T- V ^'PP^S tongs the mass. 
 T^: T I'lll^*"".'"*^. ••y *« fa' ^olian coast 
 
 On lowly couch bland light Evander wake., 
 
 81 
 
82 
 
 ^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 And morning song of birds from eaves that breaks. 
 
 The old man rises ; tunic girds around, 
 
 And sandals dons, by chains Ty|*rhenian bound j 
 
 Tegsean sword to shoulders fits and side, 
 
 Gathering from left let down a panther's hide. 
 
 Two watchdogs sally forth from portal high 
 
 And pleased their master's steps accompany. 
 
 For guest Eneas' private lodge he made, 
 
 Of words the hero mindful — promised aid. 
 
 -^neas not less early steps was bending ; 
 
 Son Pallas that, Achates this attending. 
 
 Met, they join right hands ; and, in middle sitting 
 
 Of buildings, speech indulge time now permitting. 
 
 The king first these : 
 
 Great Trojan leader,— who spared, ne'er will I 
 
 Grant that Troy's state or sway does vanquished lie — 
 
 For aid of war, to match a name so great. 
 
 Means have we scanty and inadequate. 
 
 On this side Tuscan river hems us in ; 
 
 On that Kutulian presses and the din 
 
 Of arms is ever keeping up round wall : 
 
 x>ut Witn thee to join peuples I not small — 
 
-«NEID, B. VIII, 
 
 „^'^«y"'"%'="y. built there of old 
 JV».ts rock; where later, it is told 
 
 On Tuaoan hjlls a settlement did found 
 St'nJr';"^'""'"'yy«»-' obtained 
 
 Whv tJ f • ""^ slaughters tell ? 
 
 Na.W.^deadhe'dilr.^r''-' 
 -DOth hands and moufli« ;« ^ *? ' 
 
 What torture flrdtl """ "'"^ bestowing- 
 B. tired eiti.erat'^^E^rT^ 
 
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 84 
 
 JENEID, B. VIII. 
 
 In fury just uprose the Etrurian land : 
 With war for vengeance they king now demand. 
 These thousands thee, ^neas, 1*11 set o'er; 
 For clamorous are the ships that throng the shore. 
 And urgent to be led. Them does retain 
 An ag^d seer, fates singing in this strain : 
 choice youth, of Maeonia the flower 
 And of the ancient men the embodied power, 
 Whom indignation just bears 'gainst the foe, 
 And with earned wrath Mezentius makes glow- 
 To no Italian may ye, warned, subject 
 So great a nation ; foreign chiefs expect. 
 Then halted on this plain the Etrurian line 
 By dread withheld of oracle divine. 
 Tarchon himself to me did heralds send 
 With crown and sceptre, and to me commend 
 The insignia, to camp that I should speed 
 And of Tyrrhenian realm accept the meed. 
 But dull with chilling years, effete old age 
 Me grudges rule — powers late brave deeds to engage. 
 Son I would urge : but, being of mixed race 
 By Sabellian mother, thence he may trace 
 
^N£ID, B. VIII. 
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 t'f Trojans and Italians R.«;^ • , 
 
 Thy feats ot';;:!:::^ '"^,"'"'-' ^^y ; 
 
 Arcadian .„i„4 i,;;jf. -;"<>-d speara, 
 P^^las to thee-o/yoXroe «"7 
 
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86 
 
 iENEID, B. Vni. 
 
 Through the calm air to gleam— hear beatea sound. 
 The rest were stunned : but Troy's great hero knew 
 The noise and goddess-mother's promise due ; 
 Then speaks : Nay do not host, do not I pray 
 With vain surmises seek to know what may 
 The issue be which these strange things portend. 
 I am from heaven called. That this sign she'd send, 
 If war shonld threaten, my divine mother said. 
 And through air bring Vulcanic arms for aid. 
 Ah ! poor Laurentians what fates you o'ertake. 
 What retribution, Turnus, thou shalt make. 
 How many shields, helms, bodies of men brave 
 Shalt thou, Tiber, roll beneath thy wave. 
 Let them stern war demand and leagues despise ! 
 This uttered : he from oflF the ground did rise : 
 And the Herculean fires he first excites 
 That smouldering lay on altars from late rites. 
 Joyful to Lar^s, known of yesterday, 
 And small Penates he respects does pay. 
 Two sheep he slays, the wonted sacrifice ; 
 With him Evander, Trojan youth likewise. 
 Thereafter to the ships he bends his way 
 
-fiNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 And friends revisits : of whom ♦!,«». i. 
 
 Menwho.nvaIc«didthere,t„ce|. 
 
 The other pMt on river prono to glide 
 
 And gentry downw«d d™p wi.hlvo„ri„g tide 
 
 To Aseamo, news of tling, and dre to |^^, '^'' 
 
 Horses are given the Trojans who preoare 
 
 Armed to fields T^rhenianprooeer 
 Charger seleet the, for ^„,as lead 
 
 Covered entire with tawny lion's hide- 
 Whioh bright was decked with .^1^7 i ■ 
 
 ?rk*r^'-'"»''«''^'S-!s^t;it™^''^- 
 
 The kn.ghts to seat go of T;^henian «„! *~ 
 The.r vows the mothers doable make ihlt i, <• 
 And terrour spreads as d,nger d" w mo™t^' 
 
 ow„n,dL4i.erX'4t:,ir'''''»"'"^= 
 
 Such were I as 'neath h;4 t>___ . .. 
 When T ihn4i i !•" "'^ "" -ajnesifcs waii— 
 When I the first hne strewed upon the fields 
 
 And, victonous, burned in heapMheshSds; 
 
 8r 
 
88 
 
 iENEID, B. Vin. 
 
 And to Tartarus by this right hand sent 
 King Herilus j to whom had given, nascent, 
 Feronia mother three lives, dread to tell ; 
 Threefold arms he wields; thrice death him must quell. 
 Howe'er this right hand then from him did wrest 
 All lives ; and of like arms did him divest- 
 Ne'er now, dear son, would I be forced to sever 
 ¥rom thy embrace ; nor had Mezentius ever. 
 Scorning this head, caused such fell carnage near, 
 Or city reft of citizens— I here. 
 But, ye Gods !— thoa who o'er Gods bear'st sway, 
 O greatest Jupiter, pity I pray 
 Arcadian king ; to father's suit incline : 
 If your powers Pallas safe—if Fates d" * n ; 
 If to see him I live, join once again- 
 Life I beg, will bear what ye list of pain 
 But if fell hap thou, fortune, do^'t intend, 
 Now, now, may I thread of sad life rend 
 While cares in ambiguity do fly. 
 Whilst dim the prospect of futurity , 
 TV_i.st vhee, my late and only left solace, 
 Belov6d boy, I hold in my embrace : 
 
-KNBID, B. Vlir. 
 I'est news too ffrievmi« m« i 
 
 Of all fl,n fi :,^ ^ ^®°"^ »»ost 
 
 He shows his s^reTL T '" ""'""■'« ^"^^ 
 Oa.a,,ss.„;::^tX:''-^»f-%. 
 
 To dusUloud nn^ h T ' ^'^ ^^^^ *>«»* 
 
 Audg,^ the g™.e with iiMhat dark shade thr.s. 
 
 89 
 
90 
 
 ^NEID B. VIII. 
 
 To God of fields and flocks (Sylvanus) fame 
 Bears that both grove and day did sacred name 
 The old Pelasgi, who, in times gone by. 
 The Latin confines first did occupy. 
 Not far hence Tarchon and Tyrrhenian bands 
 Their camp kept, safe by nature of the lands : 
 From top of hills already could be seen 
 
 The legion all wide-stretching o'et fields green. 
 
 Here did JElneas and choice youths arrive, 
 
 And both their steeds and bodies tired revive. 
 
 But 'mid high cloud Venus, the goddess fair, 
 
 At hand was, presents bearing through the air. 
 
 And when afar in vale retired she spied 
 
 Her son secreted by cold-flowing tide. 
 
 She showed herself, and these words did impart : 
 
 Lo I — finished by my husband's promised art. 
 
 The gifis ! — for battle straight doubt not, son, to crave 
 
 Either Laurentians proud, or Turnus brave. 
 
 Spoke and to son's embrace Cytheriia made : 
 
 The radiant arms 'neath neighbonring oak she laid. 
 
 With goddess* gifts and honour rare elate, 
 He eyes them singly all insatiate, 
 
^NEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Saoh the dark cloud appear, „he„ with s„„-, ra« 
 It glows, a„d far the radi.„c. display, : ^' 
 
 Theu smooth greaves of eleetre and pure gold ■ 
 And sp^r; and work of shield thatL't tt„id 
 There th,ngs I.alia„-Ko»e's triun,ph.^ d.^ -' 
 Tho Ign,po ent had made; of prophets' layT 
 Not .gnorant, „, „fc.t «„,,, , / Jf^ 
 
 There whole raee from Aseanius to spring "' 
 And ,n the,r order the contested wars ^' 
 
 To have lam down , and the twin-bojs* to pL 
 
 ?:reKnr:rer^X:r'd'-' 
 
 To «»the alternate, bodirourwirhtr ' 
 
 ?retittX"^--^«*^^ 
 
 Unwonted deed : and sudden war to sprinf 
 Tw«t Rome and Curis fierce-oij Ta.ius°kin». 
 
 91 
 
92 
 
 -ffiNEID, B. VIII. 
 
 Then the same monarchs, their contention o'er, 
 Were standing armed, altars of Jove before, 
 Cups holding and league striking, porket slain. 
 Not far hence of four horses the teams twain. 
 Diversely driven,* Metius in two had torn — 
 But thou, Alban, thy pledged word didst scorn : 
 The false man's inwards TuUus through the wood 
 "Was dragging ; and dewed brambles dropping blood. 
 Porsenna,* too, was ordering them to accept 
 Tarquinius whom in banishment they kept, 
 And with siege holding city in alarms : 
 For freedom Romans rushing were to arms : 
 Himself indignant-like you might behold, 
 And threatening-like, because that Coclis bold 
 Was daring bridge to rend— chains burst, beside, 
 That Cloelia* was swimming cross the tide. 
 There, guardian of Tarpeian citadel, 
 Manlius* 'fore temple standing was, and well 
 O'er the high capitol was Keeping watch : 
 Palace fresh bristling with Romulean thatch. 
 Here la gold porticoes goose, silver, flying 
 The Gauls are present at the door was crying. 
 
^»EID, B. vm. 
 Tkrongh brakes Uk, o„„i„ .. . 
 0- dartne,,, gift of „i°h V""'"' "^e^ountiV 
 Golden iheklLs^atT"""""' '"""""■g- 
 
 Each m his hand two Aln.'n. °*^"*® • 
 
 He had engraved 'ohl, '"' '^"' ''»"» a»t di„t 
 Through o'y Lathi: r" •"'* '■"'^ '"» 
 I"" off he adds, C h°®T T '" '""'™'« %<>'• 
 Pluto's deep CT fi^ln ?!:'°''"°° "''"o- 
 And fem ^^™ °"f^ P.»»'*a,e„ts of „rin,e,. 
 
 Ca«a„e,* .ndtt:;iS;r- °^'^""-"^' 
 "he jast apart r«fc>* .1. 'earing : 
 
 In gold ; but Ctt "X'r "'■'' ^-^^ -». 
 And bright around doLl^ "'". ° "'''' ""^ foaming j 
 With tails we« swee^'r. 'il^t'I' "™'"S 
 The liquid nlai,. »„/ f.'. '" '"'' ""ey elide. 
 
 luoenLbr^zLh '"^''"'"""Je- 
 
 I'-ofbatTrl^r.tT,?''^ '''"''•.• 
 
 "^uiea, the Actiao fight;* 
 
 93 
 
94 
 
 iENBID, B. VIII. 
 
 And Lcuoatd entire you might behold 
 
 To effervesce and waves to shine with gold. 
 
 Here^ urging the Italians to the war 
 
 Augustus ; and with him united are 
 
 Fathers and people, household-gods and great: 
 
 On high poop Gsesar standing ; temples elate 
 
 Emitting are two flames, and from high head 
 
 The light of the paternal star ia shed. 
 
 In another part, winds and gods his stay. 
 
 Conspicuous Agrippa, the array 
 
 Of squadrons marshalling ; war's proud ensign, 
 
 With naval crown his beaked temples shine. 
 
 There Antony, by barbarian aid 
 
 In various fights victorious, is displayed. 
 
 Conveying with him -^gypt, and the powers 
 
 Of the Orient and of Baotras' distant towers — 
 
 From nations of Aurora and Red Sea: 
 
 Ah shamel Egyptian spouse in company. 
 
 A rush is made : the whole sea with oars torn 
 
 And trident beaks, in foaming waves seems borne. 
 
 You'd think the Cyclad^s* convulsed are dashing 
 
 O'er deep, or mountains high 'gainst mountains clashing- 
 
xmw, B. vin. 
 Such huge ship, ,„,„,„d n„ „ ^ 
 
 W,th dmte ,«, ,>o„ voh,ii|„.. „„d .„%;"""■ 
 Neptune-, field, grow rod wUI, „„„.,„;7„„ 
 
 With native .i,<™OT*; aor as r.t J„ • 
 
 not„„,„a,e.i„^;,,;:;Lr^3"'"".". 
 
 *'°"f".'°<">'-B0d, of every kind 
 And barking Anabis with dart, engage 
 Gams Neptnne, Venus, and Minerva sage 
 Amid the contest Mar, i,„gi„g,h„^«"- 
 Iron-engraved ; and Purfes a.d ft„„ „;, 
 
 All ^^pt every Arab, those from burning 
 Ind, and Sabajans all— their bn.to ^ 
 
 Winds invoked • her elf fbl ""''' ^""''"S. 
 
 Sajl, ._ J -. . nerself the queen was seeminc 
 
 Her wT'' '"^ ^"'^^ ^^°^ ^^^^^^ «treamin.^ 
 Vu e7n Tl ''T^' ^^^^^^"^ ^««*h and pale- 
 ' "'««" had made by waves borne, eastern ga,e : 
 
 D 
 
 95 
 
 ^S 
 
90 
 
 iENEiD, n. viir. 
 
 But, oppoBite, Nile grieving ; of great size, 
 
 And of his garment spreading wide the plies, 
 
 And with whole robe inviting, as 'twould seem, 
 
 The vanquished to dark bosom—lurking stream.— 
 
 But Coosar, 'neath the Roman walls conveyed 
 
 In threefold triumph, the immortal vow he made 
 
 To Italian Gods was consecrating' — shrines 
 
 Three hundred, huge -thronghont broad city's lines. 
 
 With joy the streets, with games, with shouts were ringing; 
 
 In all the temples choir of matrons singing; 
 
 Altars in all, round which were strewed slain steers. 
 
 Sitting, himself in snowy porch appears 
 
 Of shining Phoobus, graciously regarding 
 
 Gifts of nations and to proud doors awarding. 
 
 March the conquered peoples in long row, 
 
 Tongues various as of garb and arms the show. 
 
 Here the Numidian race and, loosely dressed, 
 
 The Africans had M ulciber* expressed : 
 
 Here the Leleg^s and Carians go ; 
 
 Geloni, too, by arrows marked and bow: 
 
 Euphrates, humbler now his waves, dous shine • 
 
 Farthest of men Morini ; forkdd Rhine ; 
 
'«I'EID, n. VIII. 
 And ,, d Arjxe. u, be bridged di,d.,-„i„g 
 
 The fume and fates of his posterity. ^ 
 
 97 
 
 «ND OF BOOK VIII. 
 
11 
 
J^OTES. 
 
 7 Hetperia—liaXy. 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 11 
 
 *tr ^""""-O^^. a great .o™„„, ,»„„.,„ „, 3„, „ ^ 
 JVep/«n«-GodoftheSea. 
 
 ^a/o-One of the Muses. 
 Jlutanian coa»t Italr 
 
 has been called " The Golden Aire '' '■"^" ^''"* 
 
 PAa.&«,-.Apolio_GodorthefineMt*8 An 
 j^^c«„,c;Z„,,»from Vulean, God o irt 
 
 ^^i««.a-Wood and lake of the saJe name 
 
 Phureous smell and medicinal propertC* 
 
 Oinotrum—liaXi^n, f uperues. 
 
 ^cA.ro«-a nver of Hell-taken for Hell itself. 
 
 The iraters had a sul- 
 
100 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 13 
 14 
 
 18 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 Pagb. 
 
 12 lUtus^Son of ^„e«s-..alled alao AscaniuB. 
 
 tluZrZTTt' '^""^ """ ^'''«'' "- -"^^ -- marked. 
 
 rTn •^""/■T*'''^*"'® •*°"' on Mount Ida in Crete. 
 
 ' ' ■'"".t^; V "f k""' "'*" *""■■" ""'"'' !" It«ly and w„B ,„.de . p„„. 
 
 "In o? Ir "; '":" '" "" ""'"""''^ "'"■ '"" •■•-^' " 
 rGod. H .^r^?*„- *f" "««"">• ™ ranked .™„ng„ 
 
 l«.s^n onf,.. ' "'."»""— '"W" open in tin,, of w,r- 
 w«s Enut onljr three times in 700 years 
 
 worT"''' ''"'^'' into au.o«^;„.^^«'wh|,, ia the English of the 
 
 ^oftr~'°" T ''!"''•''' '°'* Electra-repured son of Corylhus kin. 
 
 To^J t /., ' "*"'" "°""*'-^'- H« ™*r"ed »» daughter of 
 Teucer. k.ng of Teucria in Phrygia, and, succeeding to hU kL 
 dom, bu.It the city of Dardania or Troy ^' 
 
 ^ri^^tan /rfa'. c%-Troy, near Mount Ida in Phrygia. 
 
 Z7^Z'a '""*"/ '"" *"^ '""'' ''^' of' Agamemnon, the 
 tofr.hl, r" ^"'"''' '° "'« '^••«i*« «^*r-th« ruler of the 
 
 Btorn, that coursed over the Ida3an (Trojan) plains 
 /rf«an;,/«m— The plains of Troy. ^ P'^'ns. 
 
 Priam— King of Troy. 
 JJ.^aliun arce-from D«,dalus, the most fanjous artist of his age. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 101 
 
 Page. 
 
 23 Jovc'n cruel r.pouse -Juno. 
 
 PAr//y.V,«,-Trojans-Troy being i„ Phrygia. 
 
 %aym7,;«m«-_„pon the plains of SigaMim cln.« * t 
 
 ^ tl.o battles were fought. ' ^" ^'*"^' '""'^^ "'' 
 
 C',anjl„lis~a dftngorous whirpool on tlio coa^t n^^l-i 
 
 -Wi/rs— the God of War. 
 24 />w««~Go{ldes3 of hunting 
 
 the ruin of Troy ° *'""'''* ^^'** '^""'^ P^ove 
 
 /^/«/o_God of the Infernal Regions. 
 
 ^6 Gorffonianpoison-rvom Medusa one of H.n r 
 
 consisted of serpents nn.1 ..i u, . ^Jorgons ; whoso hair 
 carried throng 'rL",'"^' "' '' ''""^ ^^^ "- '--', 
 
 perns and poisons of Afri:." ''''''' '''''''' ''^^^"-^ "^ -- 
 
 27 ^'/*;i/ywtts/4e/>//m/— Paris son of Pr;„„, i 
 
 ofMonehxns. iungof SplJ ' wlL ' " i" T"'''' " " '-''- "^''^'^ 
 exposed at birth on Mo n /l 1 I'^'f ' ^^ ''"^"' "'^'•- ^'^'"^ 
 educated as their own " . "' '^ ''" ^'^'"'•''^''^^ '^"•' 
 
102 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 47 
 
 50 
 
 51 
 
 Page. 
 
 •^"WMs — see note p 17 
 
 ^cllZ"::::::^ ^ -^'^ ^-^ ^ '-P>e of the Muses. 
 
 among the G^daSr death .? ^^^""'l-^^^- He was ranked 
 Mount LS '^°^' *"" '^^ath and received divine honours 
 
 HercuUan ro6e— Herculnq na^/i ♦ u 
 
 Ne„.an,i„„,„:[rb;.,r "^ """" "■ "■• *- »' "■« 
 
 Tr^Thr"""' 'f''"'''"^-f''Wed to hav,, been balr.„a„ half 
 
 J=;a,.r;.r::re::.-rrrsr""^'-' 
 
 a,Mra_A celebrated monster, spouting (!„ 
 
 39 
 41 
 
 42 
 
 4:j 
 
 44 
 
Paqb. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 103 
 
 58 
 
 59 
 63 
 64 
 
 52 Pa//a,-Minerra, the goddess of rci.^ 
 
 ^^ weaving, knitting, &, ''" °^ ^•^*^°'° •• Patroness of spinning, 
 
 which he was. **^®'' '•«• »he son of Laomedon 
 
 ^«'«'"-Household.god3 ' ^•°P»'»tr7on being his stepfathar. 
 
 TAc two jitriiU* A ~_ 
 
 o^vycen./ Jcrr; reifrrr ^^^^-^^ •^^-^ 
 
 war; the latter husband of H*erwl' k''.'"''' '" '"^^ Trojan 
 the cause of that ^ar ' ^^""^ 'abduction by Paris was 
 
 Perseurol rlturnCUm 'conaa«t-°^ f Mauritania in Africa. 
 Pitabljr created, bjr hL, Towed'S S'^ "t^'^^"'' ^'°« '«''«» 
 2«-«pon Which he was changed il ^IT' '**'^«*'' °o^«' P- 
 '« fabled to bear the h«a'eT 1 1? h^^ ^ 
 
 were possessed of the wo„de ru^potL of7 '"'• ''''" «°^«°- 
 whom thejr fixed their eyes • and 1^1. •'"'""« '** ''°''« «" «» 
 
 8trong even in death. ' " P°"^""- »' '^0"'d appear, was 
 
104 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Page. 
 
 64 
 65 
 66 
 
 68 
 
 69 
 73 
 
 Mercury— Meaaeager of the Gods, Ac. 
 
 />auniVinnfl/io»_Rutulian8, so called from Daunua, frttherof TiirnuB 
 
 He$ioa'» cour/_He8ione, daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy and 
 sister of Priam. When Hercules conquered Troj, he gave her in 
 marriage to his friend Telamon, a Greek, king of the Island of 
 Salamis. 
 
 Pheneus — A.n Arcadian city. 
 
 Vulcan— God of fire. 
 
 ^Icidet - Hercules, set note, p. 43. 
 
 Geryon't death— See note, p. 44. 
 
 Tirynthius — Hercules. 
 
 .VaWt-Priests of Mars; on the festival days they went through the 
 streets dancing and singing. 
 
 Stepmother— imo, whose hatred commenced before his bfrth, s^nt 
 two snakes to devour him, when he was only 8 months old ; but 
 the precocious little hero proved more than a match for them 
 
 Troy and Oecfto/ia-Laomedon, king of Troy, failing to give him 
 the promised reward for having destroyed the sea-monster by 
 Which his daughter Hesione was to have been devoured, he 
 attacked and pillaged Troy. Oechalia mot with a similar fate 
 Its king Eurytus having denied him his daughter lole. ' 
 
 r.urystheu,-Kmg of Argos and Mycenae. Before he and Hercules 
 were born, Juno, having artfully extorted a promise from Jupiter 
 that the younger should be subject to the will of the elder, caused 
 bis birth to be hastened by two months, and thus gained for him the 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Pagb. 
 
 105 
 
 73 
 
 74 
 76 
 
 destruction of t'he /emr„ , Ll LTm ?• '*"."''' *°' "'^ = '"^^ 
 K^gions of the three-headed Oer'b s atd 1 " "'^ '"'""^^ 
 Hydra or water-snake of r ^mo wu '. ^^ ''^^qu^st of the 
 
 ing up in the place of every one th"' ' '''^ ''*'^' ^'^^ «P""«- 
 i-Ao/u, «„rf /fZ JtI ofThe Cent '''' '"* °''' 
 Typhoeus-oL of f'>«n . ^*^ntaur8, see note, p. 44. 
 
 *«'«'•«— See note, p. 9. 
 -^■^ylum^s tt.c-.When Romulus built Rnm» 1. 
 
 in order to procure inh^n foHt ! / ''.'°'"**' ^"^ ■^'^'"'" 
 cnminals flowing thither frotl'Tde' "'""' '"^'^""^ «"^ 
 
 Znj,.rc«/-.The Bite of a temple built by Evand. • . 
 the God of shepherds &o • „ ,' 7^'^'*°der in honor of Pan, 
 
 mountain of A^Jltll^-J:^;]^^^^^ J- L.c.us, a 
 sian observance ^ *^ *" Arcadian or Parrha- 
 
 "0 feet ,crp<.„dicoI.r '""""«"'■■ »"« lb, Tarpei„„ rock, 
 
lOd 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 77 
 
 92 
 
 92 
 
 Paob. 
 
 76 ./Ug-w— Jupiter's shield. 
 
 Roman Forum and Carina proud-the former the groat place for 
 
 edmces"""'"' '^' ^*"" * ''*" °^ '•'' "''^ celebrated for its 
 Fu/can-the God of fire, also patron of artists in iron and metals. 
 
 and himself a great artist, was husband of the Goddess Venus 
 yereu,' dauffhter^Thetis, a sea-goddess, mother of the g;eat 
 
 Achilles, whom Vulcan, at her request, supplied with arms. 
 TUhonian spouse^Aurora, wiftof Tithonus, son of Laomedon, king 
 
 ot iroy, also obtained armour from Vulcan. 
 Cyc/opa— Vulcan's workmen. 
 
 ^S-u— The shield of Pallas or Minerva. 
 Cytheria — Name of Venus. 
 
 Twin 6oy«— Romulus and Remus. 
 
 «m««-a«. Gam6*~Instituted by Romulus, who, on one occasion 
 caused the women assembled there to be seized as wives for the 
 doubtful characters who had resorted to his asylum, pee note p 
 76. The Sabines were an ancient people of Italy, their chief c'itfr 
 Curds and their king at the time Tatius. After the war caused 
 by this event, the Sabine nation united with the Romans 
 
 Af|.h««-dictator of Alba in the reig-n of Tullus Hostilius, third king of 
 Rome, having after his defeat promised to assist tlie Romans 
 agamst their enemies, but proving false, was so punished 
 
 Porsema-^A king of Etruria, who made war against the Romans 
 in the interest of their banished king Tarquin. and would have 
 
 78 
 
 80 
 
 85 
 91 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Pa OK. 
 
 107 
 
 93 
 
 ■^bind were *n.oHsCi. ..7™.^'' T""" "" """P""""' 
 »»a .l.ea himself l-^ptZioZ^Z^^f "■» «o«.«u„ica«„„ , 
 a«/,v-„„e „f .„, B„J1 "'°., '"»' •"'l »"«"■ across to Rome 
 
 Sacra ° """' "" "Warded her In the Vi. 
 
 JMonKtw—when Borne was taV.n k. .i. „ 
 Of his co„„tr,„.o ,0 rcJJ^L ?'?• "'«•'«' "'"■ • ^7 
 
 cotered iMhe nigh,, hoVL'h'l': •:''•' "l'""" "»"'<"«" 
 to Juno there. ""™ «"" •>/ 'he geese sacred 
 
 *"'"— See note, p. M rhn t.j t 
 fallen fro. hea'en in fhe 're ^ TnL'! ''' f^^'^ ^^^^ to have 
 s.ons carried it and others thrl ,, .u ' ^°^ °° «"t*'° occa- 
 Kuished by woollen tufts ^' *'" "'*^' *^«»r '^''Ps distin- 
 
 Luperci—See note n ^r p • 
 
 « -ked state a.'tL Sti.^^ronh'e God""" "'"• "'" ^'-^ '" 
 Chaste matrons— thia ii/>n« 
 
 .he judges of the Infernal 8™"^°"" '° ""' '""' """c «« of 
 
108 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Paob. i 
 
 93 Man fiffhl-xhe famous battle of Actium ; in which Augustus 
 
 C»3ar wuh the help of the celebrated Agrlppa, defeated Antony 
 ana Oleopatra. ^ 
 
 94 Cycladis-Manda in the ^gean Sea-the eastern part of the Medit- 
 
 erranean. 
 
 '' ^"TJ^ZL 'n^T ''"""■''• "'*' '""''^y ''■ '''' '"''^^ "t«« or the 
 
 ^^gyptian God Isis. 
 Man Jpollo^s. famous statue of Apollo stood upon the proraon- 
 orjr of Actium. Before the battle Augustus prayed to it for X 
 
 96 Mulciber — Vulcan.