Aeneid

Virgil

Vergil. The Aeneid of Virgil. Williams, Theodore, C, translator. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

  1. First Massicus his brazen Tigress rode,
  2. cleaving the brine; a thousand warriors
  3. were with him out of Clusium's walls, or from
  4. the citadel of Coste, who for arms
  5. had arrows, quivers from the shoulder slung,
  6. and deadly bows. Grim Abas near him sailed;
  7. his whole band wore well-blazoned mail; his ship
  8. displayed the form of Phoebus, all of gold:
  9. to him had Populonia consigned
  10. (His mother-city, she) six hundred youth
  11. well-proven in war; three hundred Elba gave,
  12. an island rich in unexhausted ores
  13. of iron, like the Chalybes. Next came
  14. Asilas, who betwixt the gods and men
  15. interprets messages and reads clear signs
  16. in victims' entrails, or the stars of heaven,
  17. or bird-talk, or the monitory flames
  18. of lightning: he commands a thousand men
  19. close lined, with bristling spears, of Pisa all,
  20. that Tuscan city of Alpheus sprung.
  21. Then Astur followed, a bold horseman he,
  22. Astur in gorgeous arms, himself most fair:
  23. three hundred are his men, one martial mind
  24. uniting all: in Caere they were bred
  25. and Minio's plain, and by the ancient towers
  26. of Pyrgo or Gravisca's storm-swept hill.