Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Swift through the midmost slaughter proudly strides
  2. the quiver-girt Camilla, with one breast
  3. thrust naked to the fight, like Amazon.
  4. Oft from her hand her pliant shafts she rains,
  5. or whirls with indefatigable arm
  6. a doughty battle-axe; her shoulder bears
  7. Diana's sounding arms and golden bow.
  8. Sometimes retreating and to flight compelled,
  9. the maiden with a rearward-pointing bow
  10. shoots arrows as she flies. Around her move
  11. her chosen peers, Larina, virgin brave,
  12. Tarpeia, brandishing an axe of bronze,
  13. and Tulla, virgins out of Italy
  14. whom the divine Camilla chose to be
  15. her glory, each a faithful servitress
  16. in days of peace or war. The maids of Thrace
  17. ride thus along Thermodon's frozen flood,
  18. and fight with blazoned Amazonian arms
  19. around Hippolyta; or when returns
  20. Penthesilea in triumphal car
  21. 'mid acclamations shrill, and all her host
  22. of women clash in air the moon-shaped shield.