Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Behold Murranus, boasting his high birth
  2. from far-descended sires of storied name,
  3. the line of Latium's kings! Aeneas now
  4. with mountain-boulder lays him low in dust,
  5. smitten with whirlwind of the monster stone;
  6. and o'er him fallen under yoke and rein
  7. roll his own chariot wheels, while with swift tread
  8. the mad hoofs of his horses stamp him down,
  9. not knowing him their lord. But Turnus found
  10. proud Hyllus fronting him with frantic rage,
  11. and at his golden helmet launched the shaft
  12. that pierced it; in his cloven brain it clung.
  13. Nor could thy sword, O Cretheus, save thee then
  14. from Turnus, though of bravest Greeks the peer;
  15. nor did Cupencus' gods their priest defend
  16. against Aeneas, but his breast he gave
  17. unto the hostile blade; his brazen shield
  18. delayed no whit his miserable doom.
  19. Thee also, Aeolus, Laurentum saw
  20. spread thy huge body dying on the ground;
  21. yea, dying, thou whom Greeks in serried arms
  22. subdued not, nor Achilles' hand that hurled
  23. the throne of Priam down: here didst thou touch
  24. thy goal of death; one stately house was thine
  25. on Ida's mountain, at Lyrnessus, one;
  26. Laurentum's hallowed earth was but thy grave.
  27. Now the whole host contends; all Latium meets
  28. all Ilium; Mnestheus and Serestus bold;
  29. Messapus, the steed-breaker, and high-soured
  30. Asilas; Tuscans in a phalanx proud;
  31. Arcadian riders of Evander's train:
  32. each warrior lifts him to his height supreme
  33. of might and skill; no sloth nor lingering now,
  34. but in one far-spread conflict all contend.