Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. So spake the prophet with benignant voice.
  2. Then gifts he bade be brought of heavy gold
  3. and graven ivory, which to our ships
  4. he bade us bear; each bark was Ioaded full
  5. with messy silver and Dodona's pride
  6. of brazen cauldrons; a cuirass he gave
  7. of linked gold enwrought and triple chain;
  8. a noble helmet, too, with flaming crest
  9. and lofty cone, th' accoutrement erewhile
  10. of Neoptolemus. My father too
  11. had fit gifts from the King; whose bounty then
  12. gave steeds and riders; and new gear was sent
  13. to every sea-worn ship, while he supplied
  14. seafarers, kit to all my loyal crews.