Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Arrived the wished-for day; through cloudless sky
  2. the coursers of the Sun's bright-beaming car
  3. bore upward the ninth morn. The neighboring folk
  4. thronged eager to the shore; some hoped to see
  5. Aeneas and his warriors, others fain
  6. would their own prowess prove in bout and game.
  7. Conspicuous lie the rewards, ranged in sight
  8. in the mid-circus; wreaths of laurel green,
  9. the honored tripod, coronals of palm
  10. for conquerors' brows, accoutrements of war,
  11. rare robes of purple stain, and generous weight
  12. of silver and of gold. The trumpet's call
  13. proclaimed from lofty mound the opening games.