Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. First, side by side, with sturdy, rival oars,
  2. four noble galleys, pride of all the fleet,
  3. come forward to contend. The straining crew
  4. of Mnestheus bring his speedy Pristis on, —
  5. Mnestheus in Italy erelong the sire
  6. of Memmius' noble line. Brave Gyas guides
  7. his vast Chimaera, a colossal craft,
  8. a floating city, by a triple row
  9. of Dardan sailors manned, whose banks of oars
  10. in triple order rise. Sergestus, he
  11. of whom the Sergian house shall after spring,
  12. rides in his mighty Centaur. Next in line,
  13. on sky-blue Scylla proud Cloanthus rides —
  14. whence thy great stem, Cluentius of Rome!