Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. In mocking answer to the prophetess
  2. the warrior thus replied: “That stranger fleet
  3. in Tiber moored, not, as thy folly prates,
  4. of me unnoted lies. Vex me no more
  5. with thy fantastic terror. Juno's power
  6. is watchful of my cause. 'T is mere old age,
  7. gone to decay and dotage, fills thy breast
  8. with vain foreboding, and, while kings contend,
  9. scares and deceives thy visionary eye.
  10. Guard thou in yonder temple's holy shade
  11. the images divine! Of peace and war
  12. let men and warriors the burden bear!”