Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Foremost in fight, from shores Etrurian came
  2. Mezentius, scornful rebel against Heaven,
  3. his people all in arms; and at his side
  4. Lausus his heir (no fairer youth than he,
  5. save Turnus of Laurentum), Lausus, skilled
  6. o break proud horses and wild beasts to quell;
  7. who from Agylla's citadel in vain
  8. led forth his thousand warriors: worthy he
  9. to serve a nobler sire, and happier far
  10. he had ne'er been born Mezentius' son.