Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Now Agamemnon's kinsman, cruel foe
  2. to the mere name of Troy, Halaesus, yokes
  3. the horses of his car and summons forth
  4. a thousand savage clans at Turnus' call :
  5. rude men whose mattocks to the Massic hills
  6. bring Bacchus' bounty, or by graybeard sires
  7. sent from Auruncan upland and the mead
  8. of Sidicinum; out of Cales came
  9. its simple folk; and dwellers by the stream
  10. of many-shoaled Volturnus, close-allied
  11. with bold Saticulan or Oscan swains.
  12. Their arms are tapered javelins, which they wear
  13. bound by a coiling thong; a shield conceals
  14. the left side, and they fight with crooked swords.