Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Nor shalt thou, Oebalus, depart unsung,
  2. whom minstrels say the nymph Sebethis bore
  3. to Telon, who in Capri was a king
  4. when old and gray; but that disdaining son
  5. quitted so small a seat, and conquering sway
  6. among Sarrastian folk and those wide plains
  7. watered by Sarnus' wave, became a king
  8. over Celenna, Rufrae, Batulum,
  9. and where among her apple-orchards rise
  10. Abella's walls. All these, as Teutons use,
  11. hurl a light javelin; for helm they wear
  12. stripped cork-tree bark; the crescent of their shields
  13. is gleaming bronze, and gleaming bronze the sword.