Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Next after these, his brows and helmet bound
  2. with noble olive, from Marruvium came
  3. a priest, brave Umbro, ordered to the field
  4. by King Archippus: o'er the viper's brood,
  5. and venomed river-serpents he had power
  6. to scatter slumber with wide-waving hands
  7. and wizard-songs. His potent arts could soothe
  8. their coiling rage and heal the mortal sting:
  9. but 'gainst a Trojan sword no drug had he,
  10. nor could his drowsy spells his flesh repair,
  11. nor gathered simples from the Marsic hills.
  12. Thee soon in wailing woods Anguitia mourned,
  13. thee, Fucinus, the lake of crystal wave,
  14. thee, many a mountain-tarn!