Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Next, Virbius in martial beauty rode,
  2. son of Hippolytus, whose mother, proud
  3. Aricia, sent him in his flower of fame
  4. out of Egeria's hills and cloudy groves
  5. where lies Diana's gracious, gifted fane.
  6. For legend whispers that Hippolytus,
  7. by step-dame's plot undone, his life-blood gave
  8. to sate his vengeful father, and was rent
  9. in sunder by wild horses; but the grave
  10. to air of heaven and prospect of the stars
  11. restored him;—for Diana's love and care
  12. poured out upon him Paeon's healing balm.
  13. But Jove, almighty Sire, brooked not to see
  14. a mortal out of death and dark reclimb
  15. to light of life, and with a thunderbolt
  16. hurled to the Stygian river Phoebus' son,
  17. who dared such good elixir to compound.
  18. But pitying Trivia hid Hippolytus
  19. in her most secret cave, and gave in ward
  20. to the wise nymph Egeria in her grove;
  21. where he lived on inglorious and alone,
  22. ranging the woods of Italy, and bore
  23. the name of Virbius. 'T is for this cause
  24. the hallowed woods to Trivia's temple vowed
  25. forbid loud-footed horses, such as spilled
  26. stripling and chariot on the fatal shore,
  27. scared by the monsters peering from the sea.
  28. Yet did the son o'er that tumultuous plain
  29. his battle-chariot guide and plunging team.