Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Lo, Turnus strides conspicuous in the van,
  2. full armed, of mighty frame, his lordly head
  3. high o'er his peers emerging! His tall helm
  4. with flowing triple crest for ensign bears
  5. Chimaera, whose terrific lips outpour
  6. volcanic fires; where'er the menace moves
  7. of her infernal flames and wrathful frown,
  8. there wildest flows the purple flood of war.
  9. On his smooth shield deep graven in the gold
  10. is horned Io—wondrous the device!—
  11. a shaggy heifer-shape the maiden shows;
  12. Argus is watching her, while Inachus
  13. pours forth his river from the pictured urn.
  14. A storm of tramping troops, to Turnus sworn,
  15. throngs all the widespread plain with serried shields:
  16. warriors of Argos, and Auruncan bands,
  17. Sicani, Rutuli, Sacranian hosts,
  18. Labicum's painted shields; all who till
  19. thy woodland vales, O Tiber! or the shore
  20. Numicius hallows; all whose ploughs upturn
  21. Rutulia's hills, or that Circaean range
  22. where Jove of Anxur guards, and forests green
  23. make fair Feronia glad; where lie the fens
  24. of Satura, and Ufens' icy wave
  25. through lowland valleys seeks his seaward way.