Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Last came Camilla, of the Volscians bred,
  2. leading her mail-clad, radiant chivalry;
  3. a warrior-virgin, of Minerva's craft
  4. of web and distaff, fit for woman's toil,
  5. no follower she; but bared her virgin breast
  6. to meet the brunt of battle, and her speed
  7. left even the winds behind; for she would skim
  8. an untouched harvest ere the sickle fell,
  9. nor graze the quivering wheat-tops as she ran;
  10. or o'er the mid-sea billows' swollen surge
  11. so swiftly race, she wet not in the wave
  12. her flying feet. For sight of her the youth
  13. from field and fortress sped, and matrons grave
  14. stood wondering as she passed, well-pleased to see
  15. her royal scarf in many a purple fold
  16. float off her shining shoulder, her dark hair
  17. in golden clasp caught fast, and how she bore
  18. for arms a quiver of the Lycian mode,
  19. and shepherd's shaft of myrtle tipped with steel.