Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. So saying, he bade his followers renew
  2. th' abandoned feast and wine; and placed each guest
  3. on turf-built couch of green, most honoring
  4. Aeneas by a throne of maple fair
  5. decked with a lion's pelt and flowing mane.
  6. Then high-born pages, with the altar's priest,
  7. bring on the roasted beeves and load the board
  8. with baskets of fine bread; and wine they bring —
  9. of Ceres and of Bacchus gift and toil.
  10. While good Aeneas and his Trojans share
  11. the long whole ox and meats of sacrifice.