Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Thus Latium's cause moved on. Meanwhile the heir
  2. of great Laomedon, who knew full well
  3. the whole wide land astir, was vexed and tossed
  4. in troubled seas of care. This way and that
  5. his swift thoughts flew, and scanned with like dismay
  6. each partial peril or the general storm.
  7. Thus the vexed waters at a fountain's brim,
  8. smitten by sunshine or the silver sphere
  9. of a reflected moon, send forth a beam
  10. of flickering light that leaps from wall to wall,
  11. or, skyward lifted in ethereal flight,
  12. glances along some rich-wrought, vaulted dome.
  13. Now night had fallen, and all weary things,
  14. all shapes of beast or bird, the wide world o'er,
  15. lay deep in slumber. So beneath the arch
  16. of a cold sky Aeneas laid him down
  17. upon the river-bank, his heart sore tried
  18. by so much war and sorrow, and gave o'er
  19. his body to its Iong-delayed repose.
  20. There, 'twixt the poplars by the gentle stream,
  21. the River-Father, genius of that place,
  22. old Tiberinus visibly uprose;
  23. a cloak of gray-green lawn he wore, his hair
  24. o'erhung with wreath of reeds. In soothing words
  25. thus, to console Aeneas' cares, he spoke: