Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. In horror and amaze the Trojans all
  2. dispersed and fled; had but the conqueror thought
  3. to break the barriers of the gates and call
  4. his followers through, that fatal day had seen
  5. an ending of the Teucrians and their war.
  6. But frenzied joy of slaughter urged him on,
  7. infuriate, to smite the scattering foe.
  8. First Phaleris he caught; then cut the knees
  9. of Gyges; both their spears he snatched away
  10. and hurled them at the rout; 't was Juno roused
  11. his utmost might of rage. Now Halys fell,
  12. and Phegeus, whom he pierced right through the shield:
  13. next, at the walls and urging reckless war,
  14. Alcander, Halius, and Noemon gave
  15. their lives, and Prytanis went down. In vain
  16. Lynceus made stand and called his comrades brave:
  17. for Turnus from the right with waving sword
  18. caught at him and lopped off with one swift blow
  19. the head, which with its helmet rolled away.
  20. Next Amycus, destroyer of wild beasts,
  21. who knew full well to smear a crafty barb
  22. with venomed oil; young Clytius he slew,
  23. son of the wind-god; then on Cretheus fell,
  24. a follower of the muses and their friend:
  25. Cretheus, whose every joy it was to sing,
  26. and fit his numbers to the chorded Iyre;
  27. steeds, wars, armed men were his perpetual song.