Aeneid

Virgil

Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.

  1. nituntur gradibus, clipeosque ad tela sinistris
  2. protecti obiciunt, prensant fastigia dextris.
  3. Dardanidae contra turris ac tota domorum
  4. culmina convellunt; his se, quando ultima cernunt,
  5. extrema iam in morte parant defendere telis;
  6. auratasque trabes, veterum decora alta parentum,
  7. devolvunt; alii strictis mucronibus imas
  8. obsedere fores; has servant agmine denso.
  9. Instaurati animi, regis succurrere tectis,
  10. auxilioque levare viros, vimque addere victis.
  11. Limen erat caecaeque fores et pervius usus
  12. tectorum inter se Priami, postesque relicti
  13. a tergo, infelix qua se, dum regna manebant,
  14. saepius Andromache ferre incomitata solebat
  15. ad soceros, et avo puerum Astyanacta trahebat.
  16. Evado ad summi fastigia culminis, unde
  17. tela manu miseri iactabant inrita Teucri.
  18. Turrim in praecipiti stantem summisque sub astra
  19. eductam tectis, unde omnis Troia videri
  20. et Danaum solitae naves et Achaia castra,