Aeneid

Virgil

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

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