Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Arrived the wished-for day; through cloudless sky
  2. the coursers of the Sun's bright-beaming car
  3. bore upward the ninth morn. The neighboring folk
  4. thronged eager to the shore; some hoped to see
  5. Aeneas and his warriors, others fain
  6. would their own prowess prove in bout and game.
  7. Conspicuous lie the rewards, ranged in sight
  8. in the mid-circus; wreaths of laurel green,
  9. the honored tripod, coronals of palm
  10. for conquerors' brows, accoutrements of war,
  11. rare robes of purple stain, and generous weight
  12. of silver and of gold. The trumpet's call
  13. proclaimed from lofty mound the opening games.
  1. First, side by side, with sturdy, rival oars,
  2. four noble galleys, pride of all the fleet,
  3. come forward to contend. The straining crew
  4. of Mnestheus bring his speedy Pristis on, —
  5. Mnestheus in Italy erelong the sire
  6. of Memmius' noble line. Brave Gyas guides
  7. his vast Chimaera, a colossal craft,
  8. a floating city, by a triple row
  9. of Dardan sailors manned, whose banks of oars
  10. in triple order rise. Sergestus, he
  11. of whom the Sergian house shall after spring,
  12. rides in his mighty Centaur. Next in line,
  13. on sky-blue Scylla proud Cloanthus rides —
  14. whence thy great stem, Cluentius of Rome!