Aeneid

Virgil

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

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