Aeneid

Virgil

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

  1. Attulit ipse viris optatum casus honorem.
  2. Namque furens animi dum proram ad saxa suburguet
  3. interior, spatioque subit Sergestus iniquo,
  4. infelix saxis in procurrentibus haesit.
  5. Concussae cautes, et acuto in murice remi
  6. obnixi crepuere, inlisaque prora pependit.
  7. Consurgunt nautae et magno clamore morantur,
  8. ferratasque trudes et acuta cuspide contos
  9. expediunt, fractosque legunt in gurgite remos.
  10. At laetus Mnestheus successuque acrior ipso
  11. agmine remorum celeri ventisque vocatis
  12. prona petit maria et pelago decurrit aperto.
  13. Qualis spelunca subito commota columba,
  14. cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi,
  15. fertur in ana volans, plausumque exterrita pennis
  16. dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto
  17. radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas:
  18. sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis
  19. aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
  20. Et primum in scopulo luctantem deserit alto