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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VII Chapter 34: Oebalus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Nor shalt thou, Oebalus, depart unsung, whom minstrels say the nymph Sebethis bore to Telon, who in Capri was a king when old and gray; but that disdaining son quitted so small a seat, and conquering sway among Sarrastian folk and those wide plains watered by Sarnus' wave, became a king over Celenna, Rufrae, Batulum, and where among her apple-orchards rise Abella's walls. All these, as Teutons use, hurl a light javelin; for helm they wear stripped cork-tree bark; the crescent of their shields is gleaming bronze, and gleaming bronze the sword. |
733-743 Nec tu carminibus nostris indictus abibis, Oebale, quem generasse Telon Sebethide nympha fertur, Teleboum Capreas cum regna teneret, iam senior; patriis sed non et filius aruis contentus late iam tum dicione premebat Sarrastis populos et quae rigat aequora Sarnus, quique Rufras Batulumque tenent atque arua Celemnae, et quos maliferae despectant moenia Abellae, Teutonico ritu soliti torquere cateias; tegmina quis capitum raptus de subere cortex aerataeque micant peltae, micat aereus ensis. |