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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VIII Chapter 24: To Tarchon | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Now forth beneath the wide-swung city-gates the mounted squadron poured; Aeneas rode, companioned of Achates, in the van; then other lords of Troy. There Pallas shone conspicuous in the midmost line, with cloak and blazoned arms, as when the Morning-star (To Venus dearest of all orbs that burn), out of his lucent bath in ocean wave lifts to the skies his countenance divine, and melts the shadows of the night away. Upon the ramparts trembling matrons stand and follow with dimmed eyes the dusty cloud whence gleam the brazen arms. The warriors ride straight on through brake and fell, the nearest way; loud ring the war-cries, and in martial line the pounding hoof-beats shake the crumbling ground. By Caere's cold flood lies an ample grove revered from age to age. The hollowing hills enclasp it in wide circles of dark fir, and the Pelasgians, so the legends tell, primaeval settlers of the Latin plains, called it the haunt of Silvan, kindly god of flocks and fields, and honoring the grove gave it a festal day. Hard by this spot had Tarchon with the Tuscans fortified his bivouac, and from the heights afar his legions could be seen in wide array outstretching through the plain. To meet them there Aeneas and his veteran chivalry made sure advance, and found repose at eve for warrior travel-worn and fainting steed. Event: Aeneas visits Evander |
585-607 Iamque adeo exierat portis equitatus apertis Aeneas inter primos et fidus Achates, inde alii Troiae proceres; ipse agmine Pallas it medio chlamyde et pictis conspectus in armis, qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer unda, quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignis, extulit os sacrum caelo tenebrasque resoluit. stant pauidae in muris matres oculisque sequuntur pulueream nubem et fulgentis aere cateruas. olli per dumos, qua proxima meta uiarum, armati tendunt; it clamor, et agmine facto quadripedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum. est ingens gelidum lucus prope Caeritis amnem, religione patrum late sacer; undique colles inclusere caui et nigra nemus abiete cingunt. Siluano fama est ueteres sacrasse Pelasgos, aruorum pecorisque deo, lucumque diemque, qui primi finis aliquando habuere Latinos. haud procul hinc Tarcho et Tyrrheni tuta tenebant castra locis, celsoque omnis de colle uideri iam poterat legio et latis tendebat in aruis. huc pater Aeneas et bello lecta iuuentus succedunt, fessique et equos et corpora curant. |