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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book IX Chapter 19: Incantation | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Aid, O Calliope, the martial song! Tell me what carnage and how many deaths the sword of Turnus wrought: what peer in arms each hero to the world of ghosts sent down. Unroll the war's great book before these eyes. |
525-528 Vos, o Calliope, precor, aspirate canenti quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus ediderit, quem quisque uirum demiserit Orco, et mecum ingentis oras euoluite belli. |