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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XI Chapter 19: An ambush is prepared | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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There is a winding vale for armed deception and insidious war well fashioned, and by interlacing leaves screened darkly in; a small path thither leads, through strait defile a passage boding ill. Above it, on a mountain's lofty brow, are points of outlook, level spaces fair, and many a safe, invisible retreat from whence on either hand to challenge war, or, standing on the ridges, to roll down huge mountain boulders. Thither Turnus fared, and, ranging the familiar tract, chose out his cunning ambush in the dangerous grove. |
522-531 Est curuo anfractu ualles, accommoda fraudi armorumque dolis, quam densis frondibus atrum urget utrimque latus, tenuis quo semita ducit angustaeque ferunt fauces aditusque maligni. hanc super in speculis summoque in uertice montis planities ignota iacet tutique receptus, seu dextra laeuaque uelis occurrere pugnae siue instare iugis et grandia uoluere saxa. huc iuuenis nota fertur regione uiarum arripuitque locum et siluis insedit iniquis. |