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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book II Chapter 26: Aeneas leaves Troy | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Then loomed o'er Troy the apparition vast of her dread foes divine; I [Note 1] seemed to see all Ilium sink in fire, and sacred Troy, of Neptune's building, utterly o'erthrown. So some huge ash-tree on the mountain's brow (when rival woodmen, heaving stroke on stroke of two-edged axes, haste to cast her down) sways ominously her trembling, leafy top, and drops her smitten head; till by her wounds vanquished at last, she makes her dying groan, and falls in loud wreck from the cliffs uptorn. I left the citadel; and, led by Heaven, threaded the maze of deadly foes and fires, through spears that glanced aside and flames that fell. Note 1: I = Aeneas Event: The Flight of Aeneas |
624-633 Tum uero omne mihi uisum considere in ignis Ilium et ex imo uerti Neptunia Troia: ac ueluti summis antiquam in montibus ornum cum ferro accisam crebrisque bipennibus instant eruere agricolae certatim, illa usque minatur et tremefacta comam concusso uertice nutat, uulneribus donec paulatim euicta supremum congemuit traxitque iugis auulsa ruinam. descendo ac ducente deo flammam inter et hostis expedior: dant tela locum flammaeque recedunt. |