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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 12: Participants and prizes of the foot-race | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Then good Aeneas, the ship-contest o'er, turned to a wide green valley, circled round with clasp of wood-clad hills, wherein was made an amphitheatre; entering with a throng of followers, the hero took his seat in mid-arena on a lofty mound. For the fleet foot-race, now, his summons flies, -- he offers gifts, and shows the rewards due. The mingling youth of Troy and Sicily hastened from far. Among the foremost came the comrades Nisus and Euryalus, Euryalus for beauty's bloom renowned, Nisus for loyal love; close-following these Diores strode, a prince of Priam's line; then Salius and Patron, who were bred in Acarnania and Arcady; then two Sicilian warriors, Helymus and Panopes, both sylvan bred and born, comrades of king Acestes; after these the multitude whom Fame forgets to tell. Aeneas, so surrounded, thus spake forth: Hear what I purpose, and with joy receive! of all your company, not one departs with empty hand. The Cretan javelins bright-tipped with burnished steel, and battle-axe adorned with graven silver, these shall be the meed of all. The three first at the goal shall bind their foreheads with fair olive green, and win the rewards due. The first shall lead, victorious, yon rich-bridled steed away; this Amazonian quiver, the next prize, well-stocked with Thracian arrows; round it goes a baldrick broad and golden, -- in its clasp a lustrous gem. The third man goes away taking this helmet from the Argive spoil. |
286-314 Hoc pius Aeneas misso certamine tendit gramineum in campum, quem collibus undique curuis cingebant siluae, mediaque in ualle theatri circus erat; quo se multis cum milibus heros consessu medium tulit exstructoque resedit. hic, qui forte uelint rapido contendere cursu, inuitat pretiis animos, et praemia ponit. undique conueniunt Teucri mixtique Sicani, Nisus et Euryalus primi, Euryalus forma insignis uiridique iuuenta, Nisus amore pio pueri; quos deinde secutus regius egregia Priami de stirpe Diores; hunc Salius simul et Patron, quorum alter Acarnan, alter ab Arcadio Tegeaeae sanguine gentis; tum duo Trinacrii iuuenes, Helymus Panopesque adsueti siluis, comites senioris Acestae; multi praeterea, quos fama obscura recondit. Aeneas quibus in mediis sic deinde locutus: 'accipite haec animis laetasque aduertite mentes. nemo ex hoc numero mihi non donatus abibit. Cnosia bina dabo leuato lucida ferro spicula caelatamque argento ferre bipennem; omnibus hic erit unus honos. tres praemia primi accipient flauaque caput nectentur oliua. primus equum phaleris insignem uictor habeto; alter Amazoniam pharetram plenamque sagittis Threiciis, lato quam circum amplectitur auro balteus et tereti subnectit fibula gemma; tertius Argolica hac galea contentus abito.' |