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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 29: The Foundation of Acesta | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Straightway he calls assembly of his friends, -- Acestes first in honor, -- and makes known Jove's will, the counsel of his cherished sire, and his own fresh resolve. With prompt assent they hear his word, nor does Acestes fail the task to share. They people the new town with women; and leave every wight behind who wills it -- souls not thirsting for high praise. Themselves re-bench their ships, rebuild, and fit with rope and oar the flame-swept galleys all; a band not large, but warriors bold and true. Aeneas, guiding with his hand a plough, marks out the city's ground, gives separate lands by lot, and bids within this space appear a second Troy. Trojan Acestes takes the kingly power, and with benignant joy appoints a forum, and decrees just laws before a gathered senate. Then they raise on that star-circled Erycinian hill, the temple to Idalian Venus dear; and at Anchises' sepulchre ordain a priesthood and wide groves of hallowed shade. Event: Aeneas on Sicily |
746-761 Extemplo socios primumque accersit Acesten et Iouis imperium et cari praecepta parentis edocet et quae nunc animo sententia constet. haud mora consiliis, nec iussa recusat Acestes: transcribunt urbi matres populumque uolentem deponunt, animos nil magnae laudis egentis. ipsi transtra nouant flammisque ambesa reponunt robora nauigiis, aptant remosque rudentisque, exigui numero, sed bello uiuida uirtus. interea Aeneas urbem designat aratro sortiturque domos; hoc Ilium et haec loca Troiam esse iubet. gaudet regno Troianus Acestes indicitque forum et patribus dat iura uocatis. tum uicina astris Erycino in uertice sedes fundatur Veneri Idaliae, tumuloque sacerdos ac lucus late sacer additus Anchiseo. |