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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XI Chapter 7: More funeral pyres | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Meanwhile o'er sorrowing mortals the bright morn had lifted her mild beam, renewing so the burden of man's toil. Aeneas now built funeral pyres along the winding shore, King Tarchon at his side. Each thither brought the bodies of his kin, observing well all ancient ritual. The fuming fires burned from beneath, till highest heaven was hid in blackest, overmantling cloud. Three times the warriors, sheathed in proud, resplendent steel, paced round the kindling pyres; and three times fair companies of horsemen circled slow, with loud lamenting, round the doleful flame. The wail of warriors and the trumpets' blare the very welkin rend. Cast on the flames are spoils of slaughtered Latins, -- helms and blades, bridles and chariot-wheels. Yet others bring gifts to the dead familiar, their own shields and unavailing spears. Around them slain great herds of kine give tribute unto death: swine, bristly-backed, from many a field are borne, and slaughtered sheep bleed o'er the sacred fire. So on the shore the wailing multitude behold their comrades burning, and keep guard o'er the consuming pyres, nor turn away till cooling night re-shifts the globe of heaven, thick-strewn with numberless far-flaming stars. |
182-202 Aurora interea miseris mortalibus almam extulerat lucem referens opera atque labores: iam pater Aeneas, iam curuo in litore Tarchon constituere pyras. huc corpora quisque suorum more tulere patrum, subiectisque ignibus atris conditur in tenebras altum caligine caelum. ter circum accensos cincti fulgentibus armis decurrere rogos, ter maestum funeris ignem lustrauere in equis ululatusque ore dedere. spargitur et tellus lacrimis, sparguntur et arma, it caelo clamorque uirum clangorque tubarum. hic alii spolia occisis derepta Latinis coniciunt igni, galeas ensisque decoros frenaque feruentisque rotas; pars munera nota, ipsorum clipeos et non felicia tela. multa boum circa mactantur corpora Morti, saetigerosque sues raptasque ex omnibus agris in flammam iugulant pecudes. tum litore toto ardentis spectant socios semustaque seruant busta, neque auelli possunt, nox umida donec inuertit caelum stellis ardentibus aptum. |