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- 0:01Speaker 1: He said, Ilionius made this reply, O, king of Fawnes's
- 0:07Speaker 1: royal family, Nor wintry Windstullati forced our way, nor did
- 0:12Speaker 1: the stars our wandering course betray willing We sought your shores,
- 0:18Speaker 1: and hither bound the port so long desired. At length
- 0:22Speaker 1: we found from our sweet homes and ancient realms expelled.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Great is the greatest that the sun beheld. The god
- 0:32Speaker 1: began our line, who rules above, and as our race,
- 0:37Speaker 1: our king descends from Jove. And hither are we come
- 0:42Speaker 1: by his command to crave admission in your happy land.
- 0:48Speaker 1: How dire tempest from mycene poured our plains, our temples,
- 0:52Speaker 1: and our town devoured? What was the waste of war,
- 0:56Speaker 1: what fierce alarms shook Asia's crown with European arms. Even
- 1:02Speaker 1: such have heard, if such there be whose earth is
- 1:05Speaker 1: bounded by the frozen sea, and such as borne beneath
- 1:09Speaker 1: the burning sky and sultry sun betwixt the tropics lie
- 1:15Speaker 1: from that dire deluge, through the watery waste, such length
- 1:20Speaker 1: of years, such various perils pasted it last escaped to Lati.
- 1:26Speaker 1: We repair to beg what you, without your want, may
- 1:31Speaker 1: spare the common water and the common air sheds which
- 1:38Speaker 1: ourselves will build and mean abodes fit to receive and
- 1:42Speaker 1: serve our banished gods. Nor our admission shall your realm disgrace,
- 1:50Speaker 1: nor length of time our gratitude efface. Besides what endless
- 1:56Speaker 1: honor you shall gain to save and shelter troys unhappy betraying.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Now by my sovereign and his fate, I swear renowned
- 2:06Speaker 1: for faith, in peace, for force, in war, oft our alliance,
- 2:14Speaker 1: other lands desired, and what we seek of you, of
- 2:19Speaker 1: us required, Despite not then that in our hands we
- 2:24Speaker 1: bear these holy bows, sue with words of prayer Fate
- 2:31Speaker 1: and the gods, by their supreme command, have doomed our
- 2:34Speaker 1: ships to seek the Latian land to these abodes. Our
- 2:38Speaker 1: fleet Apollo sins here. Dardinus was born in hither Tends,
- 2:45Speaker 1: where Tuscan Tiber rolls with rapid force, and where Numicus
- 2:49Speaker 1: opes his holy source. Besides, our prince presents with his
- 2:54Speaker 1: request some small remains of what his sire possessed. This
- 2:59Speaker 1: golden charger snatched from burning troy Anchises did in sacrifice
- 3:05Speaker 1: employ this royal robe in this tiara wore old Priam,
- 3:12Speaker 1: and this golden scepter bore in full assemblies and in
- 3:16Speaker 1: solemn games. These purple vests were weaved by Dardan Dames. Thus,
- 3:24Speaker 1: while he spoke, Latinus rolled around his eyes and fixed
- 3:27Speaker 1: a while upon the ground. Intent he seemed and anxious
- 3:31Speaker 1: in his breast, not by the scepter moved or kingly vest,
- 3:35Speaker 1: but pondering future things of wondrous weight, succession, empire, and
- 3:40Speaker 1: his daughter's fate. On these he mused within his thoughtful mind,
- 3:46Speaker 1: and then revolved what faunas had divined. This was the
- 3:51Speaker 1: foreign prince by fate decreed to share his scepter and
- 3:55Speaker 1: Lavigna's bed. This was the race that sure portence for
- 4:00Speaker 1: shee to sway the world in land and cease subdue.
- 4:07Speaker 1: At length, he raised his cheerful head and spoke the powers,
- 4:11Speaker 1: said he, the powers we both invoke to you, and
- 4:15Speaker 1: yours and mine propitious be infirm our purpose with their augury,
- 4:22Speaker 1: have what you ask your presence, I receive land where
- 4:28Speaker 1: and when you please, with ample leave, partake and use
- 4:34Speaker 1: my kingdom as your own. All shall be yours, while
- 4:37Speaker 1: I command the crown. And if my wished alliance please
- 4:42Speaker 1: your king, tell him he should not send the peace,
- 4:45Speaker 1: but bring then let him not a friend's embrace, his fear.
- 4:50Speaker 1: The peace is made when I behold him here. Besides
- 4:54Speaker 1: this answer, tell my royal guest, I add to his
- 4:57Speaker 1: commands my own request one only daughter, heirs my crown
- 5:03Speaker 1: and state, whom, not our oracles, nor Heaven, nor fate,
- 5:08Speaker 1: nor frequent prodigies, permit to join with any native of
- 5:12Speaker 1: the Ausonian line. A foreign son in law shall come
- 5:17Speaker 1: from far such is our doom, a chief renowned in war,
- 5:21Speaker 1: whose race shall bear aloft the Latian name, and through
- 5:25Speaker 1: the conquered world, diffuse our fame himself to be the
- 5:29Speaker 1: man the fates require I firmly judge, and what I
- 5:34Speaker 1: judge desire, he said, And then on each bestowed a steed.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Three hundred horses in high stables, fed, stood ready, shining
- 5:46Speaker 1: all and smoothly dressed. Of these, he chose the fairest
- 5:50Speaker 1: in the best to mount the Trojan troop at his command.
- 5:55Speaker 1: The steeds caparisoned with purple, stand with golden trappings, glorious
- 6:00Speaker 1: to behold, and champ betwixt their teeth the foaming gold.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Then to his absent guests, the king decreed a pair
- 6:08Speaker 1: of coursers born of heavenly breed, who from their nostrils
- 6:12Speaker 1: breathed ethereal fire, whom Circe stole from her celestial sire
- 6:20Speaker 1: by substituting mares produced on earth, whose wounds conceived a
- 6:24Speaker 1: more than mortal birth. These draw the chariot which Latinas sends,
- 6:30Speaker 1: and the rich present to the Prince commends sublime on
- 6:34Speaker 1: stately steeds. The Trojans born to their expecting lord with
- 6:38Speaker 1: peace return, But jealous Juno, from Pecina's height, as she
- 6:45Speaker 1: from Argus took her airy flight, beheld with envious eyes
- 6:50Speaker 1: this hateful sight. She saw the Trojan and his joyful
- 6:54Speaker 1: train descend upon the shore, desert the main design, and
- 7:00Speaker 1: with unhoped success, the ambassadors return with promised peace. Then,
- 7:06Speaker 1: pierced with pain, she shook her haughty head, sighed from
- 7:10Speaker 1: her inward soul, and thus she said, oh, hated offspring
- 7:15Speaker 1: of my Phrygian foes, Oh fates of Troy, which Juno's
- 7:21Speaker 1: fates suppose, could they not fall unpitied on the plain,
- 7:27Speaker 1: but slain, revive and take escape again? When execrable Troy
- 7:32Speaker 1: and Ashes lay through fires and swords and seas they
- 7:36Speaker 1: forced their way. Then vanquished Juno must in vain, contend
- 7:42Speaker 1: her rage, disarmed her empire at an end, breathless and tired,
- 7:47Speaker 1: is all my fury spent? Or does my glutted spleen
- 7:52Speaker 1: at length relent as if t were little from their
- 7:56Speaker 1: town to chase I through the seas, pursued the exiled race, engaged,
- 8:02Speaker 1: the heavens oppose the stormy main. But billows roared in tempest,
- 8:08Speaker 1: raged in vain, What if my sill is in my
- 8:12Speaker 1: surties done? When these they overpass, in those they shone
- 8:17Speaker 1: on Tiber's shores, they land secure of fate triumphant, or
- 8:22Speaker 1: the storms and Juno's hate Mars could in mutual blood
- 8:26Speaker 1: the Centaur's bathe, and Jove himself gave way to Cynthia's wrath,
- 8:31Speaker 1: who sent the Tusky boar to Kaleden. What great offense
- 8:35Speaker 1: had either people done? But I, consort of the Thunderer,
- 8:41Speaker 1: have waged a long and unsuccessful war with various arts
- 8:45Speaker 1: and arms. In vain, have toiled, and by a mortal man,
- 8:48Speaker 1: at length and foiled. If native power prevailed, not shall
- 8:53Speaker 1: I doubt to seek for needful succor from without. If
- 8:58Speaker 1: Jove in heaven my just desires deny hell shall the
- 9:04Speaker 1: power of Heaven and Jove supply grant that the fates
- 9:09Speaker 1: affirmed by their decree, the Trojan race to reign in Italy.
- 9:14Speaker 1: At least I can defer the nuptial day, and with
- 9:18Speaker 1: protracted wars the peace delay with blood, the dear alliance
- 9:22Speaker 1: shall be bought in both the people near destruction brought.
- 9:27Speaker 1: So shall the son in law and father join with
- 9:30Speaker 1: ruin war and waste of either line. Oh, fatal maid,
- 9:35Speaker 1: thy marriage is endowed with Phrygian, Latian and Rutulian blood.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Bellona leads thee to thy lover's hand. Another queen brings
- 9:45Speaker 1: forth another brand to burn with foreign fires another land.
- 9:51Speaker 1: A second paris differing, but in name shall fire his
- 9:55Speaker 1: country with a second flame. Thus heavy said, she sinks
- 10:01Speaker 1: beneath the ground with furious haste, and shoots Vestygian sound
- 10:07Speaker 1: to rouse Electo from the infernal seat of her dire
- 10:11Speaker 1: sisters and their dark retreat. This fury fit for her intent.
- 10:16Speaker 1: She chose one who delights in wars and human woes.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Even Pluto hates his own misshapen race. Her sister furies
- 10:27Speaker 1: fly her hideous face. So frightful are the forms the
- 10:31Speaker 1: monster takes so fierce the hissings of her speckled snakes,
- 10:36Speaker 1: her Juno finds, and thus inflames her spite, O, Virgin,
- 10:43Speaker 1: daughter of eternal Knight, give me this once thy labor
- 10:48Speaker 1: to sustain my right and execute my just disdain. Let
- 10:54Speaker 1: not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense of proffered peace,
- 10:58Speaker 1: delude the lation Prince expel from Italy that odious name.
- 11:03Speaker 1: And let not Juno suffer in her fame. Tis thine
- 11:08Speaker 1: to ruin realms, or turn a state betwixt the dearest friends,
- 11:13Speaker 1: to raise debate, enkindle, kindred blood, to mutual hate, thy
- 11:19Speaker 1: hand o'er towns. The funeral torch displays and forms a
- 11:23Speaker 1: thousand ills, ten thousand ways. Now shake out thy fruitful breast,
- 11:30Speaker 1: the seeds of envied discord and of cruel deeds confound
- 11:35Speaker 1: the peace establish'd, and prepare their souls to hatred and
- 11:40Speaker 1: their hands to war. Smear'd as she was with black
- 11:44Speaker 1: Gorgonian blood. The fury sprang above the Stygian flood, and
- 11:50Speaker 1: on her wicker wings sublime through night, she to the
- 11:54Speaker 1: Latian Palace, took her flight. There, sought the Queen's apartment,
- 12:00Speaker 1: good before the peaceful threshold and besieged the door. Restless,
- 12:05Speaker 1: Amata lay her swelling breast, fired with disdain for Turnus,
- 12:11Speaker 1: dispossessed and the new nuptials of the Trojan guest from
- 12:17Speaker 1: her black, bloody locks. The fury shakes her, darling plague,
- 12:21Speaker 1: the favorite of her snakes. With her full force, she
- 12:26Speaker 1: threw the poisonous dart and fixed it deep within Amata's heart,
- 12:33Speaker 1: that thus envenomed, she might kindle rage and sacrifice to
- 12:37Speaker 1: strife her house husband's age. Unseen, unfelt, the fiery serpent's
- 12:45Speaker 1: skims betwixt her linen and her naked limbs, his baleful
- 12:51Speaker 1: breath inspiring as he glides now like a chain around
- 12:56Speaker 1: her neck. He rides now like a filet to her head, repairs,
- 13:02Speaker 1: and with his circling volumes, folds her hairs. At first,
- 13:09Speaker 1: the silent venom slid with ease and seized her cooler
- 13:13Speaker 1: senses by degrees. Then ere the infected mass was fired
- 13:18Speaker 1: too far. In plaintive accents, she began the war, and
- 13:24Speaker 1: thus bespoke her husband.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Shell.
- 13:28Speaker 1: She said, a wandering prince in joy Lavinia's bed. If
- 13:33Speaker 1: nature plead not in apparent's heart, pity my tears and
- 13:38Speaker 1: pity her dessert. I know, my dearest lord, the time
- 13:43Speaker 1: will come you in vain reverse your cruel doom. The
- 13:48Speaker 1: faithless pirate soon will set to sea and bear the
- 13:51Speaker 1: royal virgin far away, A guest like him, a trojan
- 13:56Speaker 1: guest before, in shoe of friendship, sought the Bardenshaw, in
- 14:01Speaker 1: ravished Helen from her husband bore. Think on a king's
- 14:07Speaker 1: inviolable word, and think on turnus, her once plighted lord,
- 14:13Speaker 1: to this false foreigner. You give your throne and wrong
- 14:17Speaker 1: a friend, a kinsman, and a son, resume your ancient care.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And if the god your sire and you resolve on
- 14:27Speaker 1: foreign blood, know all are foreign in a larger sense,
- 14:31Speaker 1: not born. Your subjects are derived from. Hence, then if
- 14:36Speaker 1: the line of turnus you retrace he springs from inachus
- 14:41Speaker 1: of argive race. But when she saw her reasons idly
- 14:46Speaker 1: spent and could not move him from his fixed intent,
- 14:50Speaker 1: she flew to rage. For now the snake possessed her
- 14:54Speaker 1: vital parts and poisoned all her breast. She raves. She
- 14:59Speaker 1: runs with the distracted pace and fills with horrid howls
- 15:04Speaker 1: the public place, And as young striplings whipped the top
- 15:08Speaker 1: for sport. On the smooth pavement of an empty court.
- 15:12Speaker 1: The wooden engine flies and whirls about, admired with clamors
- 15:16Speaker 1: of the beardless route. They lash aloud each other, they
- 15:21Speaker 1: provoke and lend their little souls at every stroke. Thus
- 15:26Speaker 1: fares the queen, and thus her fury blows amidst the
- 15:30Speaker 1: crowd and kindles as she goes. Nor yet content, she
- 15:34Speaker 1: strains her malice more and adds new ills to those
- 15:38Speaker 1: contrived before she flies the town. In mixing with the
- 15:43Speaker 1: throng of matting matrons, bears the bride along, wandering through
- 15:48Speaker 1: the woods and wilds and devious ways, And with these
- 15:52Speaker 1: arts the trojan match delays. She feigned the rights of Bacchus,
- 15:57Speaker 1: cried aloud, and to the buxom god, the virgin vowed,
- 16:04Speaker 1: evvoi o Bacchus. Thus began the song, and Evoi answered
- 16:11Speaker 1: all the female throng, Oh virgin worthy thee alone? She cried,
- 16:16Speaker 1: Oh worthy thee alone? The crew replied, for thee. She
- 16:20Speaker 1: feeds her hair. She leads thy dance, and with thy
- 16:24Speaker 1: winding ivy wreathes her lance. Like fury sees the rest
- 16:29Speaker 1: the progress known. All seek the mountains and forsake the town.
- 16:34Speaker 1: All clad in skins of beasts, the javelin bear, give
- 16:38Speaker 1: to the wanton winds their flowing hair, and shrieks and
- 16:40Speaker 1: shoutings wren the suffering air. The queen, herself, inspired with
- 16:44Speaker 1: rage divine shook high up above her head a flaming pine,
- 16:49Speaker 1: then rolled her haggard eyes around the throng and sung
- 16:52Speaker 1: on internests name the nuptial song, ye o ye Elacian dames,
- 16:59Speaker 1: if any here, hold your unhappy queen Amata, Dear, if
- 17:04Speaker 1: there be here, she said, who dare maintain my right
- 17:09Speaker 1: nor think the name of Mother vain? Unbind your filets,
- 17:13Speaker 1: loose your flowing hair and orgies and nocturnal rights prepare.
- 17:19Speaker 1: End of Book seven, Part one, Book seven Juno served
- 17:25Speaker 1: by a fury, Part two Amata's breast. The fury thus
- 17:30Speaker 1: invades and fires with rage amid the Sylvan shades. Then,
- 17:37Speaker 1: when she found her venom spread so far the royal
- 17:40Speaker 1: house embroiled in civil war, raised on her dusky wings,
- 17:45Speaker 1: she cleaves the skies and seeks the palace where young
- 17:48Speaker 1: Turnus lies. His town, as Fame reports, was built of
- 17:53Speaker 1: old by Danae, pregnant with almighty gold, who fled her
- 17:59Speaker 1: father's rage, and with a train of following argives through
- 18:04Speaker 1: the stormy main, driven by the southern blasts, was fated
- 18:09Speaker 1: here to rain twas Ardua once now Ardea's name it bears,
- 18:17Speaker 1: once a fair city, now consumed with years. Here in
- 18:22Speaker 1: his lofty palace, turnus lay betwixt the confines of the
- 18:28Speaker 1: night and to day, secure in sleep. The fury laid
- 18:33Speaker 1: aside her looks and limbs, and with new methods, tried
- 18:37Speaker 1: the foulness of the infernal form to hide. Propped on
- 18:41Speaker 1: a staff, she takes a trembling mien. Her face is furrowed,
- 18:47Speaker 1: and her front obscene, deep dented wrinkles on her cheeks,
- 18:51Speaker 1: she draws. Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Her hoary hair with holy philets bound her temples with
- 19:03Speaker 1: an olive wreath, are crowned Old Kalibi, who kept the
- 19:09Speaker 1: sacred fane of Juno. Now she seemed, and thus began
- 19:14Speaker 1: appearing in a dream to rouse the careless man sheltern
- 19:19Speaker 1: as then such endless toils sustain in fighting fields and
- 19:23Speaker 1: conquered towns in vain. When for a trojan head to
- 19:28Speaker 1: wear the prize usurp thy crown, enjoy thy victories, the
- 19:35Speaker 1: bride and scepter which thy blood has bought the king,
- 19:38Speaker 1: Transfers and foreign heirs are sought. Go now, deluded man,
- 19:45Speaker 1: and seek again new toils, new dangers on the dusty plain.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Repel the Tuscan foes. There city sees, protect the relations
- 19:59Speaker 1: in luxuryurious ease this dream all powerful Juno's sins. I
- 20:06Speaker 1: bear her mighty mandates and her words. You hear, haste,
- 20:12Speaker 1: arm your ardeans, issue to the plain with fate to friend.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Assault the Trojan train their thoughtless chiefs, their painted ships
- 20:22Speaker 1: that lie in Tiber's mouth. With fire and sword. Destroy
- 20:27Speaker 1: the Latian king unless he shall submit, own his old
- 20:31Speaker 1: promise and his new forget. Let him in arms, Thou
- 20:38Speaker 1: power of turnus, prove and learn to fear whom he
- 20:42Speaker 1: disdains to love, For such is Heaven's command. The youthful prince,
- 20:47Speaker 1: with scorn, replied and made this bold defense. You tell me, mother,
- 20:52Speaker 1: what I knew before the Phrygian fleet is landed on
- 20:56Speaker 1: the shore. I neither fear nor will provoke the war.
- 21:00Speaker 1: My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. But time has
- 21:04Speaker 1: made you dote and vainly tell of arms imagin'd in
- 21:08Speaker 1: your lonely cell. Go be the temple in the God's
- 21:13Speaker 1: your care, permit to men the thought of peace and war.
- 21:17Speaker 1: These haughty words Alecto's rage provoke and frighted turnus trembled.
- 21:22Speaker 1: As she spoke, her eyes grow stiffened, and with sulfur burn,
- 21:28Speaker 1: her hideous looks and hellish form return her curling snakes,
- 21:34Speaker 1: with hissings, fill the place and open all the furies
- 21:37Speaker 1: of her face. Then, darting fire from her malignant eyes,
- 21:42Speaker 1: she cast him backward as he strove to rise, and
- 21:47Speaker 1: lingering sought to frame some new replies. High on her head,
- 21:52Speaker 1: she rears two twisted snakes, her chains she rattles, and
- 21:57Speaker 1: her whip she shakes, and churning bloody foam. Thus loudly speaks,
- 22:04Speaker 1: behold whom time has made to dote and tell of
- 22:08Speaker 1: arms imagin'd in her lonely cell. Behold the Fate's infernal minister, war, death,
- 22:15Speaker 1: destruction in my hand I bear. Thus, having said, her
- 22:20Speaker 1: smoldering torch, impressed with her full force, she plunged into
- 22:25Speaker 1: his breast aghast he waked in, starting from his bed,
- 22:31Speaker 1: cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'er spread arms arms.
- 22:37Speaker 1: He cries, my sword and shield prepare. He breathes defiance,
- 22:43Speaker 1: blood and mortal war. So when with crackling flames a
- 22:48Speaker 1: cauldron fries the bubbling waters from the bottom rise above
- 22:53Speaker 1: the brims, they force their fiery way. Black vapors climb
- 22:58Speaker 1: aloft and cloud the day the peace polluted. Thus a
- 23:02Speaker 1: chosen band, he first commissions to the Latian land in
- 23:07Speaker 1: threatening embassy, then raised the rest to meet in arms
- 23:12Speaker 1: the intruding Trojan guest to force the foes from the
- 23:17Speaker 1: Lavinian shore and Italy's endangered peace, restore himself alone an
- 23:23Speaker 1: equal match. He boasts to fight the Phrygian and Alsonian hosts.
- 23:31Speaker 1: The gods invoked the Rutulli prepare their arms and warn
- 23:36Speaker 1: each other to the war. His beauty, these and those
- 23:42Speaker 1: his blooming age, the rest, his house, and his own
- 23:46Speaker 1: fame engage, while Turnus urges, thus his enterprise the Stygian
- 23:52Speaker 1: fury to the Trojans, flies new frauds, invents and takes
- 23:57Speaker 1: a steepy stand which overlooks the vale with wide command,
- 24:04Speaker 1: where Ferris Ganius and his youthful train with horns and hounds,
- 24:08Speaker 1: a hunting match ordain and pitch their toils around the
- 24:12Speaker 1: shady plain. The fury fires the pack, they snuff, they
- 24:19Speaker 1: vent and feed their hungry nostrils with the scent twas
- 24:23Speaker 1: of a well grown stag, whose antlers rise high o'er
- 24:27Speaker 1: his front. His beams invade the skies from this light cause.
- 24:33Speaker 1: The infernal maid prepares the country churls to mischief, hate,
- 24:38Speaker 1: and wars the stately beast. The two teryd eye bread
- 24:42Speaker 1: snatched from his dams, and the tame youngling fed their
- 24:47Speaker 1: father Tyreus, did his fodder, bring Tyreus, chief ranger to
- 24:53Speaker 1: the Latian king. Their sister Sylvia cherished with her care
- 24:58Speaker 1: the little wanton, and did wreaths, prepare to hang his
- 25:02Speaker 1: budding horns with ribbons, tied his tender neck, and combed
- 25:07Speaker 1: his silken hide, and bathed his body. Patient of command.
- 25:13Speaker 1: In time he grew, and growing used to hand. He
- 25:17Speaker 1: waited at his master's board for food, then sought his
- 25:21Speaker 1: salvage kindred in the wood where, grazing all the day.
- 25:26Speaker 1: At night he came to his known lodgings and his
- 25:30Speaker 1: country dame. This household beast that used the woodland grounds
- 25:36Speaker 1: was viewed at first by the young hero's hounds. As
- 25:40Speaker 1: down the stream he swam to seek retreat in the
- 25:43Speaker 1: cool waters and to quench his heat. Ascanius, young and
- 25:48Speaker 1: eager of his game, soon bid his bow, uncertain in
- 25:52Speaker 1: his aim, but the dire fiend the fatal arrow guides,
- 25:58Speaker 1: which pierced his bowels through his panting sides. The bleeding
- 26:03Speaker 1: creature issues from the floods, possessed with fear, and seeks
- 26:07Speaker 1: his known abodes, his old familiar hearth and household gods.
- 26:13Speaker 1: He falls. He fills the house with heavy groans, implores
- 26:18Speaker 1: their pity and his pain bemoans. Young Sylvia, beats her
- 26:23Speaker 1: breast and cries aloud for succor. From the clownish neighborhood.
- 26:27Speaker 1: The Churl's as symbol for the fiend, who lay in
- 26:32Speaker 1: the close woody covert urged their way, one with a brand,
- 26:36Speaker 1: yet burning from the flame, armed with a knotty club,
- 26:40Speaker 1: another came whate'er they catch or find. Without their care,
- 26:46Speaker 1: their fury makes an instrument of war. Tyreus, the foster
- 26:52Speaker 1: father of the beast, then clinched a hatchet in his
- 26:55Speaker 1: horny fist, but held his hand from the descending stroke,
- 27:00Speaker 1: and left his wedge within the cloven oak to whet
- 27:03Speaker 1: their courage and their rage provoke. And now the goddess,
- 27:08Speaker 1: exercised in ill, who watched an hour to work her
- 27:12Speaker 1: impious will, ascends the roof, and to her crooked horn,
- 27:17Speaker 1: such as was then by Latian shepherds, born, adds all
- 27:21Speaker 1: her breath. The rocks and woods around, and mountains tremble
- 27:26Speaker 1: at the infernal sound. The sacred lake of Trivia from afar,
- 27:32Speaker 1: the viline fountains and the sulfurious gnar shake at the
- 27:38Speaker 1: baleful blast the signal of the war. Young mothers wildly
- 27:43Speaker 1: stare with fear possessed, and strain their helpless infants to
- 27:48Speaker 1: their breast. The clowns, a boisterous, rude, ungoverned crew, with
- 27:53Speaker 1: furious haste to the loud summons flew The powers of
- 27:59Speaker 1: Troy then issue on the plain with fresh recruits. Their
- 28:03Speaker 1: youthful chief sustain not theirs a raw and unexperienced train,
- 28:09Speaker 1: but a firm body of embattled men. At first, while
- 28:13Speaker 1: fortune favored neither side, the fight with clubs and burning
- 28:17Speaker 1: brands was tried, But now both parties reinforced. The fields
- 28:23Speaker 1: are bright with flaming swords and brazen shields. A shining
- 28:27Speaker 1: harvest either host displays and shoots against the sun with
- 28:32Speaker 1: equal rays. Thus, when a black browed gust begins to rise,
- 28:38Speaker 1: white foam at first on the curled ocean fries, then
- 28:43Speaker 1: roars the main, the billows mount the skies, till by
- 28:48Speaker 1: the fury of the storm, full blown, the muddy bottom
- 28:52Speaker 1: o'er the clouds is thrown first almon falls Old Tyreus,
- 28:59Speaker 1: eldest care pierced with an arrow from the distant war.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Fixed in his throat, the flying weapons stood and stopped
- 29:07Speaker 1: his breath and drank his vital blood. Huge heaps of
- 29:11Speaker 1: slain around the body rise among the rest, the rich gallicislies.
- 29:18Speaker 1: A good old man, while peace he preached in vain
- 29:22Speaker 1: amidst the madness of the unruly train five herds, five
- 29:29Speaker 1: bleating flocks. His pastures filled his lands, a hundred yoke
- 29:33Speaker 1: of oxen tilled. Thus, while in equal scales their fortune stood,
- 29:40Speaker 1: the fury bathed them in each other's blood. Then, having
- 29:45Speaker 1: fixed the fight, exulting flies and bears, fulfilled her promise
- 29:50Speaker 1: to the skies, to Juno. Thus she speaks, behold it
- 29:56Speaker 1: is done. The blood already drawn, the war begun, the
- 30:01Speaker 1: discord is complete. Nor can they cease the dire debate,
- 30:06Speaker 1: nor you command the peace now, since fallation and the
- 30:10Speaker 1: Trojan brood have tasted vengeance and the sweets of blood, speak,
- 30:17Speaker 1: and my power shall add this office more. The neighboring
- 30:21Speaker 1: nations of the Ausonian shore shall hear the dreadful rumor
- 30:26Speaker 1: from Afar of armed invasion and embrace the war. Then, Juno,
- 30:33Speaker 1: Thus the grateful work is done. The seeds of discord sowed,
- 30:40Speaker 1: the war begun. Frauds, fears, and fury have possessed the
- 30:44Speaker 1: state and fixed the causes of a lasting hate, a
- 30:49Speaker 1: bloody hymen. Shall the alliance join betwixt the Trojan and
- 30:55Speaker 1: Ausonian line, But thou, with speed to night and hell repair,
- 31:02Speaker 1: For not the gods nor angry Jove will bear thy
- 31:06Speaker 1: lawless wandering walks in upper air. Leave what remains to me,
- 31:11Speaker 1: Saturnius said the sullen fiend, her sounding wings displayed, unwilling,
- 31:18Speaker 1: left the light and sought the nether shade. In midst
- 31:22Speaker 1: of Italy, well known to fame, there lies a lake.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Amsanctus is the name below the lofty mounts on either side,
- 31:31Speaker 1: thick forests, the forbidden entrance hide full in the center
- 31:36Speaker 1: of the sacred wood. An arm arises of the Stygian flood, which,
- 31:41Speaker 1: breaking from beneath with bellowing sound, whirls the black waves
- 31:46Speaker 1: in rattling stones around. Hear Pluto pants for breath from
- 31:52Speaker 1: out his cell and opens wide the grinning jaws of
- 31:56Speaker 1: hell to this infernal lake. The fury lies here, hides
- 32:01Speaker 1: her hated head, and frees the laboring skies. Saturnian Juno,
- 32:06Speaker 1: now with double care, attends the fatal process of the war.
- 32:11Speaker 1: The clowns, returned from battle bare the slain, implore the
- 32:16Speaker 1: gods and to their king complain. The corpse of Almon
- 32:22Speaker 1: and the rest are shown. Shrieks, clamors, murmurs fill the
- 32:27Speaker 1: frighted town. Ambitious turnus in the press appears, and aggravating crimes,
- 32:34Speaker 1: augments their fears, proclaims his private injuries aloud, a solemn
- 32:40Speaker 1: promise made and disavowed. A foreign son is sought, and
- 32:46Speaker 1: a mixed mongrel brood. Then they whose mothers, frantic with
- 32:51Speaker 1: their fear in woods and wiles, the flags of Bacchus
- 32:56Speaker 1: bear and lead. His dances with disheveled hair increased the
- 33:00Speaker 1: clamor and the war demand. Such was Amata's interest in
- 33:06Speaker 1: the land, against the public sanctions of the peace, against
- 33:11Speaker 1: all omens of their ill success. With fates averse the
- 33:16Speaker 1: route in arms resort to force their monarch and insult
- 33:21Speaker 1: the court. But like a rock unmoved, a rock that
- 33:27Speaker 1: braves the raging tempest and the rising waves. Propped on himself,
- 33:32Speaker 1: he stands, his solid sides wash off the sea weeds
- 33:38Speaker 1: and the sounding tides. So stood the pious prince unmoved,
- 33:44Speaker 1: and long sustained the madness of the noisy throng. But
- 33:50Speaker 1: when he found that Juno's power prevailed and all the
- 33:54Speaker 1: methods of cool council failed, he calls the gods to
- 33:59Speaker 1: witness their offense, disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Hurried
- 34:07Speaker 1: by fate, he cries and borne before a furious wind.
- 34:11Speaker 1: We have the faithful shore. Oh more than mad men,
- 34:16Speaker 1: You yourself shall bear the guilt of blood and sacrilegious war.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Thou turnest, shalt atone it by thy fate, and pray
- 34:26Speaker 1: to Heaven for peace. But pray too late for me.
- 34:32Speaker 1: My stormy voyage at an end, I to the port
- 34:36Speaker 1: of death securely tend the funeral pomp, which to your
- 34:41Speaker 1: kings you pay, is all I want and all you
- 34:45Speaker 1: take away. He said no more, but in his walls confined,
- 34:51Speaker 1: shut out the woes which he too well divined, Nor
- 34:55Speaker 1: with the rising storm, would vainly strive, but left the
- 34:59Speaker 1: helm and let the vessel drive. A solemn custom was
- 35:05Speaker 1: observed of old, which Latiam held, and now the Romans
- 35:10Speaker 1: hold their standard. When in fighting fields they rear against
- 35:15Speaker 1: the fierce Hyrcadians, or declare the Scythian, Indian or Arabian war,
- 35:21Speaker 1: or from the boasting Parthians would regain their eagles lost
- 35:25Speaker 1: in Karhai's bloody plain, two gates of steel, the name
- 35:31Speaker 1: of Mars, they bear, and still are worshiped with religious fear.
- 35:37Speaker 1: Before his temples stand the dire abode, and the feared
- 35:42Speaker 1: issues of the furious God are fenced with brazen bolts.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Without the gates, the wary guardian Janus doubly waits. Then,
- 35:53Speaker 1: when the sacred Senate votes the wars, the Roman consul
- 35:56Speaker 1: their decree declares, and in his robes the sounding gates
- 36:01Speaker 1: unbars the youth in military shouts arise and the loud
- 36:07Speaker 1: trumpets break the yielding skies. These rites of old by
- 36:12Speaker 1: sovereign princes used were the King's office. But the king refused,
- 36:19Speaker 1: deaf to their cries. Nor would the gates unbar of
- 36:23Speaker 1: sacred peace are loose the imprisoned war but hid his
- 36:27Speaker 1: head and safe from loud alarms, abhorred the wicked ministry
- 36:34Speaker 1: of arms. Then Heaven's imperious queen shot down from high
- 36:38Speaker 1: at her approach, the brazen hinges fly, the gates are
- 36:42Speaker 1: forced in every falling bar, and like a tempest issues
- 36:48Speaker 1: out the war. The peaceful cities of Thausonian Shore, lulled
- 36:54Speaker 1: in their ease and undisturbed before, are all on fire.
- 36:59Speaker 1: And so some, with studious care their restive steeds in
- 37:04Speaker 1: sandy plains, prepare some their soft limbs in painful marches, try,
- 37:09Speaker 1: and war is all their wish and arms. The general cry,
- 37:15Speaker 1: part scour the rusty shields with seam, and part new
- 37:19Speaker 1: grind the blunted axe, and to point the dart. With
- 37:24Speaker 1: joy they view the waving ensigns fly, and here the
- 37:27Speaker 1: trumpet's clangor pierce the sky. Five cities forge their arms,
- 37:34Speaker 1: the Atinian powers, and Temni Tiber with her lofty towers, Ardea,
- 37:40Speaker 1: the Proud, the Crustumerian town. All these of old were
- 37:44Speaker 1: places of renown. Some hammer helmets for the fighting field,
- 37:50Speaker 1: Some twine young sallows to support the shield. The crosslets
- 37:54Speaker 1: some and some the quishes mold with silver plated and
- 37:58Speaker 1: with ductile gold. The rustic honors of the scythe and
- 38:02Speaker 1: share give place to swords and plumes. The pride of war.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Old faucions are new tempered in the fires. The sounding
- 38:11Speaker 1: trumpet every soul inspires. The word is given with eager speed.
- 38:15Speaker 1: They laced the shining head piece and the shield embrace.
- 38:20Speaker 1: The neighing steeds are to the chariot tide. The trusty
- 38:24Speaker 1: weapon sits on every side. And now the mighty labor
- 38:28Speaker 1: is begun. Ye muses, open all your helicon, seeing you
- 38:35Speaker 1: the chiefs that swayed the Ausonian land, their arms and
- 38:40Speaker 1: armies under their command. What warriors in our ancient climb
- 38:44Speaker 1: were bred? What soldiers followed, and what heroes led.
- 38:50Speaker 2: For?
- 38:51Speaker 1: Well you know and can record alone what fame to
- 38:53Speaker 1: future times conveys. But darkly down Mizenius first appeared upon
- 38:59Speaker 1: the plain, scorn sate, upon his brows and sour disdain,
- 39:05Speaker 1: defying earth, and heaven Etruria lost, he brings to turnus
- 39:10Speaker 1: aid his baffled host. The charming louses, full of youthful fire,
- 39:17Speaker 1: rode in the rank, and next his sullen sire to turnus,
- 39:21Speaker 1: only second in the grace of manly mien and features
- 39:25Speaker 1: of the face, A skillful horseman and a huntsman bred
- 39:29Speaker 1: with fates averse a thousand men, he led his sire,
- 39:34Speaker 1: unworthy of so brave a son himself well worthy of
- 39:38Speaker 1: a happier throne. Next, Aventinus drives his chariot round the
- 39:43Speaker 1: Latian plains with palms and laurels. Crowned proud of his steeds,
- 39:49Speaker 1: he smokes along the field. His father's hydra fills his
- 39:54Speaker 1: ample shield. A hundred serpents hiss about the brims. The
- 39:59Speaker 1: son of Hercules, he justly seems, by his broad shoulders
- 40:03Speaker 1: and gigantic limbs, of heavenly part and part of earthly blood,
- 40:10Speaker 1: a mortal woman mixing with a god for strong alcides.
- 40:14Speaker 1: After he had slain the triple, Geryon drove from conquered
- 40:18Speaker 1: Spain his captive herds, and thence in triumph, led on
- 40:22Speaker 1: Tuscan Tiber's flowery banks. They fed, then on Mount Aventine,
- 40:28Speaker 1: the son of Jove, the priestess Rhea found and forced
- 40:32Speaker 1: to love for arms his men long piles in javelin's bore,
- 40:37Speaker 1: and poles with pointed steel. Their foes in battle gore
- 40:42Speaker 1: like Hercules himself. His son appears in salvage pomp a
- 40:47Speaker 1: lion's head. He wears about his shoulders, hangs the shaggy skin,
- 40:53Speaker 1: the teeth and gaping jaws severely grinned. Thus like the
- 40:58Speaker 1: god his father, homely dressed, he strides into the hall
- 41:04Speaker 1: a horrid guest. Then two twin brothers from the fair
- 41:08Speaker 1: Tiber came, which from their brother Tiburs took the name
- 41:13Speaker 1: Fierce Chorus and Catillus, void of fear. Armed argive horse,
- 41:19Speaker 1: they led, and in the front appear like cloud born centaurs.
- 41:26Speaker 1: From the mountain's height, with rapid course descending to the fight,
- 41:30Speaker 1: they rush along the rattling woods give way, the branches
- 41:35Speaker 1: bent before their sweepy sway. Nor was Prinsti's founder wanting there,
- 41:40Speaker 1: whom Fame reports. The son of Molsabet, found in the
- 41:45Speaker 1: fire and fostered in the plains, a shepherd and a
- 41:48Speaker 1: king at once, he reigns and leads to Ternus's aid,
- 41:52Speaker 1: his country swains his own. Prynsti sends a chosen band
- 41:58Speaker 1: with those who plows. Saturni is gabine land, besides the
- 42:02Speaker 1: succor which cold Anian yields, the rocks of Hernicus and
- 42:07Speaker 1: the dewy fields Anannia fat and father Amessini a numerous route,
- 42:14Speaker 1: but all of naked men, nor arms they wear, nor
- 42:18Speaker 1: swords and bucklers wield, nor drive the chariot through the
- 42:22Speaker 1: dusty field, but whirled from leathern slings. Huge balls of
- 42:27Speaker 1: lead and spoils of yellow wolves adorn their head. Their
- 42:33Speaker 1: left foot naked when they march to fight, but in
- 42:37Speaker 1: a bull's raw hide they sheathe their right. Massapus, next
- 42:42Speaker 1: great Neptune, was his sire, secure of steel and fated
- 42:46Speaker 1: from the fire in pomp appears and with his ardor
- 42:51Speaker 1: warms a heartless train. Unexercised in arms, the Uphealiscans heat
- 42:58Speaker 1: to battle brings, and those who live where Lake Chiminia
- 43:01Speaker 1: springs and where Feronias grove in temple stands, who till
- 43:06Speaker 1: Fescinian are Flavinian lands. All these in order march and
- 43:11Speaker 1: marching sing the warlike actions of their sea born king
- 43:16Speaker 1: like a long team of snowy swans on high, which
- 43:21Speaker 1: clap their wings and cleave the liquid sky. When homeward
- 43:24Speaker 1: from their watery pastures born, they sing, and Asia's lakes
- 43:29Speaker 1: their notes return. Not one who heard their music from
- 43:33Speaker 1: Afar would think these troops an army trained to war,
- 43:38Speaker 1: but flocks of fowl, that when the tempests roar with
- 43:42Speaker 1: their hoarse gabbling, seek the silent shore. Then Clausus came,
- 43:47Speaker 1: who led a numerous band of troops embodied from the
- 43:50Speaker 1: sabine land, and in himself alone an army brought twas
- 43:55Speaker 1: he the noble Claudian race Begod, the Claudian race ordained
- 44:00Speaker 1: in times to come to share the greatness of Imperial Rome.
- 44:05Speaker 1: He led the curies forth of old renown Mutuscans from
- 44:09Speaker 1: their olive bearing town and all the Erytrian powers, besides
- 44:15Speaker 1: a band that followed from Vilinum's dewy land, and Amitaranian
- 44:20Speaker 1: troops of mighty fame and mountaineers that from Severest came,
- 44:25Speaker 1: and from the craggy cliffs of Tetrica, and those where
- 44:28Speaker 1: Yellow tiber takes his way, and where Himela's wanton waters play.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Casparius sends her arms, and with those that lie by
- 44:37Speaker 1: faberis and fruitful foruli. The warlike aids of Horta next appear,
- 44:43Speaker 1: and the cold Nursians come to close the rear, mixed
- 44:47Speaker 1: with the natives born of Latine blood, whom Alia washes
- 44:51Speaker 1: with her fatal flood. Not thicker billows beat the Libyan
- 44:55Speaker 1: main when pale orion sets in wintry rain, nor thicker
- 44:59Speaker 1: harvestts on rich hermus rise, nor Lysian fields. When Phoebus
- 45:04Speaker 1: burns the skies. Then stand these troops, their bucklers ring
- 45:09Speaker 1: around their trampling, turns the turf and shakes the solid
- 45:12Speaker 1: ground high in his chariot. Then Hallisus came a foe
- 45:18Speaker 1: by birth de Troy's unhappy name from Agamemnon, born to
- 45:23Speaker 1: turnus aid a thousand men, the youthful hero led who
- 45:27Speaker 1: till the massic soil for wine, renowned and fierce Auruncans
- 45:32Speaker 1: from their hilly ground, and those who live by Cidinichian
- 45:37Speaker 1: shores and wherewith shoally fords Fulturnus roars cales in Osca's
- 45:44Speaker 1: old inhabitants in rough Saticulans inured to wants light, Demi
- 45:49Speaker 1: lances from Afar they throw, fastened with leathern thongs to
- 45:55Speaker 1: gall the foe, short crooked swords. In closer fight they
- 45:59Speaker 1: wear and on their warding arm light buckler's bare nor
- 46:05Speaker 1: obelis shalt thou be left unsung from nymph Simethus and
- 46:09Speaker 1: old Telon Sprung, who then in Tellaboencapri reigned. But that
- 46:15Speaker 1: short Ale the ambitious youth disdained, and o'er Campania stretched
- 46:20Speaker 1: his ample sway where swelling Sarnus seeks the Tyrene Sea
- 46:26Speaker 1: or batulum, and where Abella sees from her high towers
- 46:30Speaker 1: the harvest of her trees. And these as was the
- 46:35Speaker 1: Teuton use of old wheeled brazen's swords, and brazen bucklers
- 46:40Speaker 1: hold sling weighty stones. When from afar they fight, their
- 46:46Speaker 1: casks are cork, a covering thickened light. Next these in rank,
- 46:52Speaker 1: the warlike Ufans went and led the mountain troops that
- 46:56Speaker 1: Nurseas sent the rude Equicolai his rule obeyed. Hunting their
- 47:02Speaker 1: sport and plundering was their trade in arms. They plowed
- 47:08Speaker 1: to battle, still prepared. Their soil was barren, and their
- 47:12Speaker 1: hearts were hard. Umbro the priest the proud Marubians, led
- 47:18Speaker 1: by King Archippus sent to Turnus's aid and peaceful olives
- 47:22Speaker 1: crowned his hoary head, his wand and holy words. The
- 47:27Speaker 1: viper's rage and envenomed wounds of serpents could assuage he
- 47:33Speaker 1: when he pleased, with powerful juice to steep their temples,
- 47:37Speaker 1: shut their eyes in pleasing sleep, But vain were Marsian
- 47:41Speaker 1: herbs and magic are to cure the wound given by
- 47:44Speaker 1: the Dardan dart. Yet his untimely fate Vangeesian woods in
- 47:50Speaker 1: sighs remurmured to the Fusine floods. The son of famed Hippolytus,
- 47:56Speaker 1: was there famed as his sire and as his mother,
- 48:00Speaker 1: whom in Egerian Grove's arisha bore and nursed his youth
- 48:05Speaker 1: along the marshy shore, where Great Diana's peaceful altar's flame
- 48:09Speaker 1: in fruitful fields and vibius was his name. Hippolytus, as
- 48:15Speaker 1: old records have said, was by his stepdam sought to
- 48:18Speaker 1: share her bed, but when no female arts his mind
- 48:22Speaker 1: could move, she turned to furious hate. Her impious love
- 48:27Speaker 1: torn by wild horses on the sandy shore. Another's crimes,
- 48:31Speaker 1: the unhappy hunter bore, glutting his father's eyes with guiltless gore,
- 48:38Speaker 1: but chased Diana, who his death deplored with Esculapian herbs.
- 48:42Speaker 1: His life restored. Then Jove, who saw from high with
- 48:46Speaker 1: just disdain the dead, inspired with vital breath, again struck
- 48:50Speaker 1: to the center with his flaming dart, the unhappy founder
- 48:54Speaker 1: of the godlike art. But Trivia kept in secret shades
- 48:59Speaker 1: alone her care Hippolytus to fate unknown and called him
- 49:04Speaker 1: Vibius in the Aegyian grove, where then he lived, obscure
- 49:08Speaker 1: but safe from Jove. For this from Trivia's temple and
- 49:13Speaker 1: her wood are coursers driven who shed their master's blood.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Affrighted by the monsters of the flood. His son, the
- 49:21Speaker 1: second Vibius, yet retained his father's art and warrior's steeds.
- 49:26Speaker 1: He reigned amid the troops, and like the leading god
- 49:31Speaker 1: high o'er the rest in arms, the graceful Ternus rode
- 49:35Speaker 1: a triple of plumes, his crest adorn'd on which, with
- 49:39Speaker 1: belching flames Chimaira burned. The more the kindled combat rises higher,
- 49:46Speaker 1: the more with fury burns the blazing fire fair Io
- 49:51Speaker 1: graced his shield. But Io now with horns exalted stands
- 49:57Speaker 1: and seems to low a noble charge, her keeper by
- 50:02Speaker 1: her side to watch her walks, his hundred eyes applied,
- 50:08Speaker 1: and on the brims her sire, the watery god rolled
- 50:12Speaker 1: from a silver urn, his crystal flood. A cloud of
- 50:18Speaker 1: foot succeeds and fills the fields with swords and pointed
- 50:22Speaker 1: spears and clattering shields, of Argives and of old Cyrcanian bands,
- 50:28Speaker 1: and those who plow the rich Rutulian lands, Auruncan youth
- 50:32Speaker 1: and those Cecrana yields, and the proud Labecans with painted shields,
- 50:38Speaker 1: in those who near numissioned streams reside in those whom
- 50:42Speaker 1: Tiber's holy forests hide or circes hills from the mainland divide,
- 50:49Speaker 1: where Ufhain's glides along the lowly lands, or the blackwater
- 50:53Speaker 1: of Pomptina stands last from the Vulcan's fair. Camilla came
- 50:59Speaker 1: in and let her warlike troops. A warrior dame, unbred
- 51:03Speaker 1: to spinning in the loom, unskilled, she chose the nobler
- 51:07Speaker 1: palace of the field, mixed with the first. The fierce
- 51:11Speaker 1: virago fought sustain the toils of arms. The danger sought
- 51:17Speaker 1: outstrip the winds in speed upon the plain, flew o'er
- 51:20Speaker 1: the fields, nor hurt the bearded grain. She swept the seas,
- 51:25Speaker 1: and as she skimmed along her flying feet unbathed on billows,
- 51:29Speaker 1: hung men, boys and women, stupid with surprise where ere
- 51:35Speaker 1: she passes, fix their wondering eyes. Longing they look, and
- 51:40Speaker 1: gaping at the sight, devour her oar and oar with
- 51:43Speaker 1: vast delight. Her purple habit sits with such a grace
- 51:48Speaker 1: on her smooth shoulders, and so suits her face. Her head,
- 51:52Speaker 1: with ringlets of her hair, is crowned, and in a
- 51:55Speaker 1: golden call, the curls are bound. She shakes her myrtle javelin,
- 52:00Speaker 1: and behind her liten quiver dances in the wind end
- 52:06Speaker 1: of Book seven.
- 52:07Speaker 3: Book eight Arcadian Allies, Part one, when Turnus had assembled
- 52:15Speaker 3: all his powers, his standard planted on lorentzium stowers, When
- 52:20Speaker 3: now the springly trumpet from Afar had given the signal
- 52:24Speaker 3: of approaching, bar had roused the neighing steeds to score
- 52:29Speaker 3: the fields, while the fierce riders clattered on their shields,
- 52:33Speaker 3: trembling with rage. The Lattian youth prepare to join the Allies,
- 52:38Speaker 3: and headlong rush to wire. Fierce Ufens and Messapus led
- 52:43Speaker 3: the crowd with bold Mescentius, who blasphemed aloud. These through
- 52:48Speaker 3: the country took their wasteful course the fields to forage
- 52:53Speaker 3: and to gather force. Then Venulus to Diomede they send
- 52:58Speaker 3: to beg his aid Asia, to defend, declare the common danger,
- 53:03Speaker 3: and inform the Grecian leader of the growing storm. Eneas
- 53:08Speaker 3: landed on the Latian coast with banished gods and with
- 53:13Speaker 3: a baffled host. Yet now aspired to conquest of the state,
- 53:18Speaker 3: and claimed the title from the gods and fate. What
- 53:22Speaker 3: numerous nations in his quarrel came, and how they spread
- 53:26Speaker 3: his formidable name, what he designed? What mischief might arise
- 53:31Speaker 3: if fortune favored his first enterprise was left for him
- 53:36Speaker 3: to weigh whose equal fears and common interest was involved
- 53:41Speaker 3: in theirs. While Turnus and the allies thus urged the war,
- 53:45Speaker 3: the Troyon, floating in a flood of care, beholds the
- 53:49Speaker 3: tempest which his foes prepare this way, and that he
- 53:54Speaker 3: turns his anxious mind, thinks and rejects the councils he designed,
- 54:00Speaker 3: floors himself in vain in every part and gives no
- 54:04Speaker 3: rest to his distracted heart. So when the sun by
- 54:08Speaker 3: day or moon by night strike on the polished brass,
- 54:12Speaker 3: that trembling light, the glittering species here and there divide
- 54:17Speaker 3: and cast their dubious beams from side to side, now
- 54:21Speaker 3: on the walls, now on the pavement play, and to
- 54:24Speaker 3: the ceiling flash the glaring day. It was night and
- 54:29Speaker 3: wheary nature, lull sleep, the birds of air and fishes
- 54:33Speaker 3: of the deep, and beasts and mortal men. The troy
- 54:36Speaker 3: and Chief was laid on Tiber's bank, oppressed with grief
- 54:41Speaker 3: and found in silent slumber late relief. Then through the
- 54:46Speaker 3: shadows of the poplar wood arose the father of the
- 54:50Speaker 3: Roman flood. An arserrobe was over his body spread a
- 54:55Speaker 3: wreath of shady raids adorned his head. Thus manifesto side
- 55:00Speaker 3: the god appeared, and with these pleasing words his sorrow cheered,
- 55:05Speaker 3: undoubted offspring of a theoral race O long expected in
- 55:10Speaker 3: this promised place. Who throw the foes hast borne, thy
- 55:15Speaker 3: banished gods, restore them to their hearts and old abodes.
- 55:21Speaker 3: This is thy happy home, the clime where Fate ordains
- 55:25Speaker 3: thee to restore the Troyan state, fear not. The war
- 55:30Speaker 3: shall end in lasting peace, and all the rage of
- 55:34Speaker 3: haughty Junus sees, and that this nightly vision may not
- 55:38Speaker 3: seem the effect of fancy or an idle dream, as
- 55:43Speaker 3: so beneath an oak shall lie along all white herself
- 55:47Speaker 3: and white thirty young. When thirty rolling years have run
- 55:52Speaker 3: the race, Thy son Ascarnius, on this empty space shall
- 55:57Speaker 3: build a royal town of lasting fame, which from this
- 56:01Speaker 3: omen shall receive the name. Time shall approve the truth
- 56:06Speaker 3: for what remains, and how with sure success, to crown
- 56:10Speaker 3: thy pains with patience. Next attend a banish'd band driven
- 56:16Speaker 3: with evander from the Arcadian land, have planted here and
- 56:21Speaker 3: placed on high their walls their town. The founder Pallantium
- 56:26Speaker 3: calls to read from Pallas, his great grandsire's name, but
- 56:31Speaker 3: the fierce Latzian's old possession claim. With war infesting the
- 56:37Speaker 3: new colony, these make thy friends, and on their aid
- 56:41Speaker 3: rely to thy free passage. I submit my streams, wake
- 56:47Speaker 3: son of Venus from thy pleasing dreams. And when the
- 56:51Speaker 3: setting stars are lost in day, to Junu's power, thy
- 56:55Speaker 3: just devotion pay which sacrifice the wrathful queen apiece her
- 57:01Speaker 3: pride at length shall fall her fury Seas, when thou
- 57:06Speaker 3: return'st victorious from the war, perform thy vows to me
- 57:11Speaker 3: with grateful care. The god am I, whose yell of
- 57:15Speaker 3: water flows around these fields. It fattens as it goes.
- 57:20Speaker 3: Tiber my name among the rolling floods, renowned on earth,
- 57:25Speaker 3: esteemed among the gods. This is my certain seat. In
- 57:29Speaker 3: times to come, my waves shall wash the walls of
- 57:33Speaker 3: mighty Rome. He said, and plunged below. While yet he
- 57:38Speaker 3: spoke his dream aneas and his sleep forsoke. He rose,
- 57:43Speaker 3: and looking up beheld the skies with purple blushing, and
- 57:47Speaker 3: the day arise. The water in his hollow palm he
- 57:51Speaker 3: took from Tiber's flood, and thus their powers bespoke Laurentian nymphs,
- 57:57Speaker 3: by whom the streams are fed. And Father Tiber, in
- 58:01Speaker 3: thy sacred bed, receive aeneas. And from danger, keep whatever found,
- 58:07Speaker 3: whatever wholly deep conceals Thy water stores wherever they rise, and,
- 58:13Speaker 3: bubbling from below, salute the skies, Thou, king of horned floods,
- 58:19Speaker 3: so splendious urn sophaces fatness to the fruitful corn. For
- 58:24Speaker 3: this thy kind compassion of our woes, shall share my
- 58:29Speaker 3: morning song and evening vows. But O be present to
- 58:33Speaker 3: thy people's aid and firm the gracious promise thou hast
- 58:37Speaker 3: made thus, having said to Gallis, from his stores, with care,
- 58:42Speaker 3: he chooses mans and fits with oars. Now on the shore,
- 58:46Speaker 3: the fatal swine is found wondrous to tell she lay
- 58:50Speaker 3: along the ground, her well fed offspring. At her others
- 58:54Speaker 3: hang she white herself and white her thirty young eneas.
- 58:59Speaker 3: Take the mother and her brood, and all on Juneau's
- 59:03Speaker 3: altar are bestowed. The following night and the succeeding day,
- 59:09Speaker 3: from piteous teabers smoothed his watery way, he rolled his
- 59:13Speaker 3: river back, and poised he stood a gentle swelling and
- 59:18Speaker 3: a peaceful flood. The Troyants mount their ships. They put
- 59:23Speaker 3: from shore borne on the waves, and scarcely dip an oar.
- 59:28Speaker 3: Shouts from the land give omen to their course, and
- 59:32Speaker 3: the pitched vessels glide with easy force. The woods and
- 59:37Speaker 3: waters wander at the gleam of shields and painted ships
- 59:41Speaker 3: that stemmed the stream. One summer's night and one whole
- 59:45Speaker 3: day they pass betwixt the green wood shades and cut
- 59:49Speaker 3: the liquid glass. The fiery sun had finished half his
- 59:53Speaker 3: race looked back and doubted in the middle passpace, when
- 59:58Speaker 3: they from far beheld the rising towers, the tops of sheds,
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: and shepherd slowly bars thin as they stood, which then
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: on homely clay now rise in marble from the Roman's way.
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: These cots Evander's kingdom mean and poor. The troy and
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: saw and turned his ships to shore. It was a
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: solemn day the Arcadian states. The king and prince without
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: the city gates then paid their offsprings in a sacred
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: grew to Hercules. The warrior's sun of joe, thick clouds
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: of rolling smoke involved the skies and fat o entrails
- 1:00:41Speaker 3: on his altar fries. But when they saw the ship
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: that stemmed the flood and glittered through the covert of
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: the wood, they rose with fear and left the unfinished
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: feast till dauntless Palace reassured the rest to pay the
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: rites himself without illa a javelin ceased and singly took
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: his way, then gained a rising ground and called from far,
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: resolve me, strangers, whence and what you are your business here?
- 1:01:14Speaker 3: And bring you peace or war? High on the stern
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: eneas he stand and held a branch of olive in
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: his hand, while thus he spoke the frigin's arms you
- 1:01:25Speaker 3: see expelled from Troy, provoked in Italy by Lacian foes,
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: with war unjustly made, at first effinest, then at last
- 1:01:36Speaker 3: betrayed this message bare the Troyans and their chief bring
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: holy peace, and begged the king's relief. Struck with so
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: great a name, and all on fire, the youth replies,
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: whatever you require, your fame exacts upon our shores. Descend
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: a welcome guest, and what you wish a friend? He said,
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: and downward, hasting to the strand, embraced the stranger prince
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: and join'd his hand conducted to the groove. Ene'as broke
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: the silence first, and thus the king bespoke best of
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: the Greeks, to whom, by Fate's command, I bare these
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: peaceful branches in my haarnd undaunted. I proach you thou,
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: I know your birth is Grecian, and your land my
- 1:02:28Speaker 3: foe from Artras Thou, your ancient lineage came, and both
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: the brother kings your kindred claim. Yet myself conscious worth
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: your high renown, your virtue through neither neighb'ring nations blown
- 1:02:46Speaker 3: our father's mingled blood Apaullu's voice have led me hither
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: less my need than choice. Our founder, Dardanus, as fame
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: has sung and Greek knowledge from Electra sprung Electra. From
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: the loins of Atlas, came Atlas, whose head sustains the
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: starry frame. Your sire is Mercury, whom long before on
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: cold Kileen is top fair Maya bore Maya the fair
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: on fame. If we rely was Atlas's daughter who sustains
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: the sky. Thus from one common source our streams divide.
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: Ours is the troyon yours, the Arridian side. Raised by
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: these hopes, I sent no news before, nor asked your leave,
- 1:03:38Speaker 3: nor did your faith implore. But come without a pledge
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: my own ambassador. The same Rutulians, who with arms pursue
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: the Troy and Rays are equal foes to you, our
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: host expelled what farther force can stay the victor troops
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: from universal sway, Then when they stretch their power, a't
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: worth the land, and either see from side to side, command,
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: receive our offered faith and give us thine. Ours is
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: a generous and experienced line. We want no hearts nor
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: bodies for the war in council, cautious, and in fields
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: we dare, he said, And while spoke with piercing eyes,
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: evander view the man with vast surprise, pleased with his action,
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: ravished with his face, then answered briefly with a royal grace,
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: O valiant leader of the trial line, in whom the
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: features of thy father shine. How I recall and kisses,
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: how I see his motions mean and all my friend
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: in thee long though it be, it's fresh within my mind.
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: When pri arm to his sister's court, designed a welcome
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: visit with a friendly stay, and through the Arcadian Kingdom,
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: took his way, and then passed a boy the coloh
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: down began to shade my chin and call me first
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: a man. I saw the shining train with vast delight,
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: and Priam's goodly person pleas'd my sight, but great anchises
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: far about the rest with awful wonder fired my youthful breast.
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: I long'd to join in Friendship's holy bands, our mutual hearts,
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: and plight our mutual hands. I first accosted him, I sued,
- 1:05:38Speaker 3: I sought, and with a loving force to Phineus brought
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: he gave me. When at length constrain'd to go a
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: Lycian quiver and Agnostian bow, a vest embroidered glorious to behold,
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: and two rich bridles, with their bits of gold, which
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: my son's courses in obedient sold the eag you ask,
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: I offer as you write, And when to morrow's sun
- 1:06:04Speaker 3: reveals the light with swift supplies, you shall be sent away.
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: Now celebrate with us this solemn day, whose holy rites
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: admit no long delay. Honor our annual feast, and take
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: your seat with friendly welcome at a homely treat. Thus,
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: having said, the bowls removed for fear, the youths replaced,
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: and soon restor'd the chair on sods of turf. He
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: set the soldiers round a maple thrown raised higher from
- 1:06:38Speaker 3: the ground, received the troy in chief, and o'er the
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: bed a lion's shaggy hide for ornament. They spread. The
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: loaves were serv'd in canisters, the wine in bowls. Their
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: priests renew'd, the rites divine broiled and trails o their
- 1:06:56Speaker 3: flood and beefs continu'd shine. But when the rage of
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: hunger was repressed, thus spoke Evander to his royal guest.
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: These rites, these altars and this feast o king from
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: no vain fears of superstition, spring or blind devotion, or
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: from a blinder chance, or heed it seal or brutal ignorance,
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: but sailed from danger with a grateful sense. The labors
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: of a god wear recompense. See from afar yon rock
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: that mates the sky, about whose feet such heaps of
- 1:07:34Speaker 3: rubbish lie, such indigested ruin, bleak and bare, how dissart
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: now it stands exposed in air. It was once a
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: robbersten inclosed around with living stone, and deep beneath the ground.
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: The monster carcass more than half a beeast this hold,
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: impervious to the sun, possessed the payment, ever foul with
- 1:07:59Speaker 3: human gore heads and their mangled members hung the door.
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: Vulcan Displayue begot unlike his sire, black clouds, he belged
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: and flakes of livid fire. Time long expected east us
- 1:08:15Speaker 3: of our load, and brought the needful presence of a god.
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: The avenging force of Hercules from Spain arrived in triumph,
- 1:08:24Speaker 3: from gayer and slain thrice livid the giant, and thrice
- 1:08:29Speaker 3: livid in vain his price. The lowing herds Alqedestroo, near
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: Tiber's bank to graze. The shady grew alerd with hope
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: of plunder and intent by force to rob by fraud,
- 1:08:44Speaker 3: to circumvent the brutal carcass as by chance they strayed
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: for oxen, thence and for fair kind conveyed. Unless the
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: printed footsteps might be seen, he dragged them backwards to
- 1:08:58Speaker 3: his rocky den. The tracks averse a lying notice, gave
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: and led the searcher backward from the cave. Meantime, the
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: herchman hero shifts his place to find fresh pasture and
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: untrodden grass. The beasts who missed their mates, filled all
- 1:09:17Speaker 3: around with bellowing, and the rocks restored the sound. One HiFER,
- 1:09:23Speaker 3: who had heard her love complain, roared from the cave
- 1:09:27Speaker 3: and made the project. Vain Alkides found the fraud with rage,
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: he shook and tossed about his head his knotted oak,
- 1:09:36Speaker 3: swift as the wind's or skeetcheon arrow's flight. He clumbed
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: with eager haste the aerial height. Then first we saw
- 1:09:44Speaker 3: the monster mend his pace. Fairis eyes and paleness in
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: his face confessed the god's approach, trembling his springs as
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: terror had increased his feet with wings, nor stay for stairs,
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: but down the depth. He threw his body on his
- 1:10:04Speaker 3: back the door. He drew the door a rib of
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: living rock with pains. His father ewed it out and
- 1:10:12Speaker 3: bounded with iron chains. He broke the heavy links. The
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: mountains closed, and bars and levers to his foe a post.
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: The wretch had hardly made his dungeons fast. The fierce
- 1:10:25Speaker 3: avenger came with bound in haste, swayed the mouth of
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: the forbidden hold, And here and there his raging eyes
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: he rolled, He gnashed his teeth, and thrice he compassed
- 1:10:39Speaker 3: round with wing speed the circuit of the ground. Thrice.
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: At the cavern's mouth he pulled, in vain and panting,
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: thrice desisted from his pain. A pointed, flinted rock, all
- 1:10:51Speaker 3: bare and black, grew gibbons from behind the mountain's back.
- 1:10:56Speaker 3: Owl's ravens, all ill omens of the night here built
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: their nests, and hither winged their flight. The leaning head
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: hung threatening over the flood, and nodded to the left
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: the hair a stud at verse with planted feet, and
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: from the right tagged at the solid stone with all
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: his might. Thus heaved the fixed foundation of the rock,
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: gave way heaven echoed at the rattling shock, tumbling, it
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: choked the flood on either side. The banks leaped backward,
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: and the streams divide. The sky shrunk upward with unusual
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: dread and trembling teaber divide. Beneath his bed, the court
- 1:11:41Speaker 3: of carcass stands revealed to sight the cavern glass with
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: new admitted light. So the pent vapors with rumbling sound.
- 1:11:50Speaker 3: He from below and rend the hollow ground as sounding
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: floor succeeds, and from on high the gods with hate
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: beheld the nether sky. The ghost repine at violated night,
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: and cursed the invading sun, and sicken at the sight.
- 1:12:08Speaker 3: The graceless monster, caught in open day, inclosed and in
- 1:12:13Speaker 3: despair to fly away, howls horrible from underneath and fills
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: his hallow palace. When unmanly yells, the hero stands above,
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: and from afar plies him with darts and stones and
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: distant war. He from his nostrils huge mouth expires black
- 1:12:35Speaker 3: clouds of smoke amidst his father's fires, gathering with each
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: repeated blast the night to make uncertain aim and err
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: in sight. The wrathful god then plunges from above, and
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: where in thickest waves the sparkles stroll their lights, and
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: wades through fumes and groups his way, half singed, half stifled,
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: till he grasps his prey, the monsters pewing fruitless flames
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: he found. He squeezed his throat. He wreathed his neck
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: around and in a knot, his crippled members bound, then
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: from their sockets tore his burning eyes. Rolled on a heap,
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: the breathless robber lies the doors unbarred received the rushing day,
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: and thoroughlites disclose the ravished prey. The bull's redeemed breathe
- 1:13:29Speaker 3: open air again, next by the feet that drag him
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: from his stn the wondering neighborhood. With glad surprise the
- 1:13:38Speaker 3: holy shagged breest, his giant size, his mouth that flames
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: no more, and his extinguished eyes. From that auspicious day,
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: with rights divine, we worship at the hero's holy shrine.
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: Potiticius first ordained these annual vows. As priests. We added
- 1:13:59Speaker 3: the pinarian house, who raised this altar in the sacred shade,
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: where honors ever due, forever shall be paid for these deserts,
- 1:14:09Speaker 3: and this high virtue shown we war like youth, your
- 1:14:13Speaker 3: heads with Garland's crown, fill high the goblets with a
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: sparkling flood, and with deep drafts, invoke our common God.
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: This said a double breath ebunder twined and poplar's black
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: and whitish temple's bind then brims his ample bowl with
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: like design. The rest invoke the gods with sprinkled wine. Meantime,
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: the sun descended from the skies, and the bright evening
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: star began to rise. And now the priests Potitius at
- 1:14:48Speaker 3: their head in skins of beasts involved the long procession,
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: lead held high, the flaming tapers in their hands, as
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: custom had prescribed, their holy bands. Then, with the second course,
- 1:15:01Speaker 3: the table slowed, and with full chargers offered to the
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: god the Salih, sing and sense his altars round with
- 1:15:10Speaker 3: sob on smoke their heads with poplar bond, one choir
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: of old, another of the young, to dance and bear
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: the burthen of the song. The lay records the labors
- 1:15:22Speaker 3: and their praise, and all the mortal acts of Hercules. First,
- 1:15:27Speaker 3: how the mighty Babe, when swathed in bands, the serpent
- 1:15:31Speaker 3: strangled with his infant hands. Then, as in years and
- 1:15:35Speaker 3: matchless force, he grew the Oukalian walls and Troyon overthrew
- 1:15:41Speaker 3: besides a thousand hazards they relate procur'd by June and
- 1:15:45Speaker 3: Eurysta's hate. Thy hands, unconquered hero could subdue the cloud
- 1:15:51Speaker 3: borncin towers and their monsters crew, nor thy resistless arms
- 1:15:56Speaker 3: the bull withstood, nor the roaring terror of the wood.
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: The triple porter of the Stagian seat, with lolling tongue,
- 1:16:05Speaker 3: lay fawning at thy feet and ceased with fear for
- 1:16:09Speaker 3: God iss mangled meet the infernal waters tremble at thy
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: sight thee God. No face of danger could affright, no
- 1:16:18Speaker 3: huge dufhus, nor the unnumber'd snake increased with hissing heads
- 1:16:24Speaker 3: in Lerner's lake, Hail Jos undoubted son An added grace
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: to Heaven, and the great author of thy race, receive
- 1:16:34Speaker 3: the grateful offerings which we pay, and smile propitious on
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: thy solemn day. In numbers. Thus they sung about the rest,
- 1:16:43Speaker 3: the den and death of carcass crown, the feast, the
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: woods to hollow, vales convey the sound, the vales to
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: hills and hills, the notes rebound, the rites perform'd. The
- 1:16:56Speaker 3: cheerful train retire betwixt young Pallas and his aged sire
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: the Troy, and passed the city to survey, and pleasing
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: talk begilded the tedious bay. The stranger cast around his
- 1:17:10Speaker 3: curious eyes new objects, viewing still with new surprise, with
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: greedy joy enquires of various things and acts and monuments
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: of ancient kings. Then thus the founder of the Roman towers.
- 1:17:26Speaker 3: These woods were first the seat of Sylvan powers, of
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: nymns and fauns and salvage, men who took their berth
- 1:17:34Speaker 3: from trunks of trees and stubborn oak. Nor laws they knew,
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: nor manners, nor the care of laboring oxen, or the
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: shining share, nor archs of gain, nor what the gain
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: to spare their exercise the chase. The running flood supplied
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: their thirst, the trees supplied their foot. Then Saturn came,
- 1:17:57Speaker 3: who fled the power of Joe, robbed of his realms,
- 1:18:01Speaker 3: and banished from above. The men dispersed on hills to
- 1:18:05Speaker 3: towns he brought, and lore ordained, and civil customs taught,
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: and Latium called the land where safe he lay from
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: his undutious son and his usurping sway with his smiled empire.
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: Peace and plenty came, and hence the Golden times to
- 1:18:24Speaker 3: read their name. A more degenerate and discolored age succeeded
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: this with avarice and rage. The Asaunians then, and bold
- 1:18:35Speaker 3: Siccanians came, and Saturn's empire often changed. The name then
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: kings Gigantic, Tibris, and the rest with Orbitrary sway. The
- 1:18:46Speaker 3: land oppressed for Tiber's flood was Albula before till from
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: the tyrant's fate his name it Bore. I last arrived,
- 1:18:57Speaker 3: driving from my native home by fortune's power and faith's
- 1:19:01Speaker 3: resistless doom. Long toss'd on seas, I sought this happy
- 1:19:07Speaker 3: land worn by my mother Nymph, and call'd by Heaven's
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: command end of Book eight, Part one, Book eight Arcadian Allies,
- 1:19:22Speaker 3: Part two. Thus, walking on, he spoke and showed the gate,
- 1:19:28Speaker 3: since call'd Carmental by the Roman state, where stood an
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: altar sacred to the name of old Carmenta, the prophetic
- 1:19:36Speaker 3: dame who to her son foretold their knee and race
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: sublime in fame and Rome's imperial place. Then shows the
- 1:19:47Speaker 3: forest which in after times fears Romulus for perpetrated crimes,
- 1:19:52Speaker 3: a sacred refuge mate with this the shrine, where palm
- 1:19:57Speaker 3: below the rock and rites divine, then tells of Argus death,
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: his murdered guest, whose grave and tomb his innocence attest.
- 1:20:08Speaker 3: Thence to steep Tarpeian rocky leads, now roof'd with gold,
- 1:20:13Speaker 3: then thatch'd with homely reeds, a reverent fair. Such superstition
- 1:20:19Speaker 3: reigns among the route, even then possess'd the swains some god.
- 1:20:24Speaker 3: They knew what God, they could not tell. Did there
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: amidst the sacred horror dwell The Arcadian thought him job
- 1:20:33Speaker 3: and said they saw the mighty thunderer with majestic ave,
- 1:20:38Speaker 3: who took his shield and dealt his bolts around and
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: scattered tempests on the teeming ground. Then saw two heaps
- 1:20:46Speaker 3: of ruins. Once they stood to stately towns on either
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: side the flood Saturnius and jan Nicholas remains, and either
- 1:20:57Speaker 3: place the founder's name retains discoursing. Thus together they resort
- 1:21:03Speaker 3: where poor Evander kept his country court. They view'd the
- 1:21:07Speaker 3: ground of Rome's litigious hall, once oxen load, where now
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: the lawyer's ball. Then stooping through the narrow gate, they
- 1:21:17Speaker 3: press'd when thus the king bespoke his troy and guest
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: mean as it is this palace and this door receiv'd alqudes.
- 1:21:27Speaker 3: Then a conqueror dare to be poor except our homely food,
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: which feasted him and emulate a god. Then underneath a
- 1:21:39Speaker 3: lowly roof he led the wary prince and laid him
- 1:21:43Speaker 3: on a bed, then stuffing leaves with hides of bears o'erspread.
- 1:21:48Speaker 3: Now Knight had shed her silver juice around, and with
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: her sable wings embraced the ground. When Love's fair goddess,
- 1:21:57Speaker 3: anxious for her son new to mold racing a new
- 1:22:01Speaker 3: war's begun, couched with her husband in his golden bed.
- 1:22:06Speaker 3: With these alluring words, invokes his aid, and that her
- 1:22:10Speaker 3: pleasing speech his mind may move, inspires each accent with
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: his charms of love. While cruel fate conspired with Grecian
- 1:22:21Speaker 3: powers to level with the ground that Troyan towers. I'd
- 1:22:26Speaker 3: ask not aid the unhappy to restore, Nor did the
- 1:22:30Speaker 3: succor of thy skill implore, nor urge the labors of
- 1:22:34Speaker 3: my lord in vain, a sinking empire longer to sustain,
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: though much I owe to Priam's house, and more the
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: dangers of aneas did Deplore but now by Jove's command
- 1:22:49Speaker 3: and Fate's decree, his race is doom'd to reign in
- 1:22:53Speaker 3: Italy with humble suit. I beg thy needful art or
- 1:22:58Speaker 3: still propitious power that drus my heart. A mother kneels,
- 1:23:03Speaker 3: a suppliant for her son by Tetis and Aurora, thou
- 1:23:08Speaker 3: at won to forge impenetrable shields and grace with fated
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: arms a less illustrious race. Behold, what haughty nations are
- 1:23:19Speaker 3: combined against the relics of the freakian kind with fire
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: and sword, my people to destroy and conquer Venus twice
- 1:23:29Speaker 3: in conquering Troy, she said, and straight her arms of
- 1:23:33Speaker 3: snowy yu about her unresolving husband. Through her soft embraces,
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: soon infuse desire his bones and marrow. Sudden warmth inspire,
- 1:23:44Speaker 3: and all that God had feels the wonted fire not
- 1:23:48Speaker 3: half so swift, the rattling thunder flies or forky lightning
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: flash along the skies. The goddess, proud of her successful
- 1:23:57Speaker 3: whiles and conscious of her form in secret smiles. Then
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: thus the power of noxious to her charms, panting and
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: half dissolving in her arms. Why seek your reasons for
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: a cause so just, or your own beauties, or my
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: love detrust long since had you requir'd my helpful hand,
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: the artificer and art you might command to labor arms
- 1:24:24Speaker 3: for Troy, nor Jove, nor Fate confine their empire to
- 1:24:29Speaker 3: so short a date. And if you now desire you
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: wars to wage my skill, I promise, and my pains engage.
- 1:24:38Speaker 3: Whatever melting metals can conspire, or breathing bellows or the
- 1:24:44Speaker 3: forming fire is freely yours. Your anxious fears remove, and
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: think no task is difficult to love. Trembling, he spoke,
- 1:24:54Speaker 3: and eager over charms, he snatched the willing goddess to
- 1:24:58Speaker 3: his arms, till in her lap infused. He lay, possessed
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: of full desire, and sunk to pleasing rest. Now, when
- 1:25:08Speaker 3: the night her middle race had rowed, and his first
- 1:25:11Speaker 3: slumber had refreshed the god the time when early housewives
- 1:25:15Speaker 3: leave the bed, when living embers on the hearth, They
- 1:25:19Speaker 3: spread supply the lamp and call the maids to rise.
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: With yawning mouths, and with half opened eyes, they ply
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: the distuff by the winking light, and to their daily
- 1:25:31Speaker 3: labor at their night. Thus frugally they earned their children's
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: bread and uncorrupted. Keep the nuptial bed not less concern'd,
- 1:25:42Speaker 3: nor at a later hour rose from his downy couch
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: the forging power sacred to Vulcan's name and isle there
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: lay betwixt Cecilia's coast and Leparay, raised high on smoking
- 1:25:58Speaker 3: rocks and deep below in hollow caves. The fires of
- 1:26:02Speaker 3: Etna glow. The ki clips hear their heavy hammer steel.
- 1:26:07Speaker 3: Loud strokes and hissings of tormented steel are heard around
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: the boiling waters, roar and smoky flames through fuming tunnels.
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: Soar heither the father of the fire, by night throw
- 1:26:22Speaker 3: the brown air precipitates his flight on their eternal anvils.
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: Here he found the brethren beating, and the blows go round.
- 1:26:32Speaker 3: A load of pointless thunder. Now there lies before their
- 1:26:35Speaker 3: hands to ripen for the skies. These starts for angry Jove.
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: They daily cast consumed on mortals with prodigious waste through
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: rays of rhythen rain of fire, three more of winged
- 1:26:51Speaker 3: southern winds and cloudy store as many parts the dreadful
- 1:26:55Speaker 3: mixture frame and fears are added, and avenging flaw inferior
- 1:27:01Speaker 3: ministers for Mars repair his broken axle trees and blunted war,
- 1:27:07Speaker 3: and send him forth again with furbished arms to wake
- 1:27:11Speaker 3: the lazy war. With trumpet's loud alarms. The rest refresh
- 1:27:17Speaker 3: the scaly snake that fold the shield of pallace and
- 1:27:21Speaker 3: renew their gold full On the crest of Gorgon's head
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: they place with eyes that roll in death and with
- 1:27:29Speaker 3: distorted face. My sons said, Vulcan, set your task aside.
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: Your strength and master skill must now be tried. Arms
- 1:27:41Speaker 3: for a hero. Forge arms that require your force, your speed,
- 1:27:45Speaker 3: and all your forming fire, he said. They set their
- 1:27:49Speaker 3: former work aside, and their new toils, with eager haste,
- 1:27:53Speaker 3: divide a flood of molten silver, brass and gold and
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: deadly steel in the large furnace road of this. Their
- 1:28:03Speaker 3: artful hands a shield prepare alone sufficient to sustain the
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: wire seven orbs within a spacious round. They close, one
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: stirs the fire, and one the bellows blows. The hissing
- 1:28:19Speaker 3: steel is in the smithy, drowned. The grot with beaten
- 1:28:23Speaker 3: animals groans around by turns, their arms advance in equal
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: time by turns, their hands descend, and hammer's chime. They
- 1:28:33Speaker 3: turn the glowing mass with crooked tongues. The fairy work
- 1:28:37Speaker 3: proceeds with rustic songs, while at the Limnian gods command,
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: they urge their labors. Thus and ply the Aulian forge,
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: the cheerful morn salutes Evander's eyes, and songs of chirping
- 1:28:53Speaker 3: birds invite to rise. He leaves his slowly bed, his
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: buskin's meat above his ankle, Sandals sheath his feet. He
- 1:29:03Speaker 3: sets his trust, his sword upon his side, and o'er
- 1:29:06Speaker 3: his shoulder throws a panther's hide to menial dogs before
- 1:29:11Speaker 3: the master prist. Thus clad and guarded us, he seeks
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: his kingly guest. Mindful of promised aid, he ments his pace,
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: but meets Aeneas in the middle space. Genpalas did his
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: father's steps attend, and true Acatus waited on his friend.
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: They joined their hands a secret seat. They choose the
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: Arcadian first. Their former talk renews undaunted, Prince, I never
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: can believe the Troyan empire lost, while you survive command
- 1:29:46Speaker 3: the assistance of a faithful friend. But feeble are the suckers.
- 1:29:51Speaker 3: I consent our narrow kingdom. Here the tea were bounds
- 1:29:56Speaker 3: that other side the Latian state surrounds in. Results are
- 1:30:00Speaker 3: walls and waste our fruitful grounds. But mighty nations, I
- 1:30:05Speaker 3: prepare to join their arms with yours and aid your
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: just design. You come, as by your better genius, scent
- 1:30:15Speaker 3: and fortune seems to favor your intent. Not far from
- 1:30:19Speaker 3: hence there stands a hilly town of ancient buildings and
- 1:30:23Speaker 3: of high renown, torn from the Tuscans by the Lydian race,
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: who gave the name of Carie to the place. Once
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: Agaillina call'd it flourish'd long in pride of wealth and
- 1:30:38Speaker 3: warlike people, strong till cursed missentious in a fatal hour
- 1:30:43Speaker 3: assume the crown with arbitrary power. What words can paint
- 1:30:48Speaker 3: those execrable times, the subjects sufferings and the tyrant's crimes
- 1:30:54Speaker 3: that blood thus murders, o ye gods replace on his
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: own head and on his empire's race. The living and
- 1:31:03Speaker 3: the dead at his command were couple face to face
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: and hand to hand, till choked with stench, lst embrace
- 1:31:12Speaker 3: his tide. The lingering wretches pined away and died, Thus
- 1:31:17Speaker 3: plunged in ills and meditating more, the people's patience tide
- 1:31:22Speaker 3: no longer bore the raging monster, but with arms beset
- 1:31:27Speaker 3: his house and vengeance and destruction threat. They fire his place.
- 1:31:33Speaker 3: While the flame ascends, they force his cards and execute
- 1:31:37Speaker 3: his friends. He cleaves the crowd and favor'd by the
- 1:31:41Speaker 3: knight to turn as friendly court directs his flight by
- 1:31:46Speaker 3: just revenge. The Tuscans set on fire with arms. The
- 1:31:50Speaker 3: king to punishment require their numerous troops now mustered on
- 1:31:56Speaker 3: the strand. My counsel shall submit to your command. The
- 1:32:01Speaker 3: navy's swarms upon the coasts. They cry to hoist their anchors,
- 1:32:06Speaker 3: but the gods deny an ancient augur skill'd in future fate.
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: With these foreboding words, restrains their hate. Ye brave in arms,
- 1:32:17Speaker 3: yelidian blood, the flower of Tuscan youth, and choice of
- 1:32:22Speaker 3: all their power, whom just revenge against mesentious arms. To
- 1:32:27Speaker 3: seek your tyrant's death by lawful arms. Know this, no
- 1:32:32Speaker 3: native of our land may lead. These powerful people seek
- 1:32:36Speaker 3: a foreign head out with these words. In camps they
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: still abide and wait with longing looks. Their promis'd guide Tarkon,
- 1:32:46Speaker 3: the Tuscan chief to me, has sent their crowned and
- 1:32:49Speaker 3: every regal ornament. The people join their own with his
- 1:32:54Speaker 3: desire and all my conduct as their king require. But
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: the chill blood that creeps within my veins, and age
- 1:33:04Speaker 3: and listless limbs unfit for pains, and a soul conscious
- 1:33:09Speaker 3: of its own decay, have forced me to refuse imperial
- 1:33:13Speaker 3: sway my palace were more fit to mount the throne,
- 1:33:18Speaker 3: and should. But he is a sab in mother's son
- 1:33:21Speaker 3: and half a native. But in you combine a manly
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: vigor and a foreign line, where fate and smiling fortune
- 1:33:31Speaker 3: show the way pursue the ready path to sovereign sway
- 1:33:36Speaker 3: the staff of my declining days. My son shall make
- 1:33:40Speaker 3: your good or ill success his own in fighting fields.
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: From you shall learn to dare and serve the hard
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: apprenticeship of war, your matchless courage, and your conduct view,
- 1:33:55Speaker 3: and early shall begin to admire and copy you. Besides
- 1:34:00Speaker 3: two hundred horse he shall command, though few a warlack
- 1:34:04Speaker 3: and well chosen band, These in my name are listed,
- 1:34:08Speaker 3: and my son as many more, has added in his
- 1:34:12Speaker 3: own scarce. Had he said a cartas and his guest,
- 1:34:17Speaker 3: with downcast eyes, their silent grief express'd who short of
- 1:34:22Speaker 3: succors and in deep despair, shook at the dismal prospect
- 1:34:27Speaker 3: of the wire. But his bright mother from a breaking
- 1:34:31Speaker 3: cloud to cheer her issue, thunder'd thrice aloud, thri's forky,
- 1:34:36Speaker 3: lightning flash'd along the sky, and to rain a trumpet's
- 1:34:40Speaker 3: thrice were heard on high. Then, gazing up repeated peals
- 1:34:45Speaker 3: they hear, and in a heav'n serene refulgent arms appear,
- 1:34:51Speaker 3: reddening the skies and glittering all around. The temper'd metals
- 1:34:56Speaker 3: clash and yield a silver sound. The rest stood trembling,
- 1:35:01Speaker 3: struck with ave Divine and nea us only conscious to
- 1:35:05Speaker 3: the sign presaged the event and joyful view above the
- 1:35:11Speaker 3: accomplished promise of the Queen of love. Then to the
- 1:35:15Speaker 3: Arcadian king, this prodigy dismiss your fear belongs alone to me.
- 1:35:21Speaker 3: Heaven calls me to the war. The expected sign is
- 1:35:26Speaker 3: given of promised aid and arms. Divine, my goddess mother,
- 1:35:31Speaker 3: whose indulgent care foresaw the dangers of the growing wear
- 1:35:37Speaker 3: this omen gave when bright Volcanian arms faded from force
- 1:35:42Speaker 3: of steel by Stygian charms suspended shown on high. She
- 1:35:47Speaker 3: then foreshowed approaching fights and fields to float in blood.
- 1:35:52Speaker 3: Turner shall dearly pay for faith for sworn and corpse,
- 1:35:57Speaker 3: and swords and shields on teber Born shall choke his flood.
- 1:36:02Speaker 3: Now sound aloud alarms and Latsian troops. Prepare your perjured arms,
- 1:36:09Speaker 3: he said, and rising from his homely throne, the solemn
- 1:36:13Speaker 3: rites of Hercules spagon and on his altars wake the
- 1:36:17Speaker 3: sleeping fires. Then, cheerful to his household, God's retires their
- 1:36:23Speaker 3: offers chosen, sheep their Cardian king, and try and youth
- 1:36:28Speaker 3: the same Oblacian spring. Next of his men and ships,
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: he makes review, draws out the best and ablest of
- 1:36:36Speaker 3: the crew down with a falling stream. The refuse run
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: to race with joyful news. His trooping son steeds are
- 1:36:45Speaker 3: prepared to mount the troy and band who wait their
- 1:36:49Speaker 3: leader to the yennal land, a sprightly, coarser, fairer than
- 1:36:54Speaker 3: the rest. The king himself presents his royal guests allion's hide,
- 1:37:00Speaker 3: his back and limbs in fold, precious with studded work
- 1:37:04Speaker 3: and pals of gold. Fame through the little city spreads
- 1:37:10Speaker 3: aloud the intended march amid the fearful crowd. The matrons
- 1:37:15Speaker 3: beat their breasts, dissolve in tears, and double their devotion
- 1:37:20Speaker 3: in their fears. The war at hand appears with more
- 1:37:24Speaker 3: affright and rises every moment to the sight. Then old Evander,
- 1:37:30Speaker 3: with a close embrace, strained his departing friend, and tears
- 1:37:36Speaker 3: overflow his face. Would heaven, said he my strength and
- 1:37:41Speaker 3: youth recall such as I was beneath prinestes wall. Then
- 1:37:47Speaker 3: when I made the foremost foes retire and set whole
- 1:37:50Speaker 3: heaps of conquered shields on fire, When hereelus in single fight,
- 1:37:56Speaker 3: I slow whom with three lives ferrone yea did endure,
- 1:38:01Speaker 3: and thrice I sent him to the Stigyon shore, till
- 1:38:05Speaker 3: the last ebbing soul returned no more. Such if I
- 1:38:10Speaker 3: stood renewed. Not these alarms nor death should rend me
- 1:38:14Speaker 3: from my palace's arms, nor proud messentious thus unpunished boast
- 1:38:21Speaker 3: his rapes and murders on the Tuscan coast. Ye, God's
- 1:38:25Speaker 3: an mighty jove in pity, bring relief and hear a
- 1:38:30Speaker 3: father and a king. If fate and you reserve these
- 1:38:35Speaker 3: eyes to see my son returned with peace and victory.
- 1:38:39Speaker 3: If the loved boy shall bless his father's sight, if
- 1:38:43Speaker 3: we shall meet again with more delight, then draw my
- 1:38:47Speaker 3: life in length, let me sustain in hopes of his embrace.
- 1:38:51Speaker 3: The worst of pain. But if your heart decrease, which
- 1:38:56Speaker 3: oh I dread have doomed to death, is underth serving head.
- 1:39:01Speaker 3: This O, this very moment, let me die, while hopes
- 1:39:05Speaker 3: and fears in equal balance lie, While yet possessed of
- 1:39:10Speaker 3: all his youthful charms, I strain him close within these
- 1:39:15Speaker 3: aged arms. Before that fatal news, my soul shall wound,
- 1:39:20Speaker 3: he said, and, swooning, sunk upon the ground. His servants
- 1:39:25Speaker 3: bore him off and softly laid his languished limbs upon
- 1:39:29Speaker 3: his homely bed. The horsemen march. The gates are open wide,
- 1:39:34Speaker 3: Aeneas at their head, a carter's by his side. Next
- 1:39:38Speaker 3: these the troy and leaders rode along. Last follows in
- 1:39:42Speaker 3: the rear their Carjean's throng jan Pallas shone conspicuous o'er
- 1:39:47Speaker 3: the rest gilded his arms, embroidered was his vest. So
- 1:39:52Speaker 3: from the seas exerted his radiant head. The star by
- 1:39:56Speaker 3: whom the lights of heaven are led, aches from his
- 1:40:00Speaker 3: rosy locks. The pearly juice dispels the darkness and the
- 1:40:05Speaker 3: dairy news. The trembling wives, the walls and tire It's
- 1:40:09Speaker 3: crowd and follow with their eyes the dusty cloud which
- 1:40:14Speaker 3: winds disperse by fits and shrew from far the blaze
- 1:40:18Speaker 3: of arms and shields and shining war. The troops, drawn
- 1:40:22Speaker 3: up in beautifully array over hearthy plains, pursue the ready way.
- 1:40:28Speaker 3: Repeated peace or shouts are heard around the neighing courses
- 1:40:33Speaker 3: answer to the sound and shake with horny hoofs. The
- 1:40:36Speaker 3: solid ground a greens which shade for long religion known,
- 1:40:42Speaker 3: stands by the streams that wash the Tuscan town encompast
- 1:40:47Speaker 3: round with gloomy hills abough which add a holy horror
- 1:40:51Speaker 3: to the growl. The first inhabitants of Grecian blood that
- 1:40:56Speaker 3: sacred forests to Silvana's avout the guardian of their flocks
- 1:41:00Speaker 3: and fields, and pay their due devotions on his annual day.
- 1:41:06Speaker 3: Not far from hence, along the river side, intense secure,
- 1:41:11Speaker 3: the Tuscan troops abide by Tarkan lead. Now from a
- 1:41:16Speaker 3: rising ground, Eneas cast his wandering eyes around, and all
- 1:41:21Speaker 3: the Terena army had in sight stretched on the spacious
- 1:41:26Speaker 3: plain from left to right thither his warlike train, the
- 1:41:31Speaker 3: troy and lead refreshed his men and wearied horses fed. Meantime,
- 1:41:37Speaker 3: the mother goddess crowned with charms, breaks through the clouds
- 1:41:42Speaker 3: and brings the fated arms within a winding veil. She
- 1:41:45Speaker 3: finds her son on the cool river's banks, Retired alone.
- 1:41:51Speaker 3: She shoots her heavenly form without disgies, and gives herself
- 1:41:55Speaker 3: to his desiring eyes. Behold, she said, perform in every
- 1:42:00Speaker 3: part my promise made, and Vulcan's labor'd art. Now seek
- 1:42:06Speaker 3: secure the latian enemi and the haughty turners to the fields. Defy,
- 1:42:12Speaker 3: she said, And having first a son, embraced the radiant
- 1:42:16Speaker 3: arms beneath an oak she placed. Proud of the gift,
- 1:42:20Speaker 3: he rolled his greedy side around the work, and gazed
- 1:42:24Speaker 3: with vast delight. He lifts, he turns, He poises, and
- 1:42:27Speaker 3: admires the crested hen that vomits. Radiant fires his hands
- 1:42:34Speaker 3: the fatal sword, and courselet hold one keen with tempered steel,
- 1:42:39Speaker 3: one stiff with gold, both ample, flaming both and beamy
- 1:42:44Speaker 3: bright so shines a cloud when edg'd with adverse light.
- 1:42:49Speaker 3: He shakes the pointed spear and longs to try the
- 1:42:53Speaker 3: plated cushes on his manly thigh, but most admires the
- 1:42:58Speaker 3: shield's mysterious man and Roman triumphs rising on the gold.
- 1:43:04Speaker 3: For these embossed the heavenly smith had wrought not in
- 1:43:08Speaker 3: the rolls of future fate untaught the wars in order,
- 1:43:13Speaker 3: and the rays divine of warriors. Issuing from the Julian line.
- 1:43:19Speaker 3: The cave of marsh was dressed with mossy greens. There
- 1:43:23Speaker 3: By the wolf were laid the marshal twins intrepid on
- 1:43:27Speaker 3: her swelling dugs. They hung the foster dam lulled out
- 1:43:32Speaker 3: her fawning tongue. They sucked secure while bending back her head.
- 1:43:37Speaker 3: She licked their tender limbs and formed them as they fed.
- 1:43:41Speaker 3: Not far from thence new Rome appears, with games projected
- 1:43:46Speaker 3: for the rape of Sabin dames. The pit resounds were shrieks.
- 1:43:50Speaker 3: A war succeeds for breach of public faith and unexampled deeds.
- 1:43:56Speaker 3: Here for revenge, the Sabin troops contend the Romans there
- 1:44:01Speaker 3: with arms, the prey defend. Wearied with tedious war, at
- 1:44:05Speaker 3: length they cease, and both the kings and kingdoms flight
- 1:44:09Speaker 3: the peace. The friendly chiefs before Jove's altar stand both arm'd,
- 1:44:15Speaker 3: with each a charger in his hand. A faty sow
- 1:44:19Speaker 3: for sacrifice is led with imprecations on the perjured head.
- 1:44:24Speaker 3: Near this, the traitor Methius, stretch'd between for Fiery's deeds,
- 1:44:29Speaker 3: is dragg'd along the green by Tullus's doom. The bramble's drink,
- 1:44:33Speaker 3: his blood and his thorn limbs are left. The vulturous
- 1:44:38Speaker 3: foot there poursina to Rome. Proud tarquin brings, and would
- 1:44:44Speaker 3: by force restore the banish'd kings. One tyrant for his
- 1:44:49Speaker 3: fellow tyrant fights the Roman youth assert their native rites
- 1:44:54Speaker 3: before the town. The Tuscan army lies to win by
- 1:44:58Speaker 3: famine or by fraud. Surprise, their king, half threatening, half disdaining,
- 1:45:04Speaker 3: stood while cockles broke the bridge and stemm'd the flood.
- 1:45:09Speaker 3: The captive maids, their tempt the raging tide, scraped from
- 1:45:13Speaker 3: their chains, with Celia for their guide. High on a rock,
- 1:45:17Speaker 3: heroic Manlius stood to guard the temple and the temple's god.
- 1:45:23Speaker 3: Then Rome was poor, and there you might behold the
- 1:45:27Speaker 3: palace thatch'd with straw, now roofed with gold. The silver
- 1:45:32Speaker 3: goose before the shining gate there flew and by her
- 1:45:36Speaker 3: cackles saved the state. She told the Gauls approach. The
- 1:45:41Speaker 3: approaching Gauls obscure in night ascend and seized the walls.
- 1:45:47Speaker 3: The gold assembled well their yellow hair and golden chains
- 1:45:51Speaker 3: on their white necks. They wear gold are their vests,
- 1:45:56Speaker 3: long alpine spears they'd wheeled, and their lift eyes arm
- 1:46:00Speaker 3: sustains a length of sheet hard by the leaping salient
- 1:46:05Speaker 3: priests advance and naked through the streets. The mad Luperisi
- 1:46:11Speaker 3: dance in caps of wool, the targets dropped from heaven.
- 1:46:16Speaker 3: Her modest matrons in soft litters, driven to pay their
- 1:46:21Speaker 3: vows in solemn pomp, appear, and odorous gums in their
- 1:46:25Speaker 3: chased hands they bear far hence removed. Lustygian seats are seen,
- 1:46:32Speaker 3: pains of the damned and punished. Cataline hung on a
- 1:46:35Speaker 3: rock the traitor, and around the fury hissing from the
- 1:46:40Speaker 3: nether ground. Apart from these, the happy souls he draws,
- 1:46:45Speaker 3: and Carto's holy ghost dispensing laws. Betwixt the quarters flows
- 1:46:50Speaker 3: a golden sea, but foaming surges there in silver play.
- 1:46:56Speaker 3: The dancing dolphins, with their tails, divide the glittering waves
- 1:47:00Speaker 3: and cut the precious tide. Amid the main. Two mighty
- 1:47:04Speaker 3: fleets engage their brazen beaks opposed with equal rage axioms
- 1:47:10Speaker 3: surveys the well disputed price leve Carta's watry plane with
- 1:47:15Speaker 3: foamy Billus fries young Caesar on the stern in armor
- 1:47:21Speaker 3: bright here leads the Roman and their gods to fight.
- 1:47:25Speaker 3: His beamy temples shoot their flames afar, and over his
- 1:47:29Speaker 3: head is hung the Julian star. Agrippa seconds him with
- 1:47:34Speaker 3: prosperous gales and with propitious gods. His foes assails a
- 1:47:40Speaker 3: naval crown that binds his mandy brows. The happy fortune
- 1:47:44Speaker 3: of the fight for shows ranged on the liner post
- 1:47:48Speaker 3: Antonia springs, Barbarian aids and troops of Eastern kings, the
- 1:47:54Speaker 3: Arabian near and Bactrans from Afar, of Tang's discordant and
- 1:47:59Speaker 3: a mingled war and rich in cordy robes and midst
- 1:48:03Speaker 3: the strife. His ill fate follows him the Egyptian wife moving.
- 1:48:10Speaker 3: They fight with oars and forky prows. The froth is
- 1:48:13Speaker 3: gathered and the water glows. It seems as if the
- 1:48:18Speaker 3: cyclades again were rooted up and justled in the main
- 1:48:23Speaker 3: or floating mountains. Floating mountains meet. Such is the fierce
- 1:48:28Speaker 3: encounter of the fleet. Fireballs are thrown and pointed javelins
- 1:48:33Speaker 3: fly the fields of Neptune take the purple dye. The
- 1:48:37Speaker 3: Queen herself, amidst the loud alarms with the symbols, tossed
- 1:48:42Speaker 3: her fainting soldier's worms, fool as she was, who had
- 1:48:46Speaker 3: not yet divined her cruel fate, nor saw the snakes
- 1:48:50Speaker 3: behind her country. Gods, the monsters of the sky, great
- 1:48:55Speaker 3: Neptune Palace, and Love's Queen defy. The dog Annouba sparks,
- 1:49:01Speaker 3: but barks in vain no longer dares suppose. The ethereal
- 1:49:05Speaker 3: train Mars in the middle of the shining shield, is
- 1:49:10Speaker 3: grayed and strides along the liquid field. The dear results
- 1:49:14Speaker 3: from heaven with swift descent and discord, died in blood
- 1:49:18Speaker 3: with garment strength, divides the priest her steps. Belogna treads
- 1:49:23Speaker 3: and shakes her iron rod about their heads. This scene, Apollo,
- 1:49:28Speaker 3: from his Axian height, pours down his arrows at whose
- 1:49:33Speaker 3: winged flight. The trembling Indians and Egyptians shield and soft
- 1:49:38Speaker 3: sabines quit the water field. The fatal mistress hoists her
- 1:49:43Speaker 3: silken sails, and, shrinking from the fight, invokes the gales.
- 1:49:49Speaker 3: A ghast, she looks and heaves her breast for breath,
- 1:49:52Speaker 3: panting and pale with fear of future death. The god
- 1:49:57Speaker 3: had figured her as striving along by winds and waves,
- 1:50:02Speaker 3: and scudding through the throng. Just opposite sad Nilus opens
- 1:50:07Speaker 3: wide his arms and ample bosom to the tide, and
- 1:50:12Speaker 3: spreads his mantle over the winding coast, in which he
- 1:50:16Speaker 3: wraps his queen and hides the flying host. The victor
- 1:50:21Speaker 3: to the gods, His tanks expressed, and Rome triumphant with
- 1:50:25Speaker 3: his presence blessed three hundred temples in the town. He
- 1:50:30Speaker 3: placed with spoils and altars. Every temple graced three shining
- 1:50:35Speaker 3: nights and three succeeding days. The fields resound, which shouts,
- 1:50:40Speaker 3: the streets with praise, the domes with songs, the theaters
- 1:50:45Speaker 3: with plays. All altars flame. Before each altar lies drenched
- 1:50:50Speaker 3: in his score. The destined sacrifice Great caesars its sublime
- 1:50:56Speaker 3: upon his throne before Apollo's porch of Parian Stone, accepts
- 1:51:02Speaker 3: the presence vowed for victory, and hangs the monumental crowns
- 1:51:07Speaker 3: on high. Vast crowds of vanquished natures march along various
- 1:51:13Speaker 3: in arms, in habit and in tongue. Here maulsib assigns
- 1:51:18Speaker 3: the proper place for Carians, and the ungirted Numidian race
- 1:51:24Speaker 3: then ranks the Trachians in the second row, Wisketians, expert
- 1:51:29Speaker 3: in the dart and bow. And here the tamed Euphrat's
- 1:51:33Speaker 3: humbly glides, and there the Rine submits her swelling tides
- 1:51:38Speaker 3: and proud araxes, whom no bridge could bind. The Danes,
- 1:51:43Speaker 3: unconquered offspring march behind, and Morini, the last of human kind.
- 1:51:50Speaker 3: These figures on the shield, divinely wrought by Vulcan, labored
- 1:51:55Speaker 3: and by Venus, brought with joy and wonder filled the heirs,
- 1:52:00Speaker 3: thought unknown the names, he yet admires the grace and
- 1:52:05Speaker 3: bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race. End
- 1:52:12Speaker 3: of book eight, Ook nine, Part one of the Enid.
- 1:52:19Speaker 3: While these affairs in distant places passed the various Irish
- 1:52:24Speaker 3: Dunus sends with haste to find bold Turnus, who, with
- 1:52:28Speaker 3: anxious thought the secret shade of his great grandsiresort, retired alone.
- 1:52:34Speaker 3: She found the daring man and OpEd her rosy lips,
- 1:52:38Speaker 3: and thus began. But none of all the gods could
- 1:52:41Speaker 3: grant thy vows that Turnus this auspicious Day bestows beneas
- 1:52:48Speaker 3: gone to seek their garden. Prince has left the troy
- 1:52:51Speaker 3: on camp without defense, and short of succors, there employs
- 1:52:56Speaker 3: his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
- 1:53:01Speaker 3: Now snatch an hour that favors thy designs, unite thy
- 1:53:06Speaker 3: forces and attack their lines. This said on equal wings
- 1:53:12Speaker 3: she poised away and formed a ragant rainbow in her flight.
- 1:53:18Speaker 3: The Dawnian hero lifts his hands eyes, and thus invokes
- 1:53:22Speaker 3: the goddess as she flies iris the grace of heaven.
- 1:53:27Speaker 3: What power divine has sent thee down through dusky clouds
- 1:53:31Speaker 3: to shine? See they divide, Immortal Day appears, and glittering
- 1:53:37Speaker 3: planets dancing in their spheares with joy. These happy omens
- 1:53:42Speaker 3: I obey and follow to the wall the god that
- 1:53:46Speaker 3: leads the way. Thus having said, as by the brookistood
- 1:53:51Speaker 3: he scooped the water from the crystal flood. Then with
- 1:53:54Speaker 3: his hands the drops to heaven. He throws and loads
- 1:53:59Speaker 3: the powers of bow with offered vows. Now march the
- 1:54:03Speaker 3: bold confederates through the plain, well horsed, well clad, a
- 1:54:08Speaker 3: rich and shining train. Messapus leads the van, and in
- 1:54:13Speaker 3: the rear the suns of Tirius, in bright arms, appear
- 1:54:18Speaker 3: in the main battle with his flaming crest. The mighty
- 1:54:21Speaker 3: Turnus towers about the rest silent. They move majestically slow,
- 1:54:27Speaker 3: like ebbing Nile or Ganghis in his flow. The Troyans
- 1:54:31Speaker 3: view the dusty cloud from far and the dark menace
- 1:54:35Speaker 3: of the distant war Chikus from the Rampires saw it rise,
- 1:54:39Speaker 3: blackening the fields and thickening through the skies. Then to
- 1:54:44Speaker 3: his fellows, thus aloud, he calls, what rolling clouds? My friends?
- 1:54:49Speaker 3: Approach the walls, arm, arm and man the works. Prepare
- 1:54:53Speaker 3: your spears and pointed darths. The Largeian host appears thus worn.
- 1:54:59Speaker 3: They shut the gates with shouts, ascend the bulwarks, and
- 1:55:04Speaker 3: secure their foes. Attend for their wise general, with foreseeing care,
- 1:55:10Speaker 3: had charged them not to tempt the doubtful wire, nor,
- 1:55:14Speaker 3: though provoked in open Field's advance, but close within their lines,
- 1:55:19Speaker 3: attend their chance. Unwilling the Yet they keep the strict
- 1:55:24Speaker 3: command and sorely await in arms the hostile bann. The
- 1:55:28Speaker 3: fair returners flew before the rest a peeble steed of
- 1:55:32Speaker 3: tark canstrain. He press'd his helm of massy gold and
- 1:55:36Speaker 3: crimson was his crest. With twenty horse to second his designs.
- 1:55:41Speaker 3: An unexpected foe he faced the lines. Is there, he said,
- 1:55:46Speaker 3: in arms, who bravely there his leader honor and his
- 1:55:50Speaker 3: danger share. Then, spurring on his brandish dart, he threw
- 1:55:54Speaker 3: in sign of war, applauding shouts enshore a maze of
- 1:56:00Speaker 3: find a dustard race that run behind the rampires and
- 1:56:04Speaker 3: the battlesham. He rides around the camp with rolling eyes,
- 1:56:08Speaker 3: and stops at every post and every passage tries. So
- 1:56:12Speaker 3: roams the nightly wolf about the foe. Wet with descending
- 1:56:16Speaker 3: showers and stiff with cold, he howls for hunger, and
- 1:56:20Speaker 3: he grins for pain. His gnashing teeth are exercised in
- 1:56:24Speaker 3: vain and impotent of angel finds no way in his
- 1:56:29Speaker 3: descended pause to grasp the prey. The mothers listen, but
- 1:56:33Speaker 3: the bleathing lamps securely swig the dug beneath the dams.
- 1:56:38Speaker 3: Thus ranges eager turners over the plain, sharp with desire
- 1:56:42Speaker 3: and furious with disdain, So bays each passage with a
- 1:56:47Speaker 3: piercing sight to force his foes in equal field to fight. Thus,
- 1:56:52Speaker 3: while he gazes round at lengthy spies where fenced with
- 1:56:56Speaker 3: strong redoubts, Their navy eyes close underneath, eat the walls.
- 1:57:01Speaker 3: The washing tide secures from all approach this weaker side.
- 1:57:06Speaker 3: He takes the wished occasion, fills his hand with ready fires,
- 1:57:11Speaker 3: and shakes a flaming brand urge. By his present, every
- 1:57:15Speaker 3: soul is worn, and every hand with kindled firs is armed.
- 1:57:21Speaker 3: From the third pines, the scattering sparkles fly, fat vapors
- 1:57:26Speaker 3: mixed with flames involve the sky. What power amuses could
- 1:57:31Speaker 3: avert the flame which threatened in the fleet The Troyer
- 1:57:35Speaker 3: name tell for the fact, through length of time obscure
- 1:57:39Speaker 3: is hard of faith. Yet shall the fame endure? Tis
- 1:57:43Speaker 3: said that when the chief prepared his flight and fell
- 1:57:47Speaker 3: his timber from what DA's height, the grandam Goddess then
- 1:57:52Speaker 3: approached her son, and with a mother's majesty begun grant me.
- 1:57:57Speaker 3: She said, the soul request I bring, since conquer'd heav'n
- 1:58:02Speaker 3: has owned you for its king. On Edoth's brows for
- 1:58:05Speaker 3: ages past, there stood with firs and maples fill'd a
- 1:58:10Speaker 3: shady wood, and on the summit rose a sacred grew,
- 1:58:14Speaker 3: where I was worshiped with religious low those woods that
- 1:58:19Speaker 3: wholly grew my long delight. I gave the Troy and
- 1:58:22Speaker 3: Prince to speedy flight, Now filled with fear on their behalf,
- 1:58:27Speaker 3: I come. Let neither winds o'erset, nor waves in town
- 1:58:32Speaker 3: the floating forests of the sacred pine, but let it
- 1:58:36Speaker 3: be their safety to be mine. Then, thus replied her
- 1:58:40Speaker 3: awful son, who rose the raiding stars and heav'n and
- 1:58:45Speaker 3: earth controls. How dare you, mother, endless state demand for
- 1:58:51Speaker 3: vessels molded by a mortal hand? What then, is fate
- 1:58:56Speaker 3: shall bowld Ane'a's right of safety certain on the uncertain tide?
- 1:59:02Speaker 3: Yet what I can I grant? When wafted o'er the
- 1:59:06Speaker 3: Chief is landed on the Latchian shore, whatever ships escaped
- 1:59:10Speaker 3: the rating storms at my command shall change their fading
- 1:59:14Speaker 3: forms to nymphs divine, and plow the water away like
- 1:59:19Speaker 3: Dotis and the dages of the sea. To seal the
- 1:59:23Speaker 3: sacred bow by Styx his wall, the lake of liquid Bitch,
- 1:59:27Speaker 3: the dreary shore, and Flagaton's innavigable flood, and the black
- 1:59:32Speaker 3: regions of his brother God. He said, and shook the
- 1:59:36Speaker 3: skies with his imperial nod. And now at length the
- 1:59:41Speaker 3: numbered hours were come prefixed by Fate's irrevocable doom. When
- 1:59:46Speaker 3: the Great Mother of the gods was free to save
- 1:59:49Speaker 3: a ship's and finished Joe's decree, First from the quarter
- 1:59:54Speaker 3: of the morn, there sprung a light that signed the
- 1:59:57Speaker 3: heavens and shots along. Then from a cloud fringe round
- 2:00:01Speaker 3: with golden fires, where timberers heard, and very Sintian choirs,
- 2:00:07Speaker 3: And last a voice with more than mortal sounds. Both
- 2:00:11Speaker 3: hosts in armed a post with equal horror, wants ho
- 2:00:16Speaker 3: Troy and rays your needless aid for bear and know
- 2:00:20Speaker 3: my ships are my peculiar care. With greater ease, the
- 2:00:25Speaker 3: bold Rutulian may, with hissing brands, attempt to burn the sea.
- 2:00:30Speaker 3: Then singe my sacred pines. But you may charge loose
- 2:00:35Speaker 3: from your crooked anchors, launch at large, exalted each a nymph,
- 2:00:40Speaker 3: forsake the sand, and swim the seas at Seboulus command.
- 2:00:45Speaker 3: No sooner had the goddess ceased to speak. When low
- 2:00:49Speaker 3: the obedient ships, their hals are spreak and strange to tell,
- 2:00:53Speaker 3: like dolphins. In the main, they plunged their prows and
- 2:00:57Speaker 3: dive and spring again as many many beauteous maids. The
- 2:01:01Speaker 3: billow sweep as rode before tall vessels on the deep,
- 2:01:06Speaker 3: the foes surprised with wonders to the gast Messapus Curby's
- 2:01:10Speaker 3: fiery courses haste old Tabroad, and raising up his head,
- 2:01:15Speaker 3: called back his waters to their osi bed. Turners alone
- 2:01:19Speaker 3: on daunted border shock, and with these words his trembling
- 2:01:23Speaker 3: troops bespoke these monsters for the Troyan's fate are meant,
- 2:01:28Speaker 3: and are by Jove for black prestagious scent. He takes
- 2:01:32Speaker 3: the cower's last relief away. For fly they cannot, and
- 2:01:36Speaker 3: constrained to stay, must yield unfought a basing, glorious prey.
- 2:01:42Speaker 3: The liquid half of all the globe is lost. Heaven
- 2:01:45Speaker 3: shuts the seas, and we secure the coast. Theirs is
- 2:01:50Speaker 3: no more than that small spot of crown which myriads
- 2:01:54Speaker 3: of our martial men surround their fates. I fear not
- 2:01:58Speaker 3: a vain oracles tit was given to Venus. They should
- 2:02:02Speaker 3: cross the seas and land secure upon the Lattian plains.
- 2:02:06Speaker 3: Their promised hour is past, and mine remains. Tis in
- 2:02:11Speaker 3: the fate of Turnus to destroy with soar and fire
- 2:02:15Speaker 3: the faithless race of Troy, shall such affronts as these
- 2:02:19Speaker 3: alone in flame? The Grecian brothers and the Grecian name
- 2:02:24Speaker 3: my cause and theirs is one a fatal strife and
- 2:02:28Speaker 3: final ruin for a ravished wife. Was not enough that
- 2:02:33Speaker 3: punish'd for the crime they fell? But will they fall
- 2:02:36Speaker 3: a second time? One would have thought they paid enough
- 2:02:41Speaker 3: before to curse the costly sex and durst defender. More,
- 2:02:46Speaker 3: Can they securely trust their feeble wall, a slight partition,
- 2:02:50Speaker 3: a thin interval betwixt their fate and them when Troy
- 2:02:55Speaker 3: thou wilt by hands divine, yet perish'd by their guilt.
- 2:03:00Speaker 3: Me for once, my friends, your valiant hands to force
- 2:03:04Speaker 3: from out their lines these dustard bands, less than a
- 2:03:08Speaker 3: thousand ships will end this wall. Nor Vulcan needs his
- 2:03:12Speaker 3: fated arms prepare. Let all the Tuscans, all the Archaijans join,
- 2:03:18Speaker 3: Nor these nor those shall frustrate my design. Let them
- 2:03:22Speaker 3: not fear the treasons of the night. The robed palladium,
- 2:03:26Speaker 3: the presented flight our host shall be made in the
- 2:03:29Speaker 3: open light. No wooden engine shall their town betray fires.
- 2:03:34Speaker 3: They shall have around but fires by day. No Grecian
- 2:03:38Speaker 3: babes before their camp appear, whom Hector's arms detained to
- 2:03:43Speaker 3: the tenth tardy jeer. Now, since the sun is rolling
- 2:03:47Speaker 3: to the west, give we the silent night to needful rest.
- 2:03:51Speaker 3: Refresh your bodies and your arms. Prepare the mawn shall end.
- 2:03:56Speaker 3: The small remains aware the post of honor to Messapus falls,
- 2:04:02Speaker 3: to keep the nightly guards, to watch the walls, to
- 2:04:06Speaker 3: pitch the fires at distances around and close the Troyants
- 2:04:10Speaker 3: in their scanty ground. Twice seven Rutulian captains ready stand,
- 2:04:16Speaker 3: and twice seven hundred horse. These chiefs command, all clad
- 2:04:21Speaker 3: in shining arms, the works invest each with a radiant
- 2:04:25Speaker 3: helm and waving crest stretched at their length. They pressed
- 2:04:29Speaker 3: the grassy ground. They laughed, they sing, the jolly bowls
- 2:04:33Speaker 3: go round with lights and cheerful fires. Renewed the day
- 2:04:37Speaker 3: and passed the wakeful night in feasts and play. The
- 2:04:42Speaker 3: Troyans from about their foes beheld, and with armed legions,
- 2:04:46Speaker 3: all the vampires filled seized with the fright their gates.
- 2:04:50Speaker 3: They first explore joined works to works, with bridges tower
- 2:04:54Speaker 3: to tower, Thus all things needful for defense. Upon Minestus
- 2:04:59Speaker 3: and wives Arestus walked around, commissioned by their absent prince
- 2:05:04Speaker 3: to share the common danger and divide the care. The
- 2:05:08Speaker 3: soldiers draw their lots, and as they fall by turns
- 2:05:13Speaker 3: relieve each other on the wall nigh where the foes
- 2:05:17Speaker 3: their utmost guards advance to watch the gate. Was war
- 2:05:21Speaker 3: like nisus chance. His father Hirtachus of noble blood. His
- 2:05:26Speaker 3: mother was a huntress on the wood, and sent him
- 2:05:29Speaker 3: to the wars. Well could he bear his glance in
- 2:05:33Speaker 3: fight and dart the flying spear, but better skilled unerring
- 2:05:38Speaker 3: shafts to send beside him stood every LUs his friend,
- 2:05:43Speaker 3: every LUs then whom the troy and host. No fairer
- 2:05:46Speaker 3: face or sweeter air could boast. Scarce had the down
- 2:05:50Speaker 3: to shade his cheeks begun. One was their care and
- 2:05:54Speaker 3: their delight was one one common hazard in the war
- 2:05:58Speaker 3: they shared, and now were both by choice upon the
- 2:06:01Speaker 3: guard the nieces. Thus, or do the gods inspire this
- 2:06:06Speaker 3: swarmth or make we gods of our desire? A generous
- 2:06:10Speaker 3: ardor balls within my breast? Eager of action, enemy to rest,
- 2:06:16Speaker 3: This urges me to fight, and fires my mind to
- 2:06:19Speaker 3: leave a memorable name behind. Thou seest the foe secure?
- 2:06:24Speaker 3: How faintly shine there scatter fires the most in sleeps
- 2:06:28Speaker 3: upine along the ground, an easy conquest lie the wakeful
- 2:06:34Speaker 3: few of huming flagon ply all hush'd around. Now hear
- 2:06:39Speaker 3: what I revolve a thought unripe and scarcely, yet resolve
- 2:06:44Speaker 3: our absent prince. Both camp and council morn by message.
- 2:06:48Speaker 3: Both would hasten his return if they confer what I
- 2:06:52Speaker 3: demand on thee. For fame is recompense enough for me?
- 2:06:57Speaker 3: Methinks beneath yon Hill, I have a spy a way
- 2:07:00Speaker 3: that safely will my passage guide Evriyaalus stood listening while
- 2:07:06Speaker 3: he spoke, with love of praise and noble envy struck.
- 2:07:10Speaker 3: Then to his ardent friend expos'd his mind, all this
- 2:07:14Speaker 3: alone and leaving me behind. Am I unworthy nisus to
- 2:07:19Speaker 3: be join'd? Thinkest thou I can share of glory ye,
- 2:07:23Speaker 3: or send thee unassisted to the field. Not so, my
- 2:07:28Speaker 3: father taught my childhood arms, born in a sea and
- 2:07:31Speaker 3: bred among alarms. Nor is my youth unworthy, o my friend,
- 2:07:36Speaker 3: nor of the heav'n born hero. I attend the thing
- 2:07:39Speaker 3: called life with ease, I can disclaim and think it
- 2:07:42Speaker 3: over soul'd to purchase frame then nieus thus alas thy
- 2:07:49Speaker 3: tender years would minister new matter to my fears. So
- 2:07:52Speaker 3: may the gods who view this friendly strife restore me
- 2:07:57Speaker 3: to thy loved embrace with life. Condemn'd to pay, say
- 2:08:00Speaker 3: my wives, as sure I trust this Thy request is
- 2:08:04Speaker 3: cruel and unjust. But if some chance, as many chances
- 2:08:08Speaker 3: are and doubtful hazards in the deeds, O war, if
- 2:08:12Speaker 3: one should reach my head there, let it fall and
- 2:08:15Speaker 3: spare thy life, I would not perish. All Thy bloomy
- 2:08:20Speaker 3: youth deserves a longer day. Leave thou to mourn thy
- 2:08:24Speaker 3: love's unhappy faith, to bear my mangled body from the foe,
- 2:08:29Speaker 3: or bide back and funeral rites bestow. Or if hard
- 2:08:33Speaker 3: fortune shall those deuce deny, thou canst at least an
- 2:08:37Speaker 3: empty tomb supply. O Let not me the widow's tears renew,
- 2:08:42Speaker 3: Nor let a mother's curse my name pursue thy peers,
- 2:08:46Speaker 3: parents who, for love of thee forsak the coast of
- 2:08:50Speaker 3: friendly Cicily, her age, committing to the seas and wind,
- 2:08:55Speaker 3: when every weary matron stayed behind. To this every art
- 2:09:01Speaker 3: you plead in vain, and but protract the cause you
- 2:09:05Speaker 3: cannot gain no more delays, But haste. With that he
- 2:09:09Speaker 3: wakes the nodding watch. Each of his office takes the guard. Relieved,
- 2:09:14Speaker 3: the generous couple when to find the council at the
- 2:09:17Speaker 3: royal tent. All creatures else forgot their daily care and sleep,
- 2:09:23Speaker 3: the common gift of nature share except the troy and
- 2:09:27Speaker 3: peers a wakeful sake in knightly counsel for the in
- 2:09:31Speaker 3: dangered state. They vote a message to their absent chief
- 2:09:36Speaker 3: shew their distress, and beg a swift relief amid the camp.
- 2:09:41Speaker 3: A silent seat they chose, remote from clamor and secure
- 2:09:45Speaker 3: from foes. On their left arms their ample shields they
- 2:09:49Speaker 3: bear the right reclined upon the bending spare. Now Nisus
- 2:09:54Speaker 3: and his friend approach the guard and beg admission. Eager
- 2:09:58Speaker 3: to be heard, the affair important not to be deferred.
- 2:10:02Speaker 3: A skarni spidsam be conducted in ordering the more experienced
- 2:10:07Speaker 3: to begin the Nisus. Thus, ye, fathers, lend your ears,
- 2:10:13Speaker 3: nor judge our bold attempt beyond our years. The foe,
- 2:10:17Speaker 3: securely drenched in sleep and wine, neglect their watch. The
- 2:10:21Speaker 3: fires but thinly shine, and whether smoke in clouded vapors,
- 2:10:25Speaker 3: flies cowering the plane, and curring to the skies betwixt
- 2:10:30Speaker 3: two paths which at the gate divide close by the sea,
- 2:10:34Speaker 3: a passage we have spied, which will our way to
- 2:10:37Speaker 3: Great Ania's guide. Expect each hour to see him safe again,
- 2:10:43Speaker 3: loaded with spoils of foes in battle slain snatch we
- 2:10:47Speaker 3: the lucky minute. While we may, nor can we be
- 2:10:51Speaker 3: mistaken in the way for hunting in the vale. We
- 2:10:54Speaker 3: both have seen the rising turrets and the stream between,
- 2:10:58Speaker 3: and know the whining chorse. With every ford he seized,
- 2:11:04Speaker 3: and old Elidus took the word our country, Gods in
- 2:11:08Speaker 3: whom our trust we place will yet from ruin, save
- 2:11:12Speaker 3: the troy and grace while we behold such dauntless worth
- 2:11:16Speaker 3: appear in dawning youth and souls suvoid of fear, then
- 2:11:21Speaker 3: into tears of joy. The Father broke each in his
- 2:11:25Speaker 3: longing arms by turns Ito panted and paused, and thus
- 2:11:29Speaker 3: again he spoke, Ye, brave young men, what equal gifts
- 2:11:33Speaker 3: can we in recompense of such desert decree? The Great
- 2:11:38Speaker 3: is sure and best you can receive the gods and
- 2:11:41Speaker 3: your own conscious worth will give the rest our grateful
- 2:11:46Speaker 3: general will bestow, and young Ascarnius till his manhood, O,
- 2:11:51Speaker 3: and I, whose welfare in my father lies ascanish, added
- 2:11:55Speaker 3: by the great deities, by my dear country, by my
- 2:11:58Speaker 3: household gods, by hoary vesto strides and dark abouts, ajure
- 2:12:04Speaker 3: you both on you my fortune stands that and my
- 2:12:08Speaker 3: faith I plied into your hands, make me but happy
- 2:12:13Speaker 3: in his safe return, whose wonted presence I can only marn.
- 2:12:18Speaker 3: Your common gift shall too large goblets be of silver,
- 2:12:21Speaker 3: wrought with curious imagery and high embossed, which when old
- 2:12:26Speaker 3: Priam reign'd my conquering sire at sacked arisiba gain'd and more.
- 2:12:32Speaker 3: Two tree puts cast in antique mold, with two great
- 2:12:35Speaker 3: talents of the finest gold, beside a costly bowl engraved
- 2:12:40Speaker 3: with art, which deed O gave when first she gave
- 2:12:44Speaker 3: her heart. But if in conquer'd Italy we reign, when
- 2:12:48Speaker 3: spoils by lot, the victor shall obtain thou saw'st the
- 2:12:51Speaker 3: courser by proud turnus prest that niesus and his arms
- 2:12:55Speaker 3: and nod in crest and shield from chance exempt shall
- 2:13:00Speaker 3: be thy share. Twelve laboring slaves, twelve handmaids, young and fair,
- 2:13:05Speaker 3: all clad in rich attire and train'd with care and
- 2:13:09Speaker 3: lost a lats young field with fruitful plains and a
- 2:13:13Speaker 3: large portion of the king's domains. But thou, whose years
- 2:13:17Speaker 3: are more to mine, allied no fith my vowed affection
- 2:13:22Speaker 3: shall divide from thee herolt youth before thee mine take
- 2:13:26Speaker 3: full possession. All my soul is thine, one faith, one fame,
- 2:13:32Speaker 3: one faith, shall both attend my life's companion and my
- 2:13:36Speaker 3: bosom friend. My peace shall be committed to thy care
- 2:13:40Speaker 3: and to thy conduct, my concerns in wear. Then, thus
- 2:13:44Speaker 3: the young Evrialus replied, whatever fortune good or bad betide,
- 2:13:50Speaker 3: the same shall be my age, as now my youth.
- 2:13:53Speaker 3: No time shall find me wanting to my truth. This
- 2:13:56Speaker 3: only from your goodness let me gain, And this ungranted.
- 2:14:02Speaker 3: All rewards are vain of preams royal race. My mother
- 2:14:06Speaker 3: came and sure the best that ever bore the name,
- 2:14:10Speaker 3: whom neither Troy nor sicily could pold from me. Departing
- 2:14:15Speaker 3: but o'erspent and old my fate, she followed, ignorant of
- 2:14:20Speaker 3: this whatever danger, neither parting kiss nor Peou's blessing taken her.
- 2:14:26Speaker 3: I leave, and in this only act of all my
- 2:14:28Speaker 3: life deceived by this right hand and conscious Knight, I
- 2:14:33Speaker 3: swear my soul so sad a farewell could not bear.
- 2:14:37Speaker 3: Be you her comfort, fill my vacant place. Permit me
- 2:14:41Speaker 3: to presume so great a grace, support her age. Forsaken
- 2:14:45Speaker 3: and distressed, that hope alone will fortify my breast against
- 2:14:51Speaker 3: the worst of fortunes and of fears, he said, The
- 2:14:54Speaker 3: mood assistance melt in tears. Then thus a scarn is
- 2:14:59Speaker 3: won understruck to see that image of his filial piety,
- 2:15:04Speaker 3: so great beginnings in so green an age. Exact the
- 2:15:08Speaker 3: faith which I again engage thy mother. All the Jews
- 2:15:13Speaker 3: shall justly claim craves a had and only want the name.
- 2:15:19Speaker 3: Whatever event thy bold attempt shall have. Tis merit to
- 2:15:23Speaker 3: have borne a son so brave. Now by my head
- 2:15:26Speaker 3: a sacred oath, I swear my father used it. What
- 2:15:29Speaker 3: returning here crowned with success, I for thyself prepare that
- 2:15:34Speaker 3: if thou fail, shall thy loved mother share, he said,
- 2:15:38Speaker 3: and weeping, while he spoke the word. From his broad belt,
- 2:15:41Speaker 3: he drew a shining sword, magnificent with gold de cawn
- 2:15:47Speaker 3: mate and in an iv rescobard. She's the plate. This
- 2:15:51Speaker 3: was his gift, Great Minestus gave his friend a lion's hide,
- 2:15:55Speaker 3: his body to defend, and good a let as furnished
- 2:15:59Speaker 3: him beside with his own trusty helm of temper triede.
- 2:16:03Speaker 3: Thus armed they went. The noble troyants wait their issuing forth,
- 2:16:08Speaker 3: and followed to the gate, with prayers and vows. About
- 2:16:11Speaker 3: the rest appears a scarneus manly far beyond these years
- 2:16:15Speaker 3: and messages committed to their care, which all in winds
- 2:16:19Speaker 3: were lost and flitting air the trenches. First they passed
- 2:16:24Speaker 3: and took their way, where their proud foes, impitched pavilions,
- 2:16:28Speaker 3: lay to many fatal air, themselves were slain. They found
- 2:16:32Speaker 3: the careless hosts dispersed upon the plain, who gorged and
- 2:16:36Speaker 3: drunk with wine, supinely snore. Unharnessed chariess stand along the
- 2:16:41Speaker 3: shore amidst the wheels and rains. The goblets spy a
- 2:16:45Speaker 3: medley of debauch and war. They lie observing nieces. Should
- 2:16:50Speaker 3: his friend the side behold a conquest gained without a fight,
- 2:16:55Speaker 3: occasion offers, and I stand prepared. There lies a way.
- 2:16:59Speaker 3: Be thy upon the guard and look around, while eyes
- 2:17:02Speaker 3: securely go and due a passage through the sleeping fowl
- 2:17:07Speaker 3: softly spoke, then, striding, took his way with his drawn sword,
- 2:17:11Speaker 3: where haughty Ramnes lay his head raised high on tapestry beneath,
- 2:17:16Speaker 3: and heaving from his breast, he drew his breath. A
- 2:17:20Speaker 3: king and prophet by king Turnu's loved, but fate, by prescience,
- 2:17:24Speaker 3: cannot be remote him and his sleeping slaves. He slew
- 2:17:28Speaker 3: and spies. Where Ramus, with his rich shrit demw eyes
- 2:17:32Speaker 3: his armor bare, first, and next kills his chariitor, entrenched
- 2:17:38Speaker 3: betwixt the wheels and his loved horses, last invades their lord.
- 2:17:43Speaker 3: Full on his neck, he drives the fatal sword. The
- 2:17:46Speaker 3: gasping head flies off. A purple flood flows from the
- 2:17:50Speaker 3: trunk that welters in the blood, which by the spurning
- 2:17:54Speaker 3: heels dispersed around the bed besprinkles and bedews the ground.
- 2:18:00Speaker 3: Lamus the bold, and Lamyrus the strong, he slew, and
- 2:18:04Speaker 3: then Sirranus, fair and young, from dies in wine. The
- 2:18:08Speaker 3: youth retired to rest and puff the fume god from
- 2:18:12Speaker 3: out his breast. Even then he dreamt of drink and
- 2:18:17Speaker 3: lucky play. More lucky had it lasted till the day
- 2:18:21Speaker 3: the famished lion. Thus, with hunger, bold o'erleaps the fences
- 2:18:26Speaker 3: of the nightly fold and tears the peaceful flocks with
- 2:18:30Speaker 3: silent aid trembling. They lie and pant beneath his pow
- 2:18:35Speaker 3: Nor with less rage. Evriardus employs the wrathful sword or
- 2:18:40Speaker 3: fewer false destroys. But on the noble crowd his fury flew.
- 2:18:44Speaker 3: He fadus, Hebeasus and Ruta slow oppress'd with heavy sleep,
- 2:18:50Speaker 3: the former fell, but Ruetus, wakeful and observing all, behind
- 2:18:54Speaker 3: a spacious jar, he slink'd for fear. The fatal iron
- 2:18:58Speaker 3: found and reach'd him there, for as he rose, it
- 2:19:02Speaker 3: pierced his naked side, and reeking. Thence return'd in crimson dyed,
- 2:19:08Speaker 3: the wound pushed out the stream of wine and blood.
- 2:19:11Speaker 3: The purple soul comes floating in the flood. Now, when
- 2:19:15Speaker 3: Messapus quartered, they arrived. The fires were fainting there, and
- 2:19:20Speaker 3: just alive. The warrior horses tied in order. Fed. Nieces
- 2:19:25Speaker 3: observed the discipline and said, our eager thirst of blood
- 2:19:30Speaker 3: may both betray and see the scattered streaks of dawning
- 2:19:34Speaker 3: day foe to nocturnal thefts. No more, my friend, here,
- 2:19:39Speaker 3: let our glutted execution end a lane through slaughtered bodies,
- 2:19:44Speaker 3: we have made the bolt evrialus, though loath obeyed. Of
- 2:19:48Speaker 3: arms and arras, and of plate they find a precious load,
- 2:19:53Speaker 3: but these they leave behind. Yet fond of goaudy spoils,
- 2:19:58Speaker 3: the boy would stay to make the rich caparis on
- 2:20:01Speaker 3: his prey, which on the steed of conquered Ramnas lay.
- 2:20:06Speaker 3: Nor did his eyes less longingly behold the girdle belt
- 2:20:10Speaker 3: with nails of burnished gold. This present Sadiqus, the rich
- 2:20:16Speaker 3: bestow on Raymulus. When friendship first they vowed and absent
- 2:20:22Speaker 3: joined in hospital ties, he, dying to his heir, bequeathed
- 2:20:26Speaker 3: the prize, till by the conquering Ardian troops oppressed, he fell,
- 2:20:32Speaker 3: and they the glorious gift possessed. These glittering spoils now
- 2:20:37Speaker 3: made the victor's gain. He to his body suits, but
- 2:20:40Speaker 3: suits in vain messapus helm. He finds among rest and
- 2:20:45Speaker 3: lays his on and wears the waving crest. Proud of
- 2:20:49Speaker 3: their conquest, prouder of their prey, they leave the camp
- 2:20:54Speaker 3: and take the ready way. End of book nine, Part one.
- 2:21:01Speaker 3: Book nine A Night thir tea a day Assault Part two.
- 2:21:08Speaker 3: But far they had not passed before, they spied three
- 2:21:12Speaker 3: hundred horse with valcans.
- 2:21:14Speaker 4: For their guide.
- 2:21:15Speaker 3: The queen a Leagian too. King Turner's sent, but the
- 2:21:19Speaker 3: swift horse, the slower foot prevent and now advancing sought
- 2:21:24Speaker 3: the leader's tent. They saw the pair forthrow the doubtful
- 2:21:28Speaker 3: shade his shining helm. Every arlis betrayed, on which the moon,
- 2:21:33Speaker 3: with full reflection played, tis not for naught, cried Valsans
- 2:21:38Speaker 3: from the crowd. These men go there, then raised his
- 2:21:41Speaker 3: voice aloud, stand stand why thus in arms? And whither bent?
- 2:21:47Speaker 3: From whence? To whom? And on what errm sent Silent?
- 2:21:53Speaker 3: They scud away and hazed their flight to neighboring woods,
- 2:21:57Speaker 3: and trust themselves to night the speedy horse all passages belay,
- 2:22:02Speaker 3: and spur their smoking steeds to cross their way, and
- 2:22:06Speaker 3: watch each entrance of the winding wood. Black was the forest,
- 2:22:11Speaker 3: thick with speech. It stood horrid with fern, and intricate
- 2:22:16Speaker 3: with thorn. Few paths of human feet or tracks of
- 2:22:21Speaker 3: beasts were born the darkness of the shades. His heavy
- 2:22:25Speaker 3: prey and fear misled the younger from his way, But
- 2:22:30Speaker 3: Nisus hid the turns with happier haste and thoughtless of
- 2:22:35Speaker 3: his friend. The forest passed, and alban plains from Alba's
- 2:22:39Speaker 3: names are called where king Latinus? Then his oxen stalled
- 2:22:44Speaker 3: till turning at the length, he stood his ground and
- 2:22:48Speaker 3: missed his friend and cast his eyes around. Ah wretch,
- 2:22:52Speaker 3: she cried, where have I left behind the unhappy youth?
- 2:22:57Speaker 3: Where shall I hope to find?
- 2:22:59Speaker 5: Or what were they?
- 2:23:00Speaker 4: Take?
- 2:23:00Speaker 3: Again? He ventures back and treads the mass of his
- 2:23:05Speaker 3: former track. He winds the wood, and listening, hears the
- 2:23:09Speaker 3: noise of tramping charses and the rider's voice. The sound approached,
- 2:23:16Speaker 3: and suddenly he viewed the foes enclosing, and his friend
- 2:23:20Speaker 3: pursued for laid untaken, while he strew in vain the
- 2:23:25Speaker 3: shelter of the friendly shades to gain What should he
- 2:23:29Speaker 3: next attempt? What arms employer? What fruitless force to free
- 2:23:34Speaker 3: the captive boy? Or desperate should he rush and lose
- 2:23:37Speaker 3: his life with odds suppressed in such unequal strive? Resolved
- 2:23:43Speaker 3: at length, he pointed spare He shook, and, casting on
- 2:23:47Speaker 3: the moon a mournful look, Guardian of grows and goddess
- 2:23:51Speaker 3: of the night, Fair queen, he said, direct my dart aright,
- 2:23:57Speaker 3: if ever my peous father, for my sake did grateful
- 2:24:01Speaker 3: offerings on thy altars, make or I increased them with
- 2:24:06Speaker 3: my Sylvan's toils, and hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.
- 2:24:12Speaker 3: Give me to scatter these. Then from his ear he
- 2:24:17Speaker 3: poised and aimed and launched the trembling spear, the deadly weapon.
- 2:24:22Speaker 3: He sing from the grove, impetuous on the back of Sulmo, drove,
- 2:24:27Speaker 3: pierced his thin armor, drank his vital blood, and in
- 2:24:31Speaker 3: his body left the broken, his staggers round his eyeballs,
- 2:24:35Speaker 3: roll in death, and with short sobs he gasped away
- 2:24:39Speaker 3: his breath all stand amazed. A second javelin flies with
- 2:24:44Speaker 3: equal strength and quivers through the skies. This through thy
- 2:24:49Speaker 3: temple's targus, forced the way and in the brain pan
- 2:24:54Speaker 3: warmly barried lay fierce Walzen's foams with rage and gazing round,
- 2:25:00Speaker 3: and descried. Not him who gave the fatal wound, nor
- 2:25:04Speaker 3: knew to fix revenge, but thou, he cries, shalt pay
- 2:25:09Speaker 3: for both, And at the prisoner flies with his strong sword.
- 2:25:13Speaker 3: Then struck with deep despair that cruel sight the lover
- 2:25:18Speaker 3: could not bear, but from his cowart rushed in open view,
- 2:25:22Speaker 3: and sent his voice before him. As he flew me me,
- 2:25:26Speaker 3: he cried, turn all your swords alone on me. The
- 2:25:30Speaker 3: fact confessed the fault my own. He neither could nor
- 2:25:34Speaker 3: durst the guiltless youth. Ye moan and stars bear witness
- 2:25:39Speaker 3: to the truth. His only crime, if friendship can offend,
- 2:25:45Speaker 3: is too much love to this unhappy friend too late.
- 2:25:49Speaker 3: He speaks. The sword which fury guides, driven with full forth,
- 2:25:55Speaker 3: had pierced his tender sides down, fell the beauteous youth.
- 2:26:00Speaker 3: The jawning wound gushed out a purple stream and stained
- 2:26:05Speaker 3: the ground. His snowy neck reclines upon his breast like
- 2:26:09Speaker 3: a fair flower by the keen share, oppressed like a
- 2:26:14Speaker 3: white poppy sinking on the plain, whose heavy head is
- 2:26:18Speaker 3: overcharged with rain. Despair, enraged and vengeance justly wout drew
- 2:26:24Speaker 3: nisus headlong on the hostile crowd volsons he seeks on
- 2:26:29Speaker 3: him alone, he bends, borne back and bored by his
- 2:26:33Speaker 3: surrounding friends. Onward, he pressed and kept him still in side,
- 2:26:38Speaker 3: then whirled aloft his sword with all his might. The
- 2:26:43Speaker 3: unerring steel descended while he spoke, peered his wide mouth
- 2:26:47Speaker 3: and throw his Weazon broke, dyeing a slew and staggering
- 2:26:52Speaker 3: on the plain with swimming eyes, he sought his lover slain,
- 2:26:56Speaker 3: Then quiet on his bleeding, Bosom fell, intent in death
- 2:27:01Speaker 3: to be revenged. So well, o, happy friends, for if
- 2:27:06Speaker 3: my verse can give immortal life, your fame shall ever live.
- 2:27:12Speaker 3: Fix'd as the capital's foundation lies and spread wherever the
- 2:27:17Speaker 3: Roman eagle flies, the conquering party first divide the prey,
- 2:27:22Speaker 3: then their slain leader to the camp, convey with wonder
- 2:27:27Speaker 3: as they went. The troops were fill'd to see such
- 2:27:30Speaker 3: numbers whom so few had killed. Serrhanus Rumnus, and the
- 2:27:35Speaker 3: rest they found vast crowds, the dying and the dead surround,
- 2:27:41Speaker 3: and the yet reeking blood o'erflowes the ground. Or knew
- 2:27:46Speaker 3: the helmet which Messapus lost, but mourned a purchase that
- 2:27:50Speaker 3: so dear had cost. Now rose the ruddy morn from
- 2:27:54Speaker 3: Teeton's bed, and with the dawn of day the skies o'erspread,
- 2:28:00Speaker 3: nor long the sun his daily course withheld, but added
- 2:28:04Speaker 3: colors to the world, reveal'd when Earthly Turnus, wakening with
- 2:28:09Speaker 3: the light, all clad in armor, caused his troops to
- 2:28:13Speaker 3: fight his martial men with fierce harangue. He fired, and
- 2:28:18Speaker 3: his own ardor in their souls inspired. This done to
- 2:28:23Speaker 3: give new terrors to his foes. The heads of nieces
- 2:28:27Speaker 3: and his friends he shows, raised high on point to spears,
- 2:28:31Speaker 3: a ghastly sight, loud peals of shouts, enshoe, and barbarous delight. Meantime,
- 2:28:39Speaker 3: the Troyans run where danger calls. They lined their trenches,
- 2:28:44Speaker 3: and they manned their walls. In front, extended to the left,
- 2:28:48Speaker 3: they stood safe. Was the right surrounded by the flood,
- 2:28:53Speaker 3: but casting from their towers a frightful view, they saw
- 2:28:57Speaker 3: the faces which to well they knew, though then disguis'd
- 2:29:01Speaker 3: in death, en smear'd all o'er with filth, obscene and
- 2:29:05Speaker 3: dropping putrid gore. Soon Haste de fame through the sad city,
- 2:29:10Speaker 3: bears the mournful messages to the mother's ears. An icy
- 2:29:15Speaker 3: cold benumbs her limbs, She shakes her cheeks, the blood
- 2:29:20Speaker 3: her hand, the web forsakes. She runs the rampires round
- 2:29:25Speaker 3: amidst the war nor fears the flying darts. She rends
- 2:29:29Speaker 3: her hair and fills with loud laments the liquid air. Thus,
- 2:29:35Speaker 3: then my lov'd Evaalus appears. Thus looks the prop My
- 2:29:40Speaker 3: declining years wist on this face, my famish'd eyes I fed. Oh,
- 2:29:46Speaker 3: how unlike the living is the dead? And could'st thou
- 2:29:51Speaker 3: leave me cruel thus alone? Not one kind kiss from
- 2:29:55Speaker 3: a departing son, No look, no last adieu before he went,
- 2:29:59Speaker 3: and ilboding hour to slaughter, send cold on the ground,
- 2:30:04Speaker 3: and pressing foreign clay to large young dogs and fowls.
- 2:30:08Speaker 3: He lies a prey. Nor was I ne'er to close
- 2:30:12Speaker 3: his dying eyes, to wash his wounds, to weep his obsequies,
- 2:30:17Speaker 3: to call about his corpse, his crying friends, or spread
- 2:30:21Speaker 3: the mantle made for other ends on his dear body,
- 2:30:25Speaker 3: which I woe with care. Nor did my daily pains
- 2:30:29Speaker 3: or knightly labor spare. Where shall I find his corpse?
- 2:30:34Speaker 3: What earth sustains his trungth dismembered, and his cold remains?
- 2:30:40Speaker 3: For this alas I left my needful ease, exposed my
- 2:30:44Speaker 3: life to winds and winter seas. If any pity touched
- 2:30:49Speaker 3: Rutulian hearts here empty all your quivers, all your darts,
- 2:30:55Speaker 3: or if they fail, thou jove, conclude my woe and
- 2:31:00Speaker 3: send me thunderstructor shades below her shrieks and clamors pierce
- 2:31:06Speaker 3: the Tryan's ears, unman their courage and augment their fears.
- 2:31:11Speaker 3: Nor young Ascarnius could the sight sustain, nor old Ileonius
- 2:31:17Speaker 3: his tears restrain. But actor Enideous jointly send to bear
- 2:31:22Speaker 3: the madding mother to her tent. And now the trumpets
- 2:31:27Speaker 3: terribly from far, with rattling clangor rose the sleepy war.
- 2:31:34Speaker 3: The soldiers shouts succeed the brazen sounds, and heaven from
- 2:31:38Speaker 3: pole to pole the noise rebounds. The Volcians bare their
- 2:31:42Speaker 3: shields upon their head, and rushing forward form a moving shed.
- 2:31:48Speaker 3: These fill the ditch. Those pulled the bulwarks down, Some
- 2:31:52Speaker 3: raise the ladders, others scale the town. But where voyage
- 2:31:57Speaker 3: spaces on the walls appear or in defense, they pour
- 2:32:01Speaker 3: their forces there with pools and missive weapons. From afar,
- 2:32:06Speaker 3: the Troyans keep aloof the rising war. Taught by their
- 2:32:10Speaker 3: ten years, seek defensive fight. They rolled down ribs of rocks,
- 2:32:15Speaker 3: an unresisted white to break the pentas with a ponderous
- 2:32:20Speaker 3: blow with Yet the patient Volcians undergo, but could not
- 2:32:25Speaker 3: bear the unequal combat long For where the Troyans find
- 2:32:30Speaker 3: the thike ist strong, the ruined falls, their shutter shields
- 2:32:34Speaker 3: give way, and their crushed heads become an easy prey.
- 2:32:39Speaker 3: They shrink for fear abated of their rage, Nor longer
- 2:32:44Speaker 3: dare in a blind fight. Engage contended now to gall
- 2:32:49Speaker 3: them from below with darts and slings, and with a
- 2:32:52Speaker 3: distant bow elsewhere. Missentious terrible to view a blazing pine
- 2:33:00Speaker 3: within the trenches. Through but brave Messapus Neptun's warlike sun
- 2:33:06Speaker 3: broke down the palisades the trenches one, and allowed for
- 2:33:10Speaker 3: Ladder's calls to scale the town. Calliope, begin ye sacred nine.
- 2:33:17Speaker 3: Inspire your poet in his high design, to sing what
- 2:33:21Speaker 3: slaughter Mandy Turnus made, what souls he sent below the
- 2:33:25Speaker 3: Stygian shade, what famed the soldiers with their captain's share,
- 2:33:30Speaker 3: and the vast circuit of the fatal war? For you,
- 2:33:35Speaker 3: in singing martial facts excel you best remember and alone
- 2:33:40Speaker 3: can tell. There stood a tower amazing to the site,
- 2:33:45Speaker 3: built up of beams and of stupendous height. Art and
- 2:33:49Speaker 3: the nature of the place conspired to furnish all the
- 2:33:54Speaker 3: strength that war required to level this. The bold Italians
- 2:33:59Speaker 3: join the wary Troyans obviate their design with weighty stones
- 2:34:04Speaker 3: overwhelmed their troops below. Shoot through the loopholes, and sharp
- 2:34:10Speaker 3: javelins throw turnus the chief tossed from its thundering hand
- 2:34:15Speaker 3: against the wooden walls. A flaming brand, it struck the
- 2:34:19Speaker 3: fiery plague. The winds were high, the planks were seasoned,
- 2:34:23Speaker 3: and the timber dry contagion caught the posts. It spread along, scorched,
- 2:34:30Speaker 3: and to distance drew the scattered throng. The Troyants fled.
- 2:34:34Speaker 3: The fire pursued a maine, still gathering fast upon the
- 2:34:38Speaker 3: trembling train, till crowding to the corners of the wall,
- 2:34:42Speaker 3: down the defense, and the defenders fall. The mighty floor
- 2:34:47Speaker 3: makes Heaven itself resound. The dead and dying Troyans strew
- 2:34:53Speaker 3: the ground. The tower that followed on the fallen crew
- 2:34:57Speaker 3: wound over their heads and bare rid whom it slew.
- 2:35:02Speaker 3: Some struck upon the darts themselves had sent all the
- 2:35:05Speaker 3: same equal ruin underwent young Licus and Helener. Only escape saved,
- 2:35:13Speaker 3: how they know not from the steep be leap. Helener,
- 2:35:17Speaker 3: elder of the two by birth on one side, royal one,
- 2:35:21Speaker 3: a son of Earth, whom to the Lydian king Licumnia
- 2:35:25Speaker 3: bear and sent her boasted bastard to the war, a
- 2:35:30Speaker 3: privilege which none but freemen share. Slight, where his arms
- 2:35:35Speaker 3: a sword and silver shield, no marks of honor, charged
- 2:35:39Speaker 3: its empty field light. As he fell so light the
- 2:35:42Speaker 3: youth arose, and rising found himself amidst his foes. Nor
- 2:35:47Speaker 3: flight was left, nor hopes to force his way. Emboldened
- 2:35:51Speaker 3: by despair, he stood at bay, and like a stag
- 2:35:55Speaker 3: whom all the troops surrounds o eager huntsmen and invading hounds.
- 2:36:01Speaker 3: Resolved on death, he dissipates his fears and bounds aloft
- 2:36:06Speaker 3: against the pointed spears. So dares the youth, secure of death,
- 2:36:12Speaker 3: and throes his dying body on his thickest foes. But Leecus,
- 2:36:17Speaker 3: swifter on his feet by far, runs, doubles, winds, and
- 2:36:21Speaker 3: turns amidst the warm springs to the walls, and leaves
- 2:36:26Speaker 3: his foes behind, and snatches at the beam. He first confined,
- 2:36:30Speaker 3: looks up and leaves aloft at all the stretch, in
- 2:36:34Speaker 3: hopes the helping hand of some kind friend to reach.
- 2:36:37Speaker 3: But turnus followed hard his hunted prey. His spear had
- 2:36:41Speaker 3: almost reached him in the way short of his reins
- 2:36:45Speaker 3: and scarce a span behind fool, said the chief, Thou
- 2:36:49Speaker 3: fleeter than the wind couldst Thou presume to scape when
- 2:36:54Speaker 3: I pursue, he said, And downward by the feet he
- 2:36:58Speaker 3: drew the trembling daster. At the tug he falls, whilst
- 2:37:02Speaker 3: ruins come along rent from the smoking walls. Thus on
- 2:37:06Speaker 3: some silver swan or Timrou's hair. Jove's bird comes sousing
- 2:37:11Speaker 3: down from upper air. Her crooked talons trusts the fearful prey.
- 2:37:17Speaker 3: Then out of sight she soars and wings her way.
- 2:37:21Speaker 3: So seizes the grim wolf, the tender lamb in vain,
- 2:37:25Speaker 3: lamented by the bleating dam. Then rushing onward with a
- 2:37:30Speaker 3: barbarous cry, the troops of turners to the combat. Fly
- 2:37:34Speaker 3: the ditch with fagus filled. The daring foe tossed fire
- 2:37:38Speaker 3: brands to the steep guitarist's throw. Ilonius, as bold as Lucatius,
- 2:37:43Speaker 3: came to force the gate and feed the kindling flame.
- 2:37:48Speaker 3: Roll down the fragment of a rock so right it
- 2:37:51Speaker 3: crushed him double underneath his weight. Two more young Leager
- 2:37:55Speaker 3: and Asila slow to bend the bow. Young Leager betternw
- 2:38:00Speaker 3: Hasila's best the pointed javelin through brave Kinius laid Ortigius
- 2:38:05Speaker 3: on the plain. The victor Kinus was by Turnus slain
- 2:38:10Speaker 3: by the same hand. Clonius and Etu's fall. Sagar and
- 2:38:15Speaker 3: ed are standing on the wall from Karpis's arms, his fate.
- 2:38:19Speaker 3: Privernus found hurt by Tamilah first, but slight the wound,
- 2:38:24Speaker 3: his shield thrown by. To mitigate the smart he clapped
- 2:38:28Speaker 3: his hand upon the wounded part. The second shaft came
- 2:38:32Speaker 3: swift and unespied and pierced his hand and nailed it
- 2:38:37Speaker 3: to his side, transfixed his breathing lungs and beating heart.
- 2:38:41Speaker 3: The soul came issuing out and hissed against the dart.
- 2:38:46Speaker 3: The sun of Arkans shone amid the rest. In glittering armor,
- 2:38:51Speaker 3: and a purple vest fair was his face, his eyes
- 2:38:55Speaker 3: inspiring love bred by his father in the Martian growl,
- 2:39:00Speaker 3: where the fat altars of Palichu's flame and send in
- 2:39:03Speaker 3: arms to purchase early fame him. When he spied from far,
- 2:39:08Speaker 3: the Tuscan king laid by the lance and took him
- 2:39:11Speaker 3: to the sling thrice well. The throng around his head
- 2:39:15Speaker 3: and through the heated lead half melted as it flew,
- 2:39:19Speaker 3: it pierced his hollow temples and his brain. The youth
- 2:39:23Speaker 3: came tumbling down and spurned the plain. Then young Ascanius,
- 2:39:28Speaker 3: who before this day was wont in woods to shoot
- 2:39:31Speaker 3: the savage prey, first bent in martial strife the twanging bow,
- 2:39:36Speaker 3: and exercised against a human fowl. With this bereft Dumanus
- 2:39:41Speaker 3: of his life, who Turnu's younger sister took to wife,
- 2:39:45Speaker 3: proud of his realm and of his royal bride, vaunting
- 2:39:49Speaker 3: before his troops and lengthened with a stride in these
- 2:39:53Speaker 3: insulting terms. The Troyans he defied twice conquered cowards. Now
- 2:40:00Speaker 3: your shame is shown coop'd up a second time within
- 2:40:04Speaker 3: your town. Who dare not issue forth in open field?
- 2:40:08Speaker 3: But hold your walls before you for a shield. Thus
- 2:40:12Speaker 3: threat you war, Thus our alliance force what God's what madness?
- 2:40:18Speaker 3: Heather stirred your course. You shall not find the sons
- 2:40:22Speaker 3: of arthurs here, nor need the frauds of sly ulysses.
- 2:40:26Speaker 3: Fear strong from the craddle of a sturdy brood. We
- 2:40:31Speaker 3: bear our new born infants to the flood. There bathe
- 2:40:36Speaker 3: amid the stream, Our boys we hold with winter, hardened
- 2:40:41Speaker 3: and inured to cold. They wake before the day to
- 2:40:44Speaker 3: range the wood kill ere. They eat nor taste unconquered food.
- 2:40:50Speaker 3: No sports, but what belonged to war. They know to
- 2:40:53Speaker 3: break the stubborn colts, to bend the bow. Our youth
- 2:40:58Speaker 3: of labor, patient, earn their breed hardly. They work with
- 2:41:02Speaker 3: frugal diet, fed from plows and harrows. Sent to seek renown.
- 2:41:08Speaker 3: They fight in fields and storm the shaken town. No
- 2:41:12Speaker 3: part of life from toils of war is free. No
- 2:41:15Speaker 3: change in age or difference in degree. We plow until
- 2:41:21Speaker 3: in arms our oxen feel instead of goads, the spur
- 2:41:25Speaker 3: and pointed steel. The inverted lance makes for us in
- 2:41:30Speaker 3: the plain. Even time that changes all, yet changes us
- 2:41:34Speaker 3: in vain. The body, not the mind, nor can control
- 2:41:40Speaker 3: the immortal vigor, or obey the soul. Our helms defend
- 2:41:44Speaker 3: the young, disguise the gray. We live by plunder and
- 2:41:48Speaker 3: delight in prey. Your vests embroidered with rich purple, shine,
- 2:41:53Speaker 3: In sloth you glory and in dances join. Your vests
- 2:41:58Speaker 3: have sweeping sleeves with female pride. Your turbans underneath your
- 2:42:04Speaker 3: chins are tied. Go phrigiance to your Dindymus. Again, go
- 2:42:09Speaker 3: less than women in the shape of men, go mix'd
- 2:42:14Speaker 3: with eunuchs in the mother's rights, where with unequal sound
- 2:42:18Speaker 3: the flute invites sing, dance, and howl. By turns in
- 2:42:23Speaker 3: DA's shade. Resign the war to men who know the
- 2:42:27Speaker 3: martial trade. This foul reproach, as Carnus could not hear
- 2:42:33Speaker 3: with patience or avowed revenge forbear. At the full stretch
- 2:42:39Speaker 3: of both his hands, he drew and almost joined the
- 2:42:42Speaker 3: horns of the tough yew. But first before the throne
- 2:42:46Speaker 3: of Jove he stood, and thus, with lifted hands invoked
- 2:42:50Speaker 3: the God my first attempt, Great Jupiter succeed an annual
- 2:42:56Speaker 3: offering in thy grow shall blead a snow white stair
- 2:43:00Speaker 3: before thy altar. Lead, who likes his mother, bears aloft
- 2:43:04Speaker 3: his head, butts with a threatening brows and bellowing, stands
- 2:43:09Speaker 3: and dares the fight, and spurns the yellow sands. Joe
- 2:43:14Speaker 3: bowed the heavens and lent a gracious air, and thundered
- 2:43:18Speaker 3: on the left amidst the clear sounded at once the
- 2:43:22Speaker 3: bow and swiftly flies the feathered death and hisses through
- 2:43:26Speaker 3: the skies, the steels through both his temples forced the
- 2:43:31Speaker 3: way extended on the ground. Numanos lay go now main
- 2:43:36Speaker 3: boaster and true valor. Scorn the Phrigins twice subdued, Yet
- 2:43:41Speaker 3: make this third return. Ascarno said, no more the Troy,
- 2:43:46Speaker 3: and shake the heavens with shouting and new vigor. Take Apollo,
- 2:43:52Speaker 3: then bestrode a golden cloud to view the feats of
- 2:43:56Speaker 3: arms and fighting crowd. And thus the beard is victory.
- 2:44:00Speaker 3: He bespoke aloud, Advance, illustrous youth, increase in fame and
- 2:44:05Speaker 3: wide from east to west. Extend thy name, offspring of
- 2:44:10Speaker 3: God's thyself, and Rome shall owe to thee a race
- 2:44:14Speaker 3: of demi gods.
- 2:44:15Speaker 1: Below.
- 2:44:16Speaker 3: This is the way to heaven. The powers divine from
- 2:44:20Speaker 3: this beginning date the Julian line to thee, to them
- 2:44:25Speaker 3: and their victorious heirs. The conquer'd war is due, and
- 2:44:29Speaker 3: the vast world is theirs. Troy is too narrow for
- 2:44:33Speaker 3: thy name, he said, and plunging downward, shot his radiant
- 2:44:37Speaker 3: head dispelled the breathing air that broke his flight. Shorn
- 2:44:42Speaker 3: of his beams, a man to mortal sight, old bootus
- 2:44:46Speaker 3: form me to and keys squire now left to rule
- 2:44:50Speaker 3: Ascarnius by his sire, his wrinkled visage, and his hoary hairs,
- 2:44:55Speaker 3: his meanest habit, and his arms he wears when thus
- 2:45:00Speaker 3: salutes the boy to forward for his years, soufiicit thee
- 2:45:05Speaker 3: thy father's worthy son. The warlike Christ, thou hast already won.
- 2:45:10Speaker 3: The God of archers gives thy youth a part of
- 2:45:14Speaker 3: his own praise, nor envies equal art. Now tempt the
- 2:45:19Speaker 3: war no more, he said, and flew obscure in air,
- 2:45:22Speaker 3: and vanish'd from their view. The Troyans, by his arms
- 2:45:27Speaker 3: their patron, know and hear the twanging of his heavenly bow.
- 2:45:32Speaker 3: Then Dutias force the us and foibus name to keep
- 2:45:37Speaker 3: from fight. The youth to fond of fame, undaunted, they
- 2:45:42Speaker 3: themselves no danger, shun from wall to wall. The shouts
- 2:45:46Speaker 3: and clamors run, They bend their boughs, They whirl their
- 2:45:50Speaker 3: slings around. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground,
- 2:45:55Speaker 3: and helms and shields and rattling arms resound. The combat
- 2:46:00Speaker 3: thickens like the storm that flies from westward. When the
- 2:46:04Speaker 3: showery kids arise, or pattering hail comes pouring on the main.
- 2:46:09Speaker 3: When Jupiter descends in hardened rain or bellowing clouds, burst
- 2:46:14Speaker 3: with a stormy sound, and with an armed winter's through
- 2:46:18Speaker 3: the ground pondrus and Beatsya's thunderbolts of war, whom hiera
- 2:46:23Speaker 3: to bold alcannor bear on DA's top, to youth of
- 2:46:28Speaker 3: height and size, like first that on their mother mountain rise,
- 2:46:33Speaker 3: presuming on their force the gates unbar and of their
- 2:46:37Speaker 3: own accord in white the war with fates averse against
- 2:46:42Speaker 3: the king's command. Armed on the right and on the left,
- 2:46:45Speaker 3: they stand and flank the passage, shining steel they wear,
- 2:46:50Speaker 3: and waving crests above their heads, appear. Thus two tall
- 2:46:55Speaker 3: oaks that powdus banks adorn, lift up to heaven, their
- 2:46:59Speaker 3: leaf heads unshorn and overpressed with nature's heavy load, danced
- 2:47:05Speaker 3: to the whistling winds, and at each other nod inflows
- 2:47:09Speaker 3: a tide of latians. When they see the gates had
- 2:47:13Speaker 3: opened and the passage free, bold coarisons with rushed to Mars,
- 2:47:19Speaker 3: rushing on equicolus, that in bright armor shone and haymon first,
- 2:47:25Speaker 3: but soon repulsed, they fly, or in the well defended
- 2:47:29Speaker 3: past they die. These with successor fired, and those with
- 2:47:34Speaker 3: rage and each unequal terms at length, engage drawn from
- 2:47:39Speaker 3: their lines, and issume on the plain. The Troyan's hand
- 2:47:43Speaker 3: to hand the fight maintain fierce turners in another quarterfallt
- 2:47:48Speaker 3: when suddenly the unhoped for news was brought. The foes
- 2:47:52Speaker 3: had left the fastness of their place, prevailed in fight,
- 2:47:56Speaker 3: and had his men in chase. He quits the attack,
- 2:47:59Speaker 3: and to prevent their fate, runs where the giant brothers
- 2:48:03Speaker 3: guard the gate. The first he met Antipathus, the brave,
- 2:48:08Speaker 3: but base begotten on a tebon slave surded on sun.
- 2:48:12Speaker 3: He slew the deadly dart, found passage through his breast,
- 2:48:17Speaker 3: and pierced his heart. Fix'd in the wound. The Italian
- 2:48:21Speaker 3: corner stood, warmed in his lungs and in his vital blood. Aphidnus,
- 2:48:27Speaker 3: next an Ermantus Dyes and Meropus, and the gigantic size Obetzias,
- 2:48:34Speaker 3: threatening with his ardent eyes. Not by the feeble dart
- 2:48:38Speaker 3: he fell opprest a dart were lost within that roomy breast,
- 2:48:42Speaker 3: but from a knotted lance, large heavy strong, which roared
- 2:48:47Speaker 3: like thunder as it whirl'd along. Not two bull hides
- 2:48:51Speaker 3: the impetuous force withhold nor coat of double mail with
- 2:48:55Speaker 3: scales of gold down sunk the monster bulk and pressed
- 2:49:00Speaker 3: the ground, his arms and clatching shield on the vast
- 2:49:04Speaker 3: body sound not with less ruin than the by and
- 2:49:08Speaker 3: mole raised on the seas, the surges to control at
- 2:49:13Speaker 3: once comes tumbling down the rocky wall, prone to the deep.
- 2:49:17Speaker 3: The stone's disjointed fall of the vast pile, the scattered
- 2:49:22Speaker 3: ocean flies, black sands, discolored, froth and mingled mud arise.
- 2:49:28Speaker 3: The frighted billows roll and seek the shores, then trembles Prokita,
- 2:49:34Speaker 3: Then Ischia roars. Tefeus, thrown beneath by Joe's command, astonished
- 2:49:40Speaker 3: at the floor that shakes the land, soon shifts his
- 2:49:44Speaker 3: weary side and scarce awake with wonder fields, the weight
- 2:49:49Speaker 3: pressed lighter on his back, the warrior god. The Latian
- 2:49:53Speaker 3: troops inspired news strung their sinews and their courage fired,
- 2:49:59Speaker 3: but chills the troy in hearts with cold affright. Then
- 2:50:02Speaker 3: black despair precipitates their flight. When Panderus beheld his brother killed,
- 2:50:09Speaker 3: the town with fear and wild confusion filled, he turns
- 2:50:13Speaker 3: the hinges of the heavy gate with both his hands
- 2:50:17Speaker 3: and adds his shoulders to the way some happy friends
- 2:50:21Speaker 3: within the walls enclosed, the rest shut out to certain death,
- 2:50:25Speaker 3: exposed fool as he was, and frantic in his care
- 2:50:30Speaker 3: to admit young Turner's and include the war he thrust
- 2:50:35Speaker 3: amid the crowds, securely bold like a fierce tiger, penned
- 2:50:39Speaker 3: amid the fold too latest placing bler. They descry and
- 2:50:44Speaker 3: sparkling fires that shoot from either eye, his mighty members
- 2:50:49Speaker 3: and his ample breast, his ratting armor, and his crimson crest.
- 2:50:55Speaker 3: Far from that hated face, the tryumph's flee. All but
- 2:50:59Speaker 3: the fool was sought this destiny. Mad Panderas steps forth
- 2:51:03Speaker 3: with vengeance, woud forbeats yus death, and threatens thus aloud.
- 2:51:09Speaker 3: These are not Ardea's walls nor his The town Armata
- 2:51:14Speaker 3: proffers with Lavina's crown. Tis hostile earth. You tread of
- 2:51:19Speaker 3: hope breft. No means of safe return by flight are
- 2:51:24Speaker 3: left to whom, with countenance, calm and soul sedate. Thus turns,
- 2:51:29Speaker 3: then begin and try thy fate. My message to the
- 2:51:34Speaker 3: ghost of Priambert, tell him a new Achilles sent thee
- 2:51:38Speaker 3: there a lance of tough ground ash that try and
- 2:51:42Speaker 3: through rough in the wind and knotted as it grew
- 2:51:46Speaker 3: with his full force, he whirl'd it first around, but
- 2:51:49Speaker 3: the soft jealing air received a wong Imperial June turn'd
- 2:51:54Speaker 3: the course before and fix the wandering weapon in the door.
- 2:52:00Speaker 3: But hope not thou, said turnus, when eyes strike to
- 2:52:04Speaker 3: shun thy fate. Our force is not alike nor thy steel,
- 2:52:08Speaker 3: temper'd by the Lemnian God. Then, rising on his outmost stretch,
- 2:52:13Speaker 3: he stood and aim'd from high. The full descending blow
- 2:52:17Speaker 3: cleaves the broad front and bared his cheeks in two
- 2:52:22Speaker 3: down sinks the giant with a thundering sound. His ponderous
- 2:52:26Speaker 3: limbs oppressed the trembling ground. Blood brains and foam gush
- 2:52:31Speaker 3: from the gaping wound, scalped face and shoulders. The keen
- 2:52:35Speaker 3: steel divides, and the shard visage hangs on equal sides.
- 2:52:41Speaker 3: The Troyans fly from their approaching fate and had the
- 2:52:44Speaker 3: victor then secured the gape and to his troops without
- 2:52:48Speaker 3: unclosed the bars. One lucky day had ended all his wars,
- 2:52:54Speaker 3: but boiling youth and blind desire of blood pushed his
- 2:52:58Speaker 3: fury to pursue the crowd ham string behind unhappy gigistied.
- 2:53:05Speaker 3: Then Phalaris is added to his side, the pointed javelins
- 2:53:09Speaker 3: from the dead he drew, and their friend's arms against
- 2:53:13Speaker 3: their fellows. Through strong Harley stands in vain, weak Fleagus flies,
- 2:53:19Speaker 3: Saturnia still at hand, new force and fire supplies. Then
- 2:53:23Speaker 3: Harlius Britannis al kaanderfall engaged against the foes who scaled
- 2:53:29Speaker 3: the wall.
- 2:53:31Speaker 1: But whom they.
- 2:53:31Speaker 3: Feared without they found within. But whom they feared without
- 2:53:35Speaker 3: they found within. At last, though late by Lyncaeus he
- 2:53:40Speaker 3: was seen. He calls new succors and assaults the prince.
- 2:53:44Speaker 3: But weak is force and vain is their defense. Turned
- 2:53:48Speaker 3: to the right his sword, the hero drew, and at
- 2:53:51Speaker 3: one blow the bold aggressor slew. He joins the neck,
- 2:53:56Speaker 3: and with a stroke so strong the helm flies off
- 2:54:00Speaker 3: and bears the head along Next him the huntsman Amicus,
- 2:54:05Speaker 3: he killed in darts, in vencomd and in poisons kill'd.
- 2:54:10Speaker 3: Then Cletus fell beneath his fatal spear, and Creatius, whom
- 2:54:15Speaker 3: the muses held so dear, He fought with courage, and
- 2:54:19Speaker 3: he sung the fight. Arms were his business, verses his delight.
- 2:54:24Speaker 3: The troy and chiefs behold with rage and grief their
- 2:54:28Speaker 3: slaughtered friends and hasten their relief. Bold Menestus rallies first
- 2:54:34Speaker 3: the broken train, whom braves Serestus and his troops sustain
- 2:54:39Speaker 3: to save the living and revenge the dead. Against one
- 2:54:43Speaker 3: warrior's arms, all Troy they led, Oh, void of sense
- 2:54:48Speaker 3: and courage, Minestus cried, where can you hope your coward
- 2:54:53Speaker 3: heads to hide?
- 2:54:54Speaker 2: Ah?
- 2:54:55Speaker 3: Where beyond these rampires can you run? One man? And
- 2:55:00Speaker 3: in your camp enclosed you shun? Shall then a single
- 2:55:04Speaker 3: sword such slaughter bows and pass unpunish'd from a numerous host,
- 2:55:11Speaker 3: forsaking honor and renouncing fame, your God's, your country, and
- 2:55:16Speaker 3: your king your shame. This just reproach their virtue does excite?
- 2:55:21Speaker 3: They stand, They join, They thicken to the fight. Now
- 2:55:25Speaker 3: turnus doubts, and yet disdains to yield, but with slow
- 2:55:29Speaker 3: paces measures back the field and inches to the walls,
- 2:55:33Speaker 3: where tibers tied washing the camp defends the weaker side.
- 2:55:38Speaker 3: The more he loses, they advance the more, and tread
- 2:55:42Speaker 3: in every step he trod. Before they shout, they bear
- 2:55:47Speaker 3: him back, and whom by might they cannot conquer. They
- 2:55:51Speaker 3: oppress with weight as compassed with a wood of spears.
- 2:55:56Speaker 3: Around the lordly lion still maintains his crist grins horrible,
- 2:56:01Speaker 3: retires and turns again, threats his distended paws and shakes
- 2:56:07Speaker 3: his mane. He loses. While in vain, he presses on,
- 2:56:11Speaker 3: nor will his courage let him dare to run, So
- 2:56:15Speaker 3: Turner's fares, and, unresolved of flight, moves tardy back and
- 2:56:20Speaker 3: just recedes from fight, yet twice, enraged the combat he
- 2:56:24Speaker 3: renews twice breaks, and twice his broken foes pursues. But
- 2:56:29Speaker 3: now they swarm, and with fresh troops supplied, come rolling
- 2:56:34Speaker 3: on and rush from every side. Nor Juno, who sustained
- 2:56:38Speaker 3: his arms before, dares with new strength sufficce the exhausted
- 2:56:43Speaker 3: store for Joe, with sour commands, sent Iris down to
- 2:56:49Speaker 3: force the invader from the frighted town. With labor spent,
- 2:56:54Speaker 3: no longer can he wed with heavy fansion or sustain
- 2:56:57Speaker 3: the sheield overwhelmed with arts which from afar they fling
- 2:57:02Speaker 3: the weapons round his hollow temple string. His golden helm
- 2:57:06Speaker 3: gives way with stony blows, battered and flat and beaten
- 2:57:11Speaker 3: to his brows, his crest is rashed away, his ample
- 2:57:15Speaker 3: shield is falsified and round with javelins filled. The foe
- 2:57:21Speaker 3: now faint, the triymphs overwhelm, and Minestus lays hard load
- 2:57:26Speaker 3: upon his helm. Six sweet succeeds. He drops at every
- 2:57:30Speaker 3: pore with driving dust. His cheeks are pasted o'er shorter
- 2:57:35Speaker 3: and shorter. Every gasp he takes, and vain efforts and
- 2:57:39Speaker 3: hurtless blows he makes, plunged in the flood, and may
- 2:57:43Speaker 3: the waters fly the yell of God. The welcome burthen
- 2:57:48Speaker 3: boar and whipped the sweet and washed away the gore.
- 2:57:52Speaker 3: Then gently wafts him to the farther coast and sends
- 2:57:56Speaker 3: him safe to cheer his anxious host. End of book nine, Book.
- 2:58:04Speaker 4: Ten, The Death of Princes, Part one. The gates of
- 2:58:10Speaker 4: heaven unfold. Jove summons all the gods to counsel in
- 2:58:15Speaker 4: the common hall. Sublimely seated, he surveys from far the fields,
- 2:58:19Speaker 4: the camp, the fortune of the war, and all the
- 2:58:22Speaker 4: inferior world, from first to last the sovereign senate in
- 2:58:27Speaker 4: degrees are placed. Then thus the Almighty Sire began ye gods,
- 2:58:34Speaker 4: natives or denizens of blessed abodes. From whence these murmurs,
- 2:58:38Speaker 4: and this change of mind, this backward fate, from what
- 2:58:41Speaker 4: was first designed? Why this protracted war, when my commands
- 2:58:45Speaker 4: pronounced a peace and gave the Latin lance what fear
- 2:58:49Speaker 4: or hope on either part divides our heavens and arms
- 2:58:52Speaker 4: our powers on different sides. A lawful time of war
- 2:58:56Speaker 4: at length will come. Nor need your haste anticipate the doom.
- 2:59:00Speaker 4: When Carthage shall contend the world with Rome, shall force
- 2:59:04Speaker 4: the rigid rocks and alpine chains, and like a flood
- 2:59:07Speaker 4: come pouring on the plains. Then is your time for
- 2:59:10Speaker 4: faction and debate, for partial favor and permitted hate. Let
- 2:59:15Speaker 4: now your immature dissension, cease, sit quiet, and compose your
- 2:59:20Speaker 4: souls to peace. Thus, Jupiter in few unfolds the charge.
- 2:59:26Speaker 4: But lovely Venus thus replies, at large, Oh power, immense
- 2:59:31Speaker 4: eternal energy. For to what else protection can we fly?
- 2:59:35Speaker 4: Seest thou the proud Rutulians, How they dare in fields
- 2:59:39Speaker 4: unpunished and insult my care. How lofty Turner's vaunts amid
- 2:59:44Speaker 4: his train in shining arms triumphant on the plain. Even
- 2:59:49Speaker 4: in their lines and trenches they contend and scarce their walls.
- 2:59:52Speaker 4: The Trojan troops defend. The town is filled with slaughter
- 2:59:56Speaker 4: and afloats with a red deluge their increasing motes. Eneus
- 3:00:02Speaker 4: ignorant and far from Thence has left a camp exposed
- 3:00:05Speaker 4: without defense, this endless outrage, shall they still sustain? Shall
- 3:00:11Speaker 4: Troy renewed be forced and fired again? A second siege
- 3:00:16Speaker 4: my banished issue fears, and a new Diomede in arms appears,
- 3:00:22Speaker 4: one more audacious mortal will be found, And I, thy daughter,
- 3:00:26Speaker 4: wait another wound. Yet, if with fates averse, without thy
- 3:00:31Speaker 4: leave the Latin lands, my progeny receive, bear they the
- 3:00:35Speaker 4: pains of violated law, and thy protection from their aid withdraw.
- 3:00:40Speaker 4: But if the gods their sure success, foretell if those
- 3:00:44Speaker 4: of Heaven consent with those of Hell to promise Italy,
- 3:00:47Speaker 4: Who dare debate the power of Jove or fix another fate?
- 3:00:52Speaker 4: What should I tell of tempests on the main of
- 3:00:55Speaker 4: earless usurping Neptune's reign of Iris, sent with Bacan alien
- 3:01:00Speaker 4: heat to inspire the Matrons and destroy the fleet. Now
- 3:01:04Speaker 4: Juno to the Stydian sky, descends solicits Hell for aid
- 3:01:09Speaker 4: and arms the fiends that new example wanted. Yet above
- 3:01:14Speaker 4: an act that well became the wife of Jove. Alecto
- 3:01:18Speaker 4: raised by her with rage inflames, the peaceful bosoms of
- 3:01:21Speaker 4: the Latin dames imperial sway, no more exalts my mind
- 3:01:27Speaker 4: such hopes I had, indeed, while Heaven was kind. Now
- 3:01:31Speaker 4: let my happier foes possess my place, whom Jove prefers
- 3:01:35Speaker 4: before the Trojan race, and conquer they whom you with
- 3:01:39Speaker 4: conquest grace, since you can spare from all your wide command,
- 3:01:44Speaker 4: no spot of earth, no hospitable land, which may my
- 3:01:48Speaker 4: wandering fugitives receive, Since haughty Juno will not give you leave, Then, Father,
- 3:01:55Speaker 4: if I still may use that name by ruined Troy
- 3:01:59Speaker 4: yet smoke from the flame, I beg you, let Ascanius,
- 3:02:03Speaker 4: by my care, be freed from danger, and dismiss the
- 3:02:07Speaker 4: war inglorious, let him live without a crown. The Father
- 3:02:11Speaker 4: may be cast on coasts unknown, struggling with fate. But
- 3:02:16Speaker 4: let me save the sun mine is clithera mine, the
- 3:02:20Speaker 4: Cyprian towers in those recesses, and those sacred bowers obscurely.
- 3:02:26Speaker 4: Let him rest his right, resigned to promised empire and
- 3:02:30Speaker 4: his Julian line. Then, Carthage, may the Arsonian towns destroy,
- 3:02:35Speaker 4: nor fear the race of a rejected boy. What profits
- 3:02:40Speaker 4: it my son to escape the fire, armed with his
- 3:02:43Speaker 4: gods and loaded with his sire, to pass the perils
- 3:02:47Speaker 4: of the seas and wind evade the Greeks and leave
- 3:02:50Speaker 4: the war behind to reach the Italian shores. If after
- 3:02:54Speaker 4: all our second Pergamus is doomed to fall, much better
- 3:03:00Speaker 4: had he curbed his high desires and hovered o'er his
- 3:03:04Speaker 4: ill extinguished fires to Simulis banks the fugitives restore and
- 3:03:09Speaker 4: give them back to war and all the woes before.
- 3:03:14Speaker 4: Deep indignation swelled Saturnia's heart, And must I own? She said,
- 3:03:20Speaker 4: my secret? Smart, what with more decence were in silence kept?
- 3:03:25Speaker 4: And but for this unjust reproach had slept? Did God
- 3:03:30Speaker 4: or man your favorite son advise with war unhoped the
- 3:03:33Speaker 4: Latians to surprise by fate, you boast, and by the
- 3:03:38Speaker 4: God's decree he left his native land for Italy. Confess
- 3:03:43Speaker 4: the truth by mad Cassandra, more than heaven inspired he
- 3:03:47Speaker 4: sought of foreign shore? Did I persuade to trust his
- 3:03:51Speaker 4: second troy to the raw conduct of a beardless boy
- 3:03:55Speaker 4: with walls unfinished, which himself forsakes than through the waves
- 3:03:59Speaker 4: the voyage takes. When have I urged him meanly to
- 3:04:04Speaker 4: demand the Tuscan aid and arm a quiet land. Did
- 3:04:08Speaker 4: I or Iris give this mad advice, or made the
- 3:04:13Speaker 4: fool himself the fatal choice? You think it hard? The
- 3:04:17Speaker 4: Latians should destroy with swords your Trojans, and with fires
- 3:04:21Speaker 4: your troy. Hard and unjust. Indeed for men to draw
- 3:04:27Speaker 4: their native air, nor take a foreign law that Turnus
- 3:04:32Speaker 4: has permitted still to live, to whom his birth a
- 3:04:35Speaker 4: god and goddess give. But yet is just and lawful
- 3:04:40Speaker 4: for your line to drive their fields, and forsewith fraud
- 3:04:43Speaker 4: to join realms not your own. Among your clans, divide,
- 3:04:48Speaker 4: and from the bridegroom tear the promised bride petition, while
- 3:04:53Speaker 4: you public arms prepare, pretend to peace, and yet provoke
- 3:04:57Speaker 4: a war. Twas given to you, your darling son, to shroud,
- 3:05:02Speaker 4: to draw the dustard from the fighting crowd, and for
- 3:05:06Speaker 4: a man of tender an empty cloud from flaming fleets.
- 3:05:10Speaker 4: You turned the fire away and changed the ships to
- 3:05:13Speaker 4: daughters of the sea. But is my crime the Queen
- 3:05:18Speaker 4: of Heaven of friends, if she presumed to save her
- 3:05:21Speaker 4: suffering friends, Your son, not knowing what his foes decree,
- 3:05:27Speaker 4: you say, is absent. Absent Let him be Yours is
- 3:05:32Speaker 4: Cythera yours, the Cyprian towers, the soft recesses, and the
- 3:05:36Speaker 4: sacred bowers. Why do you, then these needless arms, prepare
- 3:05:41Speaker 4: and thus provoke a people prone to war? Did I
- 3:05:44Speaker 4: with fire the trojan town to face or hinder from
- 3:05:48Speaker 4: return your exiled race with either cause of mischief or
- 3:05:52Speaker 4: the man whose lawless lust the fatal war began? Think
- 3:05:57Speaker 4: on whose faith the adulterous youth relied, who promised? Who
- 3:06:01Speaker 4: procured the spartan bride? When all the United States of
- 3:06:05Speaker 4: Greece combined to purge the world of the perfidious kind,
- 3:06:09Speaker 4: then was your time to fear the trojan fate. Your
- 3:06:13Speaker 4: quarrels and complaints are now too late. Thus, Duno murmurs
- 3:06:19Speaker 4: rise with mixed applause, just as they favor or dislike
- 3:06:22Speaker 4: the cause, so winds, when yet unfledged in woods, they
- 3:06:26Speaker 4: lie in whispers, first their tender voices try then issue
- 3:06:31Speaker 4: on the main with bellowing rage and storms to trembling
- 3:06:34Speaker 4: mariners presage. Then thus to both, replied the imperial God,
- 3:06:40Speaker 4: who shakes Heaven's axles with his awful nod when he begins.
- 3:06:44Speaker 4: The silent Senate stand with reverence, listening to the dread
- 3:06:47Speaker 4: command the clouds dispel, the winds their breath restrain, and
- 3:06:52Speaker 4: the hushed waves lie flattered on the main celestials. Your
- 3:06:57Speaker 4: attentive ears incline. Since said the God, the Trojans must
- 3:07:02Speaker 4: not join in wished alliance with the Latin line, since
- 3:07:05Speaker 4: endless jarrings and immortal hate tend but to discompose our
- 3:07:10Speaker 4: happy state. The war henceforward be resigned to fate. Each
- 3:07:14Speaker 4: to his proper fortune, stand or fall, equal and unconcerned.
- 3:07:18Speaker 4: I look on all Retulians Trojans are the same to me,
- 3:07:23Speaker 4: and both shall draw the lots their fates decree. Let
- 3:07:27Speaker 4: these assault, if fortune be their friend, and if she
- 3:07:29Speaker 4: favors those, let those defend. The fates will find their way.
- 3:07:35Speaker 4: The thunder said, and shook the sacred honors of his head,
- 3:07:38Speaker 4: attesting sticks the inviolable flood, and the black regions of
- 3:07:42Speaker 4: his brother God tremble the poles of heaven and Earth,
- 3:07:47Speaker 4: confessed the Nod. This end, the Sessions had the Senate
- 3:07:52Speaker 4: rise and to his palace wait their sovereign through the skies. Meantime,
- 3:07:58Speaker 4: intent upon their siege, the Boes within their walls, the
- 3:08:01Speaker 4: Trojan host inclose. They wound they kill. They watch at
- 3:08:05Speaker 4: every gate, renew the fires, and urge their happy fate.
- 3:08:10Speaker 4: The oneans wish in vain their wonted chief. Hopeless of flight,
- 3:08:15Speaker 4: more hopeless of relief. Thin on the towers they stand,
- 3:08:19Speaker 4: and even those few a feeble, fainting and dejected crew.
- 3:08:24Speaker 4: Yet in the face of danger some there stood the
- 3:08:28Speaker 4: two bold brothers of Sarpedon's blood, Asseus and Acmon, both
- 3:08:33Speaker 4: the Asarachi young Hemon, and though young, resolved to die.
- 3:08:39Speaker 4: With these were Clarus and Thymoites, joined Tibris and Castor,
- 3:08:43Speaker 4: both of Lycian kind. From Acmon's hands a rolling stone
- 3:08:47Speaker 4: there came, so large it half deserved a mountain's name. Strong, sinewed,
- 3:08:52Speaker 4: was the youth and big of bone. His brother Nestus
- 3:08:56Speaker 4: could not more have done, or the great father of
- 3:08:58Speaker 4: the intrepid son. Some firebrands throw, some flights of arrows send,
- 3:09:04Speaker 4: and some with darts, and some with stones defend amid
- 3:09:09Speaker 4: the press appears the beauteous boy, the care of Venus
- 3:09:13Speaker 4: and the hope of Troy. His lovely face unarmed, his
- 3:09:17Speaker 4: head was bare in ringlets o'er his shoulders hung his hair,
- 3:09:21Speaker 4: his forehead circled with a diadem, distinguished from the crowd.
- 3:09:25Speaker 4: He shines a gem in chaste, in gold or polished ivory,
- 3:09:29Speaker 4: set amidst the meaner foil of sable jet nor Ismarus
- 3:09:35Speaker 4: was wanting to the war, directing pointed arrows from afar
- 3:09:38Speaker 4: and death with poison armed in Lydiaborn, where plenteous harvests
- 3:09:43Speaker 4: the fat fields, Adorn where proud Pactolus floats the fruitful
- 3:09:47Speaker 4: lands and leaves a rich manure of golden sands. There
- 3:09:52Speaker 4: CAPPIs author of the Capuan name, and there was Nestheus too,
- 3:09:56Speaker 4: increased in fame, since turners from the camp he cast
- 3:09:59Speaker 4: with shame. Thus mortal war was waged on either side. Meantime,
- 3:10:06Speaker 4: the hero cut the knightly tide for anxious from a vander.
- 3:10:10Speaker 4: When he went, he sought the Tyrian camp, and Tarkon's
- 3:10:14Speaker 4: tent exposed the cause of coming to the chief his
- 3:10:18Speaker 4: name and country, told and asked relief, proposed the terms
- 3:10:22Speaker 4: his own small strength, declared what vengeance proud Mezentius had prepared,
- 3:10:28Speaker 4: what Turnus, bold and violent designed, then showed the slippery
- 3:10:33Speaker 4: state of humankind, and fickle fortune warned him to beware,
- 3:10:37Speaker 4: and to his wholesome counsel added prayer, tarkon without delay
- 3:10:42Speaker 4: the treaty signs, and to the Trojan troops the Tuscan joins.
- 3:10:48Speaker 4: They soon set sail. Nor Now the fates withstand their
- 3:10:52Speaker 4: forces trusted with a foreign hand. Eneas leads. Upon his
- 3:10:57Speaker 4: stern appear two lions carved which rise Ida bear Ida
- 3:11:02Speaker 4: to wandering Trojans, ever deer under their grateful shade. Eneas
- 3:11:07Speaker 4: sat revolving war's events and various fate. His left young
- 3:11:13Speaker 4: pallace kept fixed to his side, and oft of winds inquired,
- 3:11:17Speaker 4: and of the tide, oft of the stars, and of
- 3:11:19Speaker 4: their watery way, and what he suffered both by land
- 3:11:23Speaker 4: and sea. Now, sacred sisters, open all your spring. The
- 3:11:29Speaker 4: Tuscan leaders and their army sing, which followed greater ears
- 3:11:34Speaker 4: to the war. Their arms, their numbers, and their names
- 3:11:37Speaker 4: declare a thousand youths. Brave Massacus obey borne in the
- 3:11:43Speaker 4: tiger through the foaming sea from Asium brought and Kosa
- 3:11:48Speaker 4: by his care for arms, light quivers, bows and shafts,
- 3:11:52Speaker 4: they bear fierce Abbas next his men, bright armor, war
- 3:11:57Speaker 4: his stern. Apollo's golden statue bore six hundred Populonia sent
- 3:12:02Speaker 4: along all skilled in martial exercise and strong three hundred
- 3:12:06Speaker 4: more for battle. Ilva joins an isle renowned for steel
- 3:12:10Speaker 4: and unexhausted minds as Silas on his prow. The third appears,
- 3:12:16Speaker 4: who Heaven interprets, and the wandering stars from offer'd entrails,
- 3:12:20Speaker 4: prodigies expounds and peals of thunder with presaging sounds. A
- 3:12:25Speaker 4: thousand spears in warlike order stand sent by the peasants
- 3:12:29Speaker 4: under his command. Fair Astir follows in the watery field,
- 3:12:35Speaker 4: proud of his managed horse and painted shield. Gravisca noissome
- 3:12:40Speaker 4: from the neighboring fen and his own caire sent three
- 3:12:43Speaker 4: hundred men with those which Minios feels and Perghi gave,
- 3:12:48Speaker 4: all bred in arms, unanimous and brave thou muse the
- 3:12:53Speaker 4: name of sinniras renew and brave. Pupavo followed, but by
- 3:12:58Speaker 4: few whose helm confer the lineage of the man, and
- 3:13:01Speaker 4: bore with wings displayed a silver swan. Love was the
- 3:13:06Speaker 4: fault of his famed ancestry, whose forms and fortunes in
- 3:13:10Speaker 4: his ensigns fly for Kyknus loved unhappy fiaton and sung
- 3:13:16Speaker 4: his loss in poplar groves alone beneath the sister shades
- 3:13:20Speaker 4: to soothe his grief. Heaven heard his song and hastened
- 3:13:25Speaker 4: his relief, and changed to snowy plumes his hoary hair,
- 3:13:29Speaker 4: and winged his flight to chant Aloft.
- 3:13:31Speaker 2: In air.
- 3:13:33Speaker 4: His son Cupavo brushed the briny flood upon his stern.
- 3:13:37Speaker 4: A brawny centaur stood, who heaved a rock and threatening
- 3:13:41Speaker 4: still to throw with lifted hands, alarmed the seas below.
- 3:13:46Speaker 4: They seemed to fear the formidable sight and rolled their
- 3:13:49Speaker 4: billows on to speed his flight. Ocnus was next, who
- 3:13:54Speaker 4: led his native train of hardy warriors through the watery plain,
- 3:13:58Speaker 4: the son of Manto, by the Tuscan stream, from whence
- 3:14:01Speaker 4: the Mantuan town derives the name. An ancient city, but
- 3:14:05Speaker 4: of mixed descent. Three several tribes compose the government. Four
- 3:14:10Speaker 4: towns are under each, but all obey the Mantuan laws
- 3:14:13Speaker 4: and own the Tuscan sway. Hate to Mezentius armed five
- 3:14:18Speaker 4: hundred more, whom Minchius from his sire Benacus, bore Minchius
- 3:14:24Speaker 4: with wreaths of reeds, his forehead coverdure these grave auletes
- 3:14:29Speaker 4: leads a hundred sweep with stretching oars. At once the
- 3:14:32Speaker 4: glassy deep him and his marshal train. The triton bears
- 3:14:37Speaker 4: high on his poop. The sea green guard appears frowning.
- 3:14:40Speaker 4: He seems his crooked shell to sound, and at the blast,
- 3:14:44Speaker 4: the billows dance around a hairy man. Above the waist,
- 3:14:48Speaker 4: he shows a paupois tail beneath his belly grows and
- 3:14:52Speaker 4: ends a fish his breast. The waves divides, and froth
- 3:14:57Speaker 4: and foam augment the murmuring tides full. Thirty ships transport
- 3:15:02Speaker 4: the chosen train for Troy's relief and scour. The briny
- 3:15:06Speaker 4: main now was the world forsaken by the sun, and
- 3:15:11Speaker 4: Phoebe half her nightly race had run the careful chief
- 3:15:15Speaker 4: who never closed his eyes himself. The rudder holds the
- 3:15:19Speaker 4: sails supplies a choir of nereids met him on the
- 3:15:23Speaker 4: flood once his own galleys hewn from Ida's wood. But
- 3:15:27Speaker 4: now as many nymphs the sea, they sweep as rode
- 3:15:32Speaker 4: before tall vessels on the deep. They know him from afar,
- 3:15:36Speaker 4: And in a ring inclose the ship that bore the
- 3:15:39Speaker 4: Trojan King Commodesty, whose voice excell'd the rest above the
- 3:15:44Speaker 4: waves advanced her snowy breast. Her right hand stops the stern,
- 3:15:49Speaker 4: her left divides the curling ocean and corrects the tides.
- 3:15:54Speaker 4: She spoke for all the choir, and thus began with
- 3:15:57Speaker 4: pleasing words to warn the unknowing man. Sleeps our loved Lord,
- 3:16:02Speaker 4: our goddess born awake, Spread every sail, pursue your watery track,
- 3:16:07Speaker 4: and haste your course your navy. Once were we from
- 3:16:11Speaker 4: Ida's height, descending to the sea, till turn us as
- 3:16:15Speaker 4: at anchor fixed. We stood, presumed to violate our holy wood.
- 3:16:20Speaker 4: Then loosed from shore, we fled his fires profane unwillingly.
- 3:16:24Speaker 4: We broke our master's chain, and since have sought you
- 3:16:28Speaker 4: through the Tuscan main. The Mighty Mother changed our forms
- 3:16:32Speaker 4: to these and gave us life immortal in the seas.
- 3:16:36Speaker 4: But young Ascanius, in his camp, distressed by your insulting foes,
- 3:16:39Speaker 4: is hardly pressed. The Arcadian horseman and a Trurian host
- 3:16:44Speaker 4: advance in order on the Latian coast to cut their way.
- 3:16:48Speaker 4: The Dawnian chief designs. Before their troops can reach the
- 3:16:51Speaker 4: Trojan lines, Thou, when the rosy morn restores the light,
- 3:16:55Speaker 4: first arm thy soldiers for the ensuing fight thyself the
- 3:16:59Speaker 4: fate its sword of vulcan wield and bear aloft the
- 3:17:03Speaker 4: impenetrable shield to morrow's sun. Unless my skill be vain,
- 3:17:08Speaker 4: shall see huge heaps of foes in battle. Slain parting,
- 3:17:14Speaker 4: she spoke, and with immortal force, pushed on the vessel
- 3:17:17Speaker 4: in her watery course. For well she knew the way.
- 3:17:21Speaker 4: Impelled behind, the ship flew forward and outstripped the wind.
- 3:17:26Speaker 4: The rest make up unknowing of the cause. The chief
- 3:17:29Speaker 4: admires their speed, and happy omens draws. Then thus he
- 3:17:35Speaker 4: prayed and fixed on heaven his eyes. Here thou, great
- 3:17:40Speaker 4: mother of the deities. With turrets crowned on Ida's holy hill,
- 3:17:44Speaker 4: fierce tigers reigned and curved. Obey thy will, firm, thy
- 3:17:49Speaker 4: own omens, lead us on to fight, and let thy
- 3:17:52Speaker 4: Phrygians conquer in thy right. He said no more, And
- 3:17:57Speaker 4: now renewing day had chased the shadows of the night away.
- 3:18:01Speaker 4: He charged the soldiers with preventing care, their flags to
- 3:18:05Speaker 4: follow and their arms prepare warned of the ensuing fight,
- 3:18:09Speaker 4: and badam hope the war. Now his lofty poop he
- 3:18:13Speaker 4: viewed below, his camp encompassed, and the enclosing foe, his
- 3:18:18Speaker 4: blazing shield embraced, he held on high. The camp received
- 3:18:22Speaker 4: the sign and with loud shouts reply hope arms their courage.
- 3:18:27Speaker 4: From their towers, they throw their darts with double force
- 3:18:30Speaker 4: and drive the foe. Thus, at the signal given, the
- 3:18:34Speaker 4: cranes arise before the stormy south and blacken all the skies.
- 3:18:39Speaker 4: King Turnus wondered at the fight renewed till looking back
- 3:18:43Speaker 4: the Trojan fleet, he viewed the seas with swelling canvas
- 3:18:48Speaker 4: covered o'er and the swift ships descending on the shore.
- 3:18:52Speaker 4: The Latians saw from far with dazzled eyes, the radiant
- 3:18:56Speaker 4: crest that seemed in flames to rise and dart diffuse
- 3:19:00Speaker 4: fires around the field, and the keen glittering of the
- 3:19:03Speaker 4: golden shield, thus threatening comets. When by night they rise,
- 3:19:08Speaker 4: shoot sanguine streams and sadden all the skies. So Sirius,
- 3:19:14Speaker 4: flashing forth sinister lights, pale human kind with plagues and
- 3:19:19Speaker 4: with dry famine fright. Yet turn Us, with undaunted mind,
- 3:19:24Speaker 4: is bent to man the shores and hinder their descent,
- 3:19:27Speaker 4: and thus awakes the courage of his friends. What you
- 3:19:30Speaker 4: so long have wished, kind fortune sends in ardent arms
- 3:19:34Speaker 4: to meet the invading foe. You find and find him
- 3:19:38Speaker 4: at advantage. Now yours is the day you need. But
- 3:19:41Speaker 4: only dare your swords will make you masters of the war.
- 3:19:45Speaker 4: Your sires, your sons, your houses, and your lands and
- 3:19:48Speaker 4: dearest wives are all within your hands. Be mindful of
- 3:19:52Speaker 4: the race from whence you came, and emulate in arms
- 3:19:55Speaker 4: your father's fame. Now take the time while staggering. Yet
- 3:19:59Speaker 4: they stand with feet unfirm and prepossessed the strand. Fortune
- 3:20:04Speaker 4: befriends the bold. No more, he said, but balanced whom
- 3:20:08Speaker 4: to leave and whom to lead. Then these elects the
- 3:20:12Speaker 4: landing to prevent, and those he leaves to keep the
- 3:20:15Speaker 4: city pent. Meantime, the trojan sends his troops ashore. Some
- 3:20:21Speaker 4: are by boats exposed by bridges. More with laboring oars,
- 3:20:25Speaker 4: they bear along the strand, where the tide languishes, and
- 3:20:29Speaker 4: leap a land. Tarkon observes the coast with careful eyes,
- 3:20:34Speaker 4: and where no ford he finds no water, fries nor billows.
- 3:20:39Speaker 4: With unequal murmurs roar, but smoothly slide along and swell
- 3:20:43Speaker 4: the shore. That course he steer'd, and thus he gave command. Here,
- 3:20:49Speaker 4: ply your oars and at all hazard land force on
- 3:20:52Speaker 4: the vessel, that a keel may wound this hated soil
- 3:20:54Speaker 4: and furrow hostile ground. Let me securely, Land, I ask
- 3:20:59Speaker 4: no more, then sink my ships or shatter on the shore.
- 3:21:04Speaker 4: This fiery speech inflames his fearful friends. They tug at
- 3:21:08Speaker 4: every oar, and every stretcher bends. They run their ships aground.
- 3:21:13Speaker 4: The vessels knock, thus forced ashore and tremble with the shock.
- 3:21:17Speaker 4: Tarkans alone was lost. That stranded, stood stuck on a bank,
- 3:21:22Speaker 4: and beaten by the flood, she breaks her back. The
- 3:21:26Speaker 4: loosened sides give way and plunge. The Tuscan soldiers in
- 3:21:30Speaker 4: the sea. Their broken oars and floating planks withstand their
- 3:21:34Speaker 4: passage while they labor to the land, and ebbing tides
- 3:21:37Speaker 4: bear back upon the uncertain sand. Now turnus leads his
- 3:21:43Speaker 4: troops without delay, advancing to the margin of the sea.
- 3:21:46Speaker 4: The trumpets sound eneas first assailed the clowns, new raised
- 3:21:51Speaker 4: and roar, and soon prevailed. Great theiron fell an omen
- 3:21:56Speaker 4: of the fight. Great theiron, large of limbs, of giant height.
- 3:22:01Speaker 4: He first in open fields, defied the prince. But armor
- 3:22:05Speaker 4: scaled with gold was no defense. Against the fated sword,
- 3:22:08Speaker 4: which opened wide his plated shield and pierced his naked side.
- 3:22:14Speaker 4: Next lycas fell, who not like others born, was from
- 3:22:17Speaker 4: his wretched mother, ripped and torn sacred o Phoebus from
- 3:22:22Speaker 4: his birth to thee for his beginning life from biting
- 3:22:25Speaker 4: steel was free. Not far from him was Caius, laid
- 3:22:30Speaker 4: along of monstrous bulk, with Kisseus, fierce and strong, vain
- 3:22:35Speaker 4: bulk and strength, for when the chief assailed, nor Valor,
- 3:22:39Speaker 4: nor Herculean arms availed, nor their famed father won't in
- 3:22:44Speaker 4: war to go with great Alcides. When he toiled below
- 3:22:48Speaker 4: the noisy Pharross next received his death. Eneus writhed his
- 3:22:53Speaker 4: dart and stopped his bawling breath. Then wretched Sidon had
- 3:22:58Speaker 4: received his doom, who caughted Clytius in his beardless bloom,
- 3:23:03Speaker 4: and sought with lust obscene, polluted joys. The Trojan's sword
- 3:23:08Speaker 4: had cured his love of boys, had not his seven
- 3:23:11Speaker 4: bold brethren stopped the course of the fierce champions with
- 3:23:14Speaker 4: united force. Seven darts were thrown at once, and some
- 3:23:19Speaker 4: rebound from his bright shield, some on his helmet sound.
- 3:23:23Speaker 4: The rest had reached him, but his mother's care prevented
- 3:23:27Speaker 4: those and turned aside in air. The prince then called
- 3:23:32Speaker 4: acarts to supply the spears that knew the way to
- 3:23:35Speaker 4: victory those fatal weapons which inured to blood in Grecian bodies.
- 3:23:41Speaker 4: Under Ilium stood, not one of those my hand shall
- 3:23:45Speaker 4: toss in vain against our foes on this contented plane,
- 3:23:49Speaker 4: he said. Then seized a mighty spear, and through which
- 3:23:54Speaker 4: winged with fate through Mayon's buckler, flew, pierced all the
- 3:23:59Speaker 4: brazen place and reached his heart. He staggered with intolerable
- 3:24:04Speaker 4: smart alcanor saw and reached, but reached in vain. His
- 3:24:09Speaker 4: helping hand his brother to sustain a second spear, which
- 3:24:13Speaker 4: kept the former course from the same hand, and sent
- 3:24:16Speaker 4: with equal force his right arm pierced and holding on
- 3:24:20Speaker 4: bereft his use of both, and pinioned down his left.
- 3:24:25Speaker 4: Then Numitor, from his dead brother, drew the alonened spear
- 3:24:29Speaker 4: and at the Trojan, through preventing Fate direct the lance away,
- 3:24:35Speaker 4: which glancing only marked a Carti's thigh. In pride of youth,
- 3:24:41Speaker 4: the Sabine Clausus came, and from Afar at Dryops took
- 3:24:45Speaker 4: his aim the spear flew hissing through the middle space,
- 3:24:49Speaker 4: and pierced his throat directed at his face. It stopped
- 3:24:53Speaker 4: at once the passage of his wind, and the free
- 3:24:56Speaker 4: soul to flitting air resigned. His forehead was the first
- 3:25:00Speaker 4: that struck the ground. Life blood and life rushed mingled
- 3:25:04Speaker 4: through the wound. He slew three brothers of the Boian race,
- 3:25:09Speaker 4: and three whom Ismarus, their native place had sent to war,
- 3:25:12Speaker 4: But all the sons of thrace hellisus. Next, the bold
- 3:25:17Speaker 4: Aurunki leads the son of Neptune to his aide, succeeds
- 3:25:21Speaker 4: conspicuous on his horse. On either hand, these fight to
- 3:25:25Speaker 4: keep and those to win the land with mutual blood.
- 3:25:29Speaker 4: The Arsonian soil is dyed, while on its borders each
- 3:25:33Speaker 4: their claim decide. As wintry winds contending in the sky
- 3:25:37Speaker 4: with equal force of lungs, their titles try, They rage,
- 3:25:41Speaker 4: they roar, the doubtful rack of heaven stands without motion,
- 3:25:46Speaker 4: and the tide undriven. Each bent to conquer, neither side
- 3:25:50Speaker 4: to yield. They long suspend the fortune of the field.
- 3:25:55Speaker 4: Both armies thus perform what courage can foot set to
- 3:25:59Speaker 4: foot and mingled man to man. But in another part,
- 3:26:04Speaker 4: the Arcadian horse, with ill success, engaged the Latin force.
- 3:26:09Speaker 4: For where the impetuous torrent, rushing down huge craggy stones
- 3:26:13Speaker 4: and rooted trees, had thrown, they left their courses, and,
- 3:26:17Speaker 4: unused to fight on foot, were scattered in a shameful flight. Pallas,
- 3:26:22Speaker 4: who with disdain and grief had viewed his foes pursuing
- 3:26:26Speaker 4: and his friends pursued, used threatenings mixed with prayers, his
- 3:26:31Speaker 4: last resource, with these to move their minds, and those
- 3:26:34Speaker 4: to fire their force. Which way, companions, whither would you run?
- 3:26:40Speaker 3: By?
- 3:26:41Speaker 4: You? Yourselves? And mighty battles won by my great sire,
- 3:26:44Speaker 4: by his established name and early promise of my future fame,
- 3:26:48Speaker 4: by my youth, emulous of equal right to share his honors,
- 3:26:52Speaker 4: shun ignoble flight. Trust not your feet, your hands must
- 3:26:57Speaker 4: hew way through yon black body, and that thicker ray
- 3:27:01Speaker 4: tis through that forward path that we must come. There
- 3:27:04Speaker 4: lies our way, and that our passage home, nor powers above,
- 3:27:08Speaker 4: nor destinies below oppress our arms. With equal strength, we
- 3:27:12Speaker 4: go with mortal hands to meet a mortal foe. See
- 3:27:17Speaker 4: on what foot we stand? A scanty shore the sea
- 3:27:20Speaker 4: behind our enemies before, no passage left unless we swim
- 3:27:25Speaker 4: the mane or, forcing these the Trojan trenches. Gain this said,
- 3:27:31Speaker 4: he strode with eager haste along and bore amidst the
- 3:27:34Speaker 4: thickest of the throng lagas the first he met with
- 3:27:37Speaker 4: fate to foe, had heaved a stone of mighty weight
- 3:27:41Speaker 4: to throw. Stooping, the spear descended on his chine, just
- 3:27:45Speaker 4: where the bone distinguished either loin it stuck so fast,
- 3:27:49Speaker 4: so deeply buried lay that scarce. The victor forced the
- 3:27:52Speaker 4: steel away. His bond came on. But while he moved
- 3:27:57Speaker 4: too slow to wish to revenge, the prince prevence his blow,
- 3:28:01Speaker 4: for warding his at once. At once, he pressed and
- 3:28:04Speaker 4: plunged the fatal weapon in his breast. Then lewde and Kemelus,
- 3:28:09Speaker 4: he laid in dust, who stained his step dam's bed
- 3:28:12Speaker 4: with impious lust, and after him. The Dauchian twins were slain,
- 3:28:17Speaker 4: Laris and Thimbrous on the Latin plane, so wondrous like
- 3:28:22Speaker 4: in feature, shape and size, as caused an error in
- 3:28:25Speaker 4: their parents' eyes. Grateful mistake. But soon the sword decides
- 3:28:31Speaker 4: the nice distinction, and their fate divides. For Thimbro's head
- 3:28:36Speaker 4: was locked and Laris's hand dismembered, sought its owner on
- 3:28:40Speaker 4: the strand the trembling fingers. Yet the Photian strain and
- 3:28:45Speaker 4: threatened still the intended stroke in vain, now to renew
- 3:28:51Speaker 4: the charge. The Arcadians came sight of such acts, and
- 3:28:55Speaker 4: sense of honest shame and grief with anger mixed their
- 3:28:59Speaker 4: mind in flame. Then with a casual blow was Roitius slain,
- 3:29:04Speaker 4: who chanced as Pallor threw to cross the plain. The
- 3:29:08Speaker 4: flying spear was after eylas scent. But Roitius happened on
- 3:29:12Speaker 4: a death unment from Toythrus and from Tyres. While he fled,
- 3:29:17Speaker 4: the lance athwart his body laid him dead, rolled from
- 3:29:22Speaker 4: his chariot with a mortal wound, and intercepted fate. He
- 3:29:25Speaker 4: spurned the ground, as when in summer, welcome winds arise
- 3:29:30Speaker 4: the watchful shepherd to the forest flies and fires the
- 3:29:33Speaker 4: midmost plants. Contagion spreads and catching flames infect the neighboring
- 3:29:39Speaker 4: heads around the forest flies. The furious blast and all
- 3:29:43Speaker 4: the leafy nation sinks at last, and Vulcan rides in
- 3:29:47Speaker 4: triumph for the waste. The Pastor, pleased with his dire victory,
- 3:29:52Speaker 4: beholds the statiate flames in sheets ascend the sky. So
- 3:29:58Speaker 4: pallas troops, their scattered spe strength, unite and pouring on
- 3:30:02Speaker 4: their foes their prince delight. Hallasus came fierce with desire
- 3:30:08Speaker 4: of blood, but first collected in his arms, he stood advancing.
- 3:30:12Speaker 4: Then he plied the spear so well laid on Demodocus,
- 3:30:16Speaker 4: and fairies fell around his head. He tossed his glittering
- 3:30:20Speaker 4: brand and from Strimonius hewed his better hand, held up
- 3:30:24Speaker 4: to guard his throat. Then hurl a stone at tooas
- 3:30:28Speaker 4: ample front and pierced the bone. It struck beneath the
- 3:30:33Speaker 4: space of either eye and blood, and mingled brains together,
- 3:30:37Speaker 4: fly deep, skilled in future fates, Helasus sire did with
- 3:30:43Speaker 4: the youth to lonely groves retire. But when the father's
- 3:30:46Speaker 4: mortal race was run dire Destiny laid hold upon the
- 3:30:50Speaker 4: sun and hauled him to the war to find beneath
- 3:30:53Speaker 4: the Avandrean spear a memorable death pallith the encounter seeks,
- 3:30:59Speaker 4: but ere he throw rose to Tuscan Tiber thus addressed
- 3:31:02Speaker 4: his vows, our sacred stream, direct my flying dart, and
- 3:31:06Speaker 4: give to pass the proud Hellasius heart his arms and
- 3:31:10Speaker 4: spoils thy holy oak, shall bear pleased with the bribe.
- 3:31:15Speaker 4: The god received his prayer, for while his shield protects
- 3:31:18Speaker 4: a friend distressed, the dart came driving on and pierced
- 3:31:23Speaker 4: his breast. But Lausus, no small portion of the war
- 3:31:28Speaker 4: permits not panic fear to reign too far caused by
- 3:31:32Speaker 4: the death of so renowned a knight. But by his
- 3:31:35Speaker 4: own example, cheers the fight fierce. Abbas first he slew
- 3:31:40Speaker 4: abbas the stay of Trojan hopes and hindrance of the day.
- 3:31:44Speaker 4: The Phrygian troops escaped the Greeks in vain. They and
- 3:31:48Speaker 4: their mixed allies now load the plane to the rude
- 3:31:52Speaker 4: shock of war. Both armies came, their leaders equal and
- 3:31:56Speaker 4: their strength the same. The rear so pressed the front
- 3:32:00Speaker 4: they could not wield their angry weapons to dispute the field.
- 3:32:03Speaker 4: Here Pallas urges on and Lausus there of equal youth
- 3:32:08Speaker 4: and beauty, both appear, But both, by fate forbid to
- 3:32:12Speaker 4: breathe their native air, their congress in the field great
- 3:32:16Speaker 4: Jove withstands. Both doomed to fall, but fall by greater hands.
- 3:32:25Speaker 4: End of Book ten, Part one, Book ten, The Death
- 3:32:29Speaker 4: of Princes, Part two. Meantime Jaturna warms the downing and
- 3:32:36Speaker 4: chief of Lausus danger, urging swift relief. With his driven chariot,
- 3:32:42Speaker 4: he divides a crowd, and making to his friends, thus
- 3:32:45Speaker 4: calls aloud, let none presume his needless aid to join,
- 3:32:50Speaker 4: retire and clear the field. The fight is mine. To
- 3:32:53Speaker 4: this right hand is Pallas only due, Oh, were his
- 3:32:57Speaker 4: father here my just revenge to view from the forbidden
- 3:33:02Speaker 4: space his men retired. Pallas there owe and his stern
- 3:33:07Speaker 4: words admired surveyed him. Oh, and oh, with wondering sight,
- 3:33:11Speaker 4: struck with his haughty, mean and towering height. Then to
- 3:33:16Speaker 4: the king your empty vaunts forbear success, I hope and fate.
- 3:33:20Speaker 4: I cannot fear, alive or dead. I shall deserve a name.
- 3:33:24Speaker 4: Jove is impartial, and to both the same, he said,
- 3:33:28Speaker 4: and to the void advanced his pace, pale horror sat
- 3:33:32Speaker 4: on each arcadian face. Then turnus from his chariot, leaping light,
- 3:33:37Speaker 4: addressed himself on foot to single fight, and as a lion.
- 3:33:41Speaker 4: When he spies from far, a bull that seems to
- 3:33:44Speaker 4: meditate the war, bending his neck and spurning back the sand,
- 3:33:49Speaker 4: runs roaring downward from his hilly stand. Imagine eager turnus
- 3:33:54Speaker 4: not more slow to rush from high on his unequal foe.
- 3:33:59Speaker 4: Young Pallace, when he saw the chief advance within due
- 3:34:02Speaker 4: distance of his flying lance, prepares to charge him first,
- 3:34:06Speaker 4: resolved to try, if fortune would his want of force supply,
- 3:34:11Speaker 4: And thus to Heaven and Hercules addressed alsaides once on
- 3:34:16Speaker 4: earth Evander's guest, his son adjures you, by those holy rites,
- 3:34:21Speaker 4: that hospitable board, those genial knights, assist my great attempt
- 3:34:26Speaker 4: to gain this prize, and let proud turn Us view
- 3:34:30Speaker 4: with dying eyes his ravished spoils. Twas heard the vain request,
- 3:34:36Speaker 4: Alcaidee's mourned and stifled sighs within his breast. Then jove
- 3:34:42Speaker 4: to soothe his sorrow. Thus began short bounds of life
- 3:34:47Speaker 4: are set to mortal man. Tis Virtue's work alone to
- 3:34:50Speaker 4: stretch the narrow span. So many sons of gods, in
- 3:34:54Speaker 4: bloody fight around the walls of Troy, have lost the light.
- 3:34:58Speaker 4: My own Sarpine dun fell beneath his foe, Nor I,
- 3:35:02Speaker 4: his mighty sire, could ward the blow. Even Turnus shortly
- 3:35:06Speaker 4: shall resign his breath, and stands already on the verge
- 3:35:10Speaker 4: of death. This said the god permits the fatal fight.
- 3:35:15Speaker 4: But from the Latin fields, averts his sight. Now with
- 3:35:21Speaker 4: full force his spear young pallace through, and having thrown
- 3:35:25Speaker 4: his shining fulhon drew the steel just grazed along the
- 3:35:29Speaker 4: shoulder joint, and marked it slightly with the glancing point.
- 3:35:33Speaker 4: Fierce turnus first to nearer distance, drew and poised his
- 3:35:38Speaker 4: pointed spear before he threw. Then, as the winged weapon
- 3:35:42Speaker 4: whizzed along, see now, said he whose arm is better strung.
- 3:35:48Speaker 4: The spear kept on the fatal course, unstayed by plates
- 3:35:52Speaker 4: of iron, which o'er the shield were laid through, folded
- 3:35:55Speaker 4: brass and tough bull hides. It passed his corselet peers
- 3:36:00Speaker 4: and reached his heart at last, In vain, the youth
- 3:36:05Speaker 4: tugs at the broken wood. The soul comes, issuing with
- 3:36:09Speaker 4: the vital blood. He falls his arms upon his body sound,
- 3:36:15Speaker 4: and with his bloody teeth he bites the ground. Turnus
- 3:36:20Speaker 4: bestrode the corpse Arcadians. Here said he my message to
- 3:36:25Speaker 4: your master bear, such as the sire deserved the sun
- 3:36:29Speaker 4: I send. It costs him dear to be the Phrygian's friend,
- 3:36:34Speaker 4: the lifeless body. Tell him I bestow unasked to rest
- 3:36:38Speaker 4: his wandering ghost below, he said, and trampled down with
- 3:36:42Speaker 4: all the force of his left foot, and spurned the
- 3:36:45Speaker 4: wretched course. Then snatched the shining belt with gold inlaid
- 3:36:51Speaker 4: the belt Eurytian's artful hands had made where fifty fatal
- 3:36:55Speaker 4: brides expressed to sight, all in the compass of one
- 3:36:59Speaker 4: mournful night, deprived their bridegrooms of returning light. In an
- 3:37:06Speaker 4: ill hour, insulting Turnus tore those golden spoils, and in
- 3:37:10Speaker 4: a worse he wore o mortals blind in fate, who
- 3:37:14Speaker 4: never know to bear high fortune or endure the low.
- 3:37:18Speaker 4: The time shall come when Turnus, but in vain, shall
- 3:37:22Speaker 4: wish untouched the trophies of the slain, shall wish the
- 3:37:26Speaker 4: fatal belt were far away and cursed the dire remembrance
- 3:37:30Speaker 4: of the day the sad Arcadians from the unhappy field
- 3:37:36Speaker 4: bear back the breathless body on a shield, Oh grace
- 3:37:41Speaker 4: and grief of war, At once restored with praises to
- 3:37:45Speaker 4: thy sire, At once deplored. One day first sent thee
- 3:37:50Speaker 4: to the fighting field, beheld whole heaps of foes in
- 3:37:54Speaker 4: battle killed. One day beheld thee dead and born upon
- 3:37:59Speaker 4: thy shield. This dismal news not from uncertain fame, but
- 3:38:04Speaker 4: sad spectators to the hero came his friends upon the
- 3:38:09Speaker 4: brink of ruin stand unless relieved by his victorious hand.
- 3:38:15Speaker 4: He whirls his sword around without delay, and hewes through
- 3:38:18Speaker 4: adverse foes and ample way to find fierce turnus of
- 3:38:23Speaker 4: his conquest, proud evander Pallas. All that friendship owed to
- 3:38:27Speaker 4: large desserts are present to his eyes, his plighted hand,
- 3:38:32Speaker 4: and hospitable ties. Four sons of Sulmo, four whom ufens
- 3:38:37Speaker 4: bred he took in fight, and living victims led to
- 3:38:41Speaker 4: please the ghost of Pallace and expire in sacrifice before
- 3:38:45Speaker 4: his funeral fire at Margus. Next he threw, He stooped
- 3:38:50Speaker 4: below the flying spear and shunned the promised blow. Then,
- 3:38:54Speaker 4: creeping clasped the hero's knees, and prayed by young Eulus,
- 3:38:59Speaker 4: by thy father's shade of spare my life and send
- 3:39:03Speaker 4: me back to see my longing sire and tender progeny.
- 3:39:07Speaker 4: A lofty house I have, and wealth untold in silver
- 3:39:11Speaker 4: ingots and in bars of gold, all these and sums
- 3:39:14Speaker 4: besides which see no day. The ransom of this one
- 3:39:18Speaker 4: poor life shall pay. If I survive, will try the
- 3:39:22Speaker 4: less prevail. A single soul's too light to turn the scale,
- 3:39:27Speaker 4: he said the hero sternly thus replied, thy bars and ingots,
- 3:39:33Speaker 4: and the sums beside, leave for thy children's lot. Thy
- 3:39:38Speaker 4: turners broke all rules of war by one relentless stroke.
- 3:39:41Speaker 4: When Pallace fell, So deems nor deems alone my father's shadow,
- 3:39:47Speaker 4: but my living son. Thus, having said, of kind remorse bereft,
- 3:39:53Speaker 4: he seized his helm and dragged him with his left,
- 3:39:57Speaker 4: then with his right hand. While his neck he re
- 3:40:00Speaker 4: breathed up to the hilts his shining force sheathed. Apollo's
- 3:40:06Speaker 4: priest Emonides, was near, his holy filets on his front,
- 3:40:09Speaker 4: appear glittering in arms. He shone amidst the crowd, much
- 3:40:14Speaker 4: of his god, more of his purple proud him. The
- 3:40:18Speaker 4: fierce trojan followed through the field. The holy coward fell
- 3:40:23Speaker 4: and forced to yield. The prince stood o'er the priest,
- 3:40:26Speaker 4: and at one blow sent him an offering to the
- 3:40:29Speaker 4: shades below his arms. Serested this on his shoulders. Bears
- 3:40:34Speaker 4: designed a trophy to the god of wars. Volcanian calculus
- 3:40:39Speaker 4: renews the fight and umbro borne upon the mountain's height.
- 3:40:44Speaker 4: The champion cheers his troops to encounter those, and seeks
- 3:40:47Speaker 4: revenge himself on other foes. At anxious shield, he drove,
- 3:40:53Speaker 4: and at the blow both shield and arm to ground together.
- 3:40:56Speaker 4: Go Anxia had boasted much of magic charms, and thought
- 3:41:00Speaker 4: he wore impenetrable arms so made by muttered spells, and
- 3:41:06Speaker 4: from the spheres, had life secured in vain for length
- 3:41:09Speaker 4: of years. Then Tarquitus the field in triumph trod a nymph,
- 3:41:15Speaker 4: his mother, his sire, a god. Exulting in bright arms,
- 3:41:19Speaker 4: he braves the prince with his protended lance. He makes defense,
- 3:41:23Speaker 4: bears back his feeble foe, then, pressing on, arrests his
- 3:41:28Speaker 4: better hand and drags him down. Stands o'er the prostrate wretch,
- 3:41:33Speaker 4: and as he lay vain tails, inventing and prepared to pray,
- 3:41:38Speaker 4: mows off his head. The trunk a moment stood, then sunk,
- 3:41:43Speaker 4: and rolled along the sand in blood. The vengeful victor
- 3:41:48Speaker 4: thus upbraids the slain. Lie there, proud man, unpitied on
- 3:41:53Speaker 4: the plain, Lie there, inglorious and without a tomb, far
- 3:41:57Speaker 4: from thy mother and thy native home, exposed to savage beasts,
- 3:42:01Speaker 4: and birds of prey, or thrown for food to monsters
- 3:42:05Speaker 4: of the sea, on Lycas and Antaeus. Next he ran
- 3:42:10Speaker 4: two chiefs of Turnus, and who led his van. They
- 3:42:15Speaker 4: fled for fear. With these he chased along Camers, the
- 3:42:19Speaker 4: yellow locked and Numa strong, both great in arms, and
- 3:42:23Speaker 4: both were fair and young. Camers was son to Volsgen's,
- 3:42:27Speaker 4: lately slain in wealth, surpassing all the Latin train and
- 3:42:32Speaker 4: in Amycla fixed his silent, easy reigin and as agean.
- 3:42:37Speaker 4: When with heaven he strove, stood opposite in arms to
- 3:42:40Speaker 4: mighty Jove, moved all his hundred hands, provoked the war,
- 3:42:45Speaker 4: defied the forky lightning from Afar at fifty mouths. His
- 3:42:49Speaker 4: flaming breath expires, and flash for flash returns, and fires
- 3:42:54Speaker 4: for fires. In his right hand, as many swords he wields,
- 3:42:59Speaker 4: and takes the thunder on as many shields, with strength
- 3:43:03Speaker 4: like his. The Trojan hero stood, and soon the fields
- 3:43:07Speaker 4: with falling corpse were strode. When once his fortune found
- 3:43:12Speaker 4: the taste of blood, with fury scarce to be conceived,
- 3:43:16Speaker 4: he flew against Nepheus, whom four coursers drew. They when
- 3:43:21Speaker 4: they see the fiery chief advance, and pushing at their chests,
- 3:43:24Speaker 4: his pointed lance wheeled with so swift emotion. Mad with fear,
- 3:43:29Speaker 4: they threw their master headlong from the chair they stare,
- 3:43:33Speaker 4: they start, nor stop their course before they bear the
- 3:43:36Speaker 4: bounding chariot to the shore. Now Lucagus and Lige scour
- 3:43:41Speaker 4: the planes with two white steeds, but Liga holds the reins,
- 3:43:46Speaker 4: and Lucagus the lofty seat maintains bold brethren. Both the
- 3:43:51Speaker 4: former waved in air his flaming sword. Eneus couched his spear,
- 3:43:57Speaker 4: unused to threats and more unused to fear, then Liga.
- 3:44:01Speaker 4: Thus thy confidence is vain to escape rom Hence, as
- 3:44:06Speaker 4: from the Trojan plane, nor these the steed which Diomede bestrode,
- 3:44:11Speaker 4: Nor this the chariot where Achilles Road, nor Venus Vale.
- 3:44:16Speaker 4: Is here near Neptune's shield. Thy fatal hour is come,
- 3:44:20Speaker 4: and this the field. Thus Liger vainly vaunts the trojan
- 3:44:26Speaker 4: peer returned his answer with his flying spear. As Luca
- 3:44:31Speaker 4: goes to lash, his horse's bends prone to the wheels,
- 3:44:34Speaker 4: and his left foot pretends prepared for fight. The fatal
- 3:44:39Speaker 4: dart arrives and through the borders of his buckler drives
- 3:44:44Speaker 4: passed through and pierced his groin. The deadly wound cast
- 3:44:48Speaker 4: from his chariot rolled him on the ground, whom thus
- 3:44:52Speaker 4: the chief upbraids with scornful spite. Blame not the slowness
- 3:44:57Speaker 4: of your steeds in flight vein Sha did not force
- 3:45:01Speaker 4: their swift retreat. But you yourself forsake your empty seat,
- 3:45:06Speaker 4: he said, and seized at once the loosened rain, for
- 3:45:09Speaker 4: Lige lay already on the plain by the same shock. Then,
- 3:45:13Speaker 4: stretching out his hands, the recree and thus his wretched
- 3:45:16Speaker 4: life demands now by thyself, o more than mortal man,
- 3:45:21Speaker 4: by her and him from whom thy breath began, who
- 3:45:24Speaker 4: formed thee. Thus divine, I beg THEE spare this forfeit life,
- 3:45:29Speaker 4: and hear thy suppliance prayer. Thus much he spoke, and
- 3:45:33Speaker 4: more he would have said, but the stern hero turned
- 3:45:37Speaker 4: aside his head and cut him short. I hear another man,
- 3:45:41Speaker 4: you talk not thus before the fight began. Now take
- 3:45:45Speaker 4: your turn, and as a brother should attend your brother
- 3:45:48Speaker 4: to the Stygian flood. Then through his breast his fatal
- 3:45:52Speaker 4: sword he sent, and the soul issued at the gaping vent.
- 3:45:58Speaker 4: As storms the skies and torrents tear the ground, thus
- 3:46:02Speaker 4: raged the prince and scattered deaths around. At length, Ascanius
- 3:46:08Speaker 4: and the Trojan train broke from the camp, so long
- 3:46:11Speaker 4: besieged in vain. Meantime, the king of gods and mortal
- 3:46:16Speaker 4: man held conference with his queen, and thus began. My sister,
- 3:46:21Speaker 4: goddess and well pleasing wife, still think you venus aid
- 3:46:25Speaker 4: supports the strife, sustains her Trojans or themselves alone with
- 3:46:30Speaker 4: inborn valor, force their fortune on how fierce in fight
- 3:46:35Speaker 4: with courage undercaid. Judge if such warriors want immortal aid,
- 3:46:41Speaker 4: to whom the goddess with the charming eyes soft in
- 3:46:43Speaker 4: her tone submissively replies, why o, my sovereign lord, whose
- 3:46:49Speaker 4: frown I fear and cannot unconcerned your anger bear? Why
- 3:46:56Speaker 4: urge you thus my grief? When if I, still as
- 3:47:00Speaker 4: once I was, were mistress of your will, from your
- 3:47:03Speaker 4: almighty power, your pleasing wife might gain the grace of
- 3:47:08Speaker 4: lengthening Turner's life. Securely snatch him from the fatal fight
- 3:47:14Speaker 4: and give him to his aged father's sight. Now let
- 3:47:18Speaker 4: him perish, since you hold it good and glut the
- 3:47:21Speaker 4: Trojans with his pious blood yet from our lineage he
- 3:47:25Speaker 4: derives his name, and in the fourth degree from God,
- 3:47:29Speaker 4: Pulumnus came. Yet he devoutly pays you rights divine, and
- 3:47:33Speaker 4: offers daily incense at your shrine. Then shortly, thus the
- 3:47:38Speaker 4: sovereign God replied, Since in my power and goodness you confide,
- 3:47:44Speaker 4: if for a little space, a lengthened span, you beg
- 3:47:47Speaker 4: reprieve for this expiring man, I grant you leave to
- 3:47:51Speaker 4: take your turnus hence from instant fate, and can so
- 3:47:55Speaker 4: far dispense. But if some secret meaning has been to
- 3:48:00Speaker 4: save the short lived youth from destined death, or if
- 3:48:04Speaker 4: a father thought you entertained to change the fates, you
- 3:48:08Speaker 4: feed your hopes in vain, to whom the goddess thus
- 3:48:12Speaker 4: with weeping eyes. And what if that request your tongue denies,
- 3:48:17Speaker 4: your heart should grant, and not a short reprieve, but
- 3:48:21Speaker 4: length of certain life to turn us give now speedy
- 3:48:26Speaker 4: death attends the guiltless youth. If my presaging soul divines
- 3:48:30Speaker 4: with truth, which oh I wish might err through causeless fears,
- 3:48:35Speaker 4: and you, for you have power, prolong his years. Thus,
- 3:48:40Speaker 4: having said, involved in clouds, she flies and drives a
- 3:48:44Speaker 4: storm before her through the skies. Swift she descends, alighting
- 3:48:49Speaker 4: on the plain where the fierce foes. A dubious fight
- 3:48:52Speaker 4: maintain of air condensed a specter. Soon she made, and
- 3:48:58Speaker 4: what Eneus was so seemed the shade adorned with darden arms.
- 3:49:03Speaker 4: The phantom bore his head aloft a plumy crest. He
- 3:49:06Speaker 4: wore this hand appeared a shining sword to wield, and
- 3:49:11Speaker 4: that sustained an imitated shield. With manly mien, he stalked
- 3:49:16Speaker 4: along the ground. Nor wonted voice, belied nor vaunting sound.
- 3:49:22Speaker 4: Thus haunting ghosts appeared a waking sight or dreadful visions
- 3:49:26Speaker 4: in our dreams. By night, the specter seems the Downian
- 3:49:31Speaker 4: chief to dare, and flourishes his empty sword in air.
- 3:49:35Speaker 4: At this advancing turner's hurled his spear. The phantom wheeled
- 3:49:40Speaker 4: and seemed to fly for fear deluded turners thought the
- 3:49:44Speaker 4: trojan fled, and with vain hopes his haughty fancy fed.
- 3:49:49Speaker 4: Whither o coward, Thus he calls aloud, nor found he
- 3:49:53Speaker 4: spoke to wind and chased a cloud. Why, thus forsake
- 3:49:57Speaker 4: your bride, receive from me the fate tid land you
- 3:50:00Speaker 4: sought so long by sea, he said, and, brandishing at
- 3:50:04Speaker 4: once his blade, with eager pace, pursued the flying shade.
- 3:50:09Speaker 4: By chance a ship was fastened to the shore, which
- 3:50:12Speaker 4: from old Clusium King Osinea's bore the plank was ready
- 3:50:16Speaker 4: laid for safe ascent for shelter. There the trembling Shadow
- 3:50:20Speaker 4: bent and skipped and skulked, and under hatches went exulting Turnus,
- 3:50:26Speaker 4: with regardless haste, ascends the plank and to the galley
- 3:50:29Speaker 4: passed scarce had he reached the prow Saturnia's hand, the
- 3:50:34Speaker 4: holser's cuts and shoots the ship from land with wind
- 3:50:39Speaker 4: in poop. The vessel plows the sea and measures back
- 3:50:43Speaker 4: with speed her former way. Meantime, Ineas seeks his absent
- 3:50:47Speaker 4: foe and sends his slaughtered troops to shades below. The
- 3:50:53Speaker 4: guileful Phantom now forsook the shroud and flew sublime, and
- 3:50:57Speaker 4: vanished in a cloud to late young Turnus, the delusion
- 3:51:01Speaker 4: found far on the sea, still making from the ground,
- 3:51:06Speaker 4: then thankless for a life redeemed by shame, with sense
- 3:51:10Speaker 4: of honor, stung and forfeit fame, fearful besides of what
- 3:51:14Speaker 4: in fight had passed his hands and haggard eyes to
- 3:51:18Speaker 4: heaven he cast O jove, he cried, for what of
- 3:51:22Speaker 4: fence have I deserved to bear this endless infamy? Whence
- 3:51:27Speaker 4: am I forced? And whither am I born? How and
- 3:51:30Speaker 4: with what reproach shall I return? Shall ever I behold
- 3:51:34Speaker 4: the Latian plain, or see Laurentum's lofty towers again? What
- 3:51:38Speaker 4: will they say of their deserting chief? The war was mine.
- 3:51:42Speaker 4: I fly from their relief I led to slaughter, and
- 3:51:46Speaker 4: in slaughter leave, and even from hence their dying groans
- 3:51:50Speaker 4: receive here overmatched in fight, in heaps, they lie there,
- 3:51:55Speaker 4: scattered o'er the fields. Ignobly, fly, gape wide o'er earth,
- 3:52:01Speaker 4: and draw me down alive, or oh ye, pitying winds
- 3:52:05Speaker 4: a wretch, relieve on sands or shelves the splitting vessel drive,
- 3:52:11Speaker 4: or set me shipwrecked on some desert shore, where no
- 3:52:14Speaker 4: Rautulian eyes may see me more unknown to friends or
- 3:52:18Speaker 4: foes or conscious fame, lest she should follow, and my
- 3:52:22Speaker 4: flight proclaim, thus turnus raved, and various fates revolved. The
- 3:52:29Speaker 4: choice was doubtful, but the death resolved, And now the
- 3:52:33Speaker 4: sword and now the sea took place. That to revenge,
- 3:52:37Speaker 4: and this to purge disgrace. Sometimes he thought to swim
- 3:52:42Speaker 4: the stormy main, by stretch of arms the distant shore,
- 3:52:45Speaker 4: to gain thrice. He the sword a sayed, and thrice
- 3:52:49Speaker 4: the flood. But Duno moved with pity. Both withstood, and
- 3:52:54Speaker 4: Thrice repressed his rage. Strong gales supplied and pushed the
- 3:52:59Speaker 4: vessel o'er the dwelling tide. At length she lands him
- 3:53:03Speaker 4: on his native shores, and to his father's longing arms,
- 3:53:07Speaker 4: restores meantime, by Jove's impulse, Mezentius armed, succeeding Turnus with
- 3:53:15Speaker 4: his ardor warmed his fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight,
- 3:53:20Speaker 4: repelled the victors, and renewed the fight against their king.
- 3:53:25Speaker 4: The Tuscan troops conspire. Such is their hate, and such
- 3:53:29Speaker 4: their fierce desire of wished revenge on him and him alone.
- 3:53:33Speaker 4: All hands employed, and all their darts are thrown. He
- 3:53:37Speaker 4: like a solid rock by seas, enclosed to raging winds
- 3:53:41Speaker 4: and roaring waves, opposed from his proud summit, looking down,
- 3:53:46Speaker 4: disdains their empty menace, and unmoved remains beneath his feet
- 3:53:52Speaker 4: fell haughty Hebrus dead, then Latigus and Palmus. As he
- 3:53:56Speaker 4: fled at Lattigus, a weighty stone. He flung, His face
- 3:54:01Speaker 4: was flattered and his helmet rung, But Palmus from behind
- 3:54:06Speaker 4: receives his wound hamstringed. He falls and grovels on the ground,
- 3:54:11Speaker 4: his crest and armour from his body torn, thy shoulders
- 3:54:15Speaker 4: Lousus and thy head adorn Avas and Mimas, both of Troy.
- 3:54:20Speaker 4: He slew Mimas his birth from fair Teano drew born
- 3:54:25Speaker 4: on that fatal night when big with fire the queen
- 3:54:29Speaker 4: produced young Paris to his sire. But Paris, in the
- 3:54:33Speaker 4: Phrygian fields was slain unthinking Mimas on the Latian plain,
- 3:54:40Speaker 4: and as a savage boar on mountains, bread with forest
- 3:54:43Speaker 4: mast and fattening marshes fed. When once he sees himself
- 3:54:47Speaker 4: in toils, enclosed by huntsmen and their eager hounds, opposed,
- 3:54:51Speaker 4: he wets his tusks and turns and dares the war.
- 3:54:55Speaker 4: The invaders dart their javelins from afar. All keep aloof
- 3:55:00Speaker 4: and safely shout around, but none presumes to give a
- 3:55:03Speaker 4: nearer wound. He frets and froths, erects his bristled hide,
- 3:55:08Speaker 4: and shakes a grove of lances from his side. Not otherwise.
- 3:55:13Speaker 4: The troops, with hate inspired and just revenge against the tyrant,
- 3:55:16Speaker 4: fired their darts with clamour at a distance drive and
- 3:55:21Speaker 4: only keep the languished war alive. From Coritus came Acron
- 3:55:27Speaker 4: to the fight, who left his spouse betrothed and unconsummate.
- 3:55:31Speaker 4: Night Mezentius sees him through the squadron's ride, proud of
- 3:55:36Speaker 4: the purple favors of his bride. Then as a hungry
- 3:55:40Speaker 4: lion who beholds a gamesome goat who frisks about the
- 3:55:43Speaker 4: folds or beamy stag that grazes on the plane he runs,
- 3:55:48Speaker 4: He roars, he shakes his rising mane, He grins and
- 3:55:52Speaker 4: opens wide his greedy jaws. The prey lies panting underneath
- 3:55:56Speaker 4: his paws. He fills his famished more. His mouth runs
- 3:56:01Speaker 4: are with unchewed morsels while he churns the gore. So
- 3:56:06Speaker 4: proud Mezentius rushes on his foes, and first unhappy Acron
- 3:56:11Speaker 4: overthrows stretched at his length, he spurns the saarvy ground.
- 3:56:16Speaker 4: The lance besmeared with blood, lies broken in the wound.
- 3:56:22Speaker 4: Then with disdain, the haughty victor viewed o Rody's flying
- 3:56:26Speaker 4: nor the wretch pursued, nor thought the dastard's back deserved
- 3:56:30Speaker 4: a wound, but running gained the advantage of the ground. Then,
- 3:56:34Speaker 4: turning short, he met him face to face. To give
- 3:56:38Speaker 4: his victory the better grace, Arody's falls in equal fight
- 3:56:43Speaker 4: oppressed Mezentius fixed his foot upon his breast and rested lance.
- 3:56:49Speaker 4: And thus aloud he cries, Lo, here the champion of
- 3:56:53Speaker 4: my rebels lies the fields around with EO paian ring
- 3:56:59Speaker 4: and peel of shouts applaud the conquering king. At this
- 3:57:03Speaker 4: the vanquished, with his dying breath, thus faintly spoke and
- 3:57:08Speaker 4: prophesied in death, Nor thou, proud man, unpunished, shalt remain
- 3:57:15Speaker 4: like death, attend thee on this fatal plain. Then sourly smiling,
- 3:57:21Speaker 4: Thus the king replied, for what belongs to me, let
- 3:57:25Speaker 4: Jove provide, But die thou first, whatever chance ensue, he said,
- 3:57:31Speaker 4: And from the wound the weapon drew a hovering mist,
- 3:57:35Speaker 4: came swimming o'er his sight, and sealed his eyes in
- 3:57:38Speaker 4: everlasting night. By Kydacus al Cathous was slain. Sacrator laid
- 3:57:45Speaker 4: hydaspes on the plain. Or sees the strong to greater
- 3:57:49Speaker 4: strength must yield he with Parthenius, whereby Rapo killed. Then
- 3:57:56Speaker 4: brave Messapus Erichites slew, who from lecaun blood his lineage drew,
- 3:58:02Speaker 4: but from his headstrong horse his fate he found. Who
- 3:58:05Speaker 4: threw his master as he made a bound. The chief, alighting,
- 3:58:09Speaker 4: struck him to the ground. Then Clonius, hand to hand
- 3:58:13Speaker 4: on foot assails. The Trojan sinks, and Neptune's son prevails. Argus,
- 3:58:19Speaker 4: the Lycian, stepping forth with pride to single fight. The
- 3:58:23Speaker 4: boldest foe defied whom Tuscan Valorus by force o'ercame, and
- 3:58:28Speaker 4: not belied his mighty father's fame, Salius to death. The
- 3:58:33Speaker 4: great Antronius sent, but the same fate. The victor underwent,
- 3:58:38Speaker 4: slain by Nalci's hand, well skilled to throw the flying
- 3:58:42Speaker 4: dart and draw the far deceiving bow. Thus equal deaths
- 3:58:48Speaker 4: are dealt with equal chance by turns, they quit their
- 3:58:52Speaker 4: ground by turns, advance victor's and vanquished in the various field,
- 3:58:58Speaker 4: nor wholly overcome, nor yield. The gods from heaven survey
- 3:59:03Speaker 4: the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life.
- 3:59:08Speaker 4: Above the rest, two goddesses appear concerned for each here
- 3:59:12Speaker 4: Venus Juno. There amidst the crowd, infernal Arte shakes her
- 3:59:18Speaker 4: scourge aloft and crest of hissing snakes. Once more the
- 3:59:24Speaker 4: proud Mezentius, with disdain, brandished his spear and rushed into
- 3:59:28Speaker 4: the plain, where, towering in the midmost rank, he stood
- 3:59:33Speaker 4: like tall orion stalking are the flood. When with his
- 3:59:37Speaker 4: brawny breast he cuts the waves, his shoulders scarce the
- 3:59:41Speaker 4: topmost billow laves, or like a mountain ash whose roots
- 3:59:45Speaker 4: are spread deep, fixed in earth, in clouds, he hides
- 3:59:48Speaker 4: his head. The Trojan prince beheld him from afar, and
- 3:59:54Speaker 4: dauntless undertook the doubtful war. Collected in his strength, and
- 3:59:58Speaker 4: like a rock poised on his base, Mezentius stood the shock.
- 4:00:04Speaker 4: He stood, and, measuring first with careful eyes the space
- 4:00:08Speaker 4: his spear could reach, aloud, he cries, my strong right
- 4:00:13Speaker 4: hand and sword assist my stroke. Those only gods Mezentius
- 4:00:18Speaker 4: will invoke his armor from the Trojan pirate, torn by
- 4:00:23Speaker 4: my triumphant Lausus shall be worn, he said, And with
- 4:00:28Speaker 4: his utmost force he threw the massy spear, which, hissing
- 4:00:32Speaker 4: as it flew, reached the celestial shield that stopped the course,
- 4:00:37Speaker 4: but glancing. Thence the yet unbroken force took a new
- 4:00:41Speaker 4: bent obliquely and betwixt the side and bowels Famed Anthores fixed,
- 4:00:48Speaker 4: and Thorees had from Argos traveled far Alsaide's friend and
- 4:00:52Speaker 4: brother of the war till tired with toils fair Italy,
- 4:00:56Speaker 4: he chose, and in Evander's palace sought repose. Now falling
- 4:01:02Speaker 4: by another's wound, his eyes he cast to heaven. On
- 4:01:06Speaker 4: Argos thinks and dies. The pious Trojan then his javelin scent.
- 4:01:14Speaker 4: The shield gave way through treble plates. It went of
- 4:01:17Speaker 4: solid brass, of linen, trebly rolled, and three bull hides
- 4:01:21Speaker 4: which round the buckler fold. All these it passed resistless.
- 4:01:25Speaker 4: In the course, transpierced his thigh, and spent its dying force.
- 4:01:31Speaker 4: The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. The Trojan
- 4:01:36Speaker 4: glad with sight of hostile blood. His fortune drew to closer.
- 4:01:40Speaker 4: Fight addressed, and with new force, his fainting foe oppressed
- 4:01:45Speaker 4: his father's peril. Lausus viewed with grief his sighe he wept,
- 4:01:50Speaker 4: He ran to his relief, and here heroic youth tis
- 4:01:54Speaker 4: here I must to thy immortal memory, be just and
- 4:01:58Speaker 4: sing an act so noble and so new posterity will
- 4:02:02Speaker 4: scarce believe tis true. Pained with his wound and useless
- 4:02:07Speaker 4: for the fight, the father sought to save himself by flight.
- 4:02:12Speaker 4: Encumbered slow, he dragged the spear along which pierced his thigh,
- 4:02:16Speaker 4: and in his buckle are hung the pious youth resolved
- 4:02:20Speaker 4: on death below, the lifted sword springs forth to face
- 4:02:24Speaker 4: the foe, protects his parent and prevents the blow. Shouts
- 4:02:29Speaker 4: of applause ran ringing through the field to see the son.
- 4:02:32Speaker 4: The vanquished father, shield all fired with generous indignation, strive,
- 4:02:38Speaker 4: and with a storm of darts to distance drive. The
- 4:02:41Speaker 4: Trojan chief, who held at bay from far on his
- 4:02:44Speaker 4: Volcanoan orb, sustained the war. As when thick hail comes
- 4:02:50Speaker 4: rattling in the wind, the plowman, passenger and laboring hind
- 4:02:54Speaker 4: for sheltered of a neighboring covert, fly or housed or
- 4:02:58Speaker 4: safe in hollow caverns lie, But that o'erblown, when heaven
- 4:03:03Speaker 4: above smiled, returned to travel and renew their toils Eneas
- 4:03:08Speaker 4: thus o'erwhelmed on every side, the storm of darts undaunted
- 4:03:13Speaker 4: did abide, and thus Delausus, loud, with friendly threatening cried,
- 4:03:19Speaker 4: why walt thou rush to certain death? And rage in
- 4:03:23Speaker 4: rash attempts beyond thy tender age, betrayed by pious love,
- 4:03:29Speaker 4: nor thus forborne the youth desists, but with insulting scorn
- 4:03:33Speaker 4: provokes the lingering prince, whose patience tired, gave place and
- 4:03:38Speaker 4: all his breast, with fury fired. For now the fates
- 4:03:42Speaker 4: prepared their sharpened shears and lifted high the flaming sword appears,
- 4:03:48Speaker 4: which full, descending with a frightful sway through shield and coarselet,
- 4:03:53Speaker 4: forced the impetuous way, and buried deep in his fair bosom,
- 4:03:58Speaker 4: lay the purple stream means through the thin armor strove
- 4:04:03Speaker 4: and drenched the embroidered coat his mother wove, And life
- 4:04:07Speaker 4: at length forsook his heaving heart. Loth from so sweet
- 4:04:11Speaker 4: a mansion to depart. But when with blood and paleness
- 4:04:17Speaker 4: all are spread, the pious Prince beheld young Lausus dead.
- 4:04:22Speaker 4: He grieved, He wept the sight an image brought of
- 4:04:27Speaker 4: his own filial love, a sadly pleasing thought. Then stretched
- 4:04:33Speaker 4: his hand to hold him up, and said, poor, hapless youth,
- 4:04:38Speaker 4: what praises can be paid to love so great, to
- 4:04:42Speaker 4: such transcendent stall of early worth and sure presage of more.
- 4:04:48Speaker 4: Accept what erinears can afford. Untouched thy arms, untaken be
- 4:04:52Speaker 4: thy sword, and all that pleased thee living still remain
- 4:04:57Speaker 4: inviolate and sacred to the slain thy body, on thy parents,
- 4:05:02Speaker 4: I bestow to rest thy soul, at least if shadows
- 4:05:06Speaker 4: know or have a sense of human things below, there
- 4:05:10Speaker 4: to thy fellow ghosts with glory, Tell twas by the
- 4:05:14Speaker 4: great Eneus hand I fell with this his distant friends,
- 4:05:21Speaker 4: he beckons near, provokes their duty, and prevents their fear.
- 4:05:25Speaker 4: Himself assists to lift him from the ground, with clotted
- 4:05:29Speaker 4: locks and blood that welled from out the wound. Meantime,
- 4:05:34Speaker 4: his father, now no father, stood and washed his wounds
- 4:05:39Speaker 4: by Tiber's yellow flood. Oppressed with anguish panting, and o'er
- 4:05:45Speaker 4: spent his fainting limbs against an oak. He leant a bough,
- 4:05:50Speaker 4: His brazen helmet did sustain. His heavier arms lay scattered
- 4:05:54Speaker 4: on the plain, a chosen train of youth around him.
- 4:05:58Speaker 4: Stand hooping head was rested on his hand, his grisly beard,
- 4:06:03Speaker 4: his pensive bosom sought, and all on Lausus ran his
- 4:06:08Speaker 4: restless thought, careful concerned his danger. To prevent he much inquired,
- 4:06:14Speaker 4: and many a message sent to warn him from the field.
- 4:06:18Speaker 4: Alas in vain, behold his mournful followers bear him slain o'er.
- 4:06:26Speaker 4: His broad shield still gushed the yawning wound and drew
- 4:06:31Speaker 4: a bloody trail along the ground. Far off. He heard
- 4:06:35Speaker 4: their cries far off, divined the dire event with a
- 4:06:39Speaker 4: foreboding mind. With dust, he sprinkled first his hoary head,
- 4:06:45Speaker 4: then both his lifted hands to heaven. He spread last
- 4:06:50Speaker 4: the dear corpse. Embracing thus he said, what joys? Alas,
- 4:06:56Speaker 4: could this frail being give that I have been so
- 4:07:00Speaker 4: covetous to live to see my son? And such a
- 4:07:04Speaker 4: son resign his life a ransom for preserving mine? And
- 4:07:11Speaker 4: am I then preserved? And at thou lost? How much, too, dear,
- 4:07:17Speaker 4: has that redemption cost? Tis now my bitter banishment. I
- 4:07:22Speaker 4: feel this is a wound too deep for time to heal.
- 4:07:27Speaker 4: My guilt, Thy growing virtues defame my blackness, blotted thy
- 4:07:33Speaker 4: unblemished name, chaste from a throne, abandoned and exiled for
- 4:07:38Speaker 4: foul misdeeds were punishments too mild. I owed my people these,
- 4:07:43Speaker 4: and from their hate, with less resentment, could have borne
- 4:07:46Speaker 4: my fate. And yet I live, and yet sustain the
- 4:07:51Speaker 4: sight of hated men and of more hated light. But
- 4:07:57Speaker 4: will not long.
- 4:08:00Speaker 2: With that.
- 4:08:00Speaker 4: He raised from ground his fainting limbs that staggered with
- 4:08:04Speaker 4: his wound, yet with a mind resolved and unappalled with
- 4:08:08Speaker 4: pains or perils. For his courser called well mouthed, well managed,
- 4:08:13Speaker 4: whom himself did dress with daily care, and mounted with
- 4:08:17Speaker 4: success his aid in arms, his ornament in peace, soothing
- 4:08:23Speaker 4: his courage. With a gentle stroke, the steed seemed sensible.
- 4:08:27Speaker 4: While thus he spoke, oh, Royebus, we have lived too
- 4:08:31Speaker 4: long for me. If life and long were terms that
- 4:08:35Speaker 4: could agree, this day, thou either shalt bring back the
- 4:08:39Speaker 4: head and bloody trophies of the Trojan dead. This day
- 4:08:43Speaker 4: thou either shalt revenge my woe or murdered Lausus on
- 4:08:47Speaker 4: his cruel foe, or if inexorable fate, deny our conquest
- 4:08:53Speaker 4: with thy conquered master.
- 4:08:55Speaker 1: Die.
- 4:08:57Speaker 4: For after such a lord, I rest the cure. Thou
- 4:09:00Speaker 4: wilt no foreign reins or Trojan load endure. He said,
- 4:09:06Speaker 4: and straight the officious courser kneels to take his wonted
- 4:09:09Speaker 4: weight his hand he fills with pointed javelins. On his
- 4:09:14Speaker 4: head he laced his glittering helm, which terribly was graced
- 4:09:18Speaker 4: with waving horsehair, nodding from afar. Then spurred his thundering
- 4:09:23Speaker 4: steed amidst the war, love, anguish, wrath, and grief to madness,
- 4:09:28Speaker 4: wrought despair and secret shame and conscious thought of inborn worth,
- 4:09:34Speaker 4: His laboring soul oppressed, rolled in his eyes, and raged
- 4:09:39Speaker 4: within his breast. Then loud he called Eneas thrice by name.
- 4:09:44Speaker 4: The loud repeated voice to Gladeneus came great Jove, he said,
- 4:09:50Speaker 4: And the far shooting God inspire thy mind to make
- 4:09:53Speaker 4: thy challenge good. He spoke no more, but hastened, void
- 4:09:58Speaker 4: of fear, and threaten with his long protended spear, to
- 4:10:03Speaker 4: whom meventius. Thus, thy vaunts are vain, my lousest lies
- 4:10:08Speaker 4: extended on the plain. He is lost. Thy conquest is
- 4:10:13Speaker 4: already won. The wretched sire is murdered in the sun.
- 4:10:18Speaker 4: Nor fate I fear, but all the gods defy forbear
- 4:10:22Speaker 4: thy threats. My business is to die, But first receive
- 4:10:26Speaker 4: this parting legacy, he said, and straight a whirling dart.
- 4:10:31Speaker 4: He sent another after, and another went round in a
- 4:10:35Speaker 4: spacious ring. He rides the field and vainly plies the
- 4:10:39Speaker 4: impenetrable shield. Thrice rode he round, and thrice Eneus wheeled
- 4:10:44Speaker 4: turned as he turned. The golden orb withstood the strokes
- 4:10:49Speaker 4: and bore about an iron wood. Impatient of delay and
- 4:10:54Speaker 4: weary groan still to defend, and to defend alone, to
- 4:10:58Speaker 4: wrench the darts, which in his buck alight urged, and
- 4:11:01Speaker 4: o'erlabored in unequal fight. At length resolved, he throws with
- 4:11:06Speaker 4: all his force full at the temples of the warrior horse.
- 4:11:11Speaker 4: Just where the stroke was aimed. The unerring spear made
- 4:11:14Speaker 4: way and stood transfixed through either ear, seized with unwonted pain.
- 4:11:20Speaker 4: Surprised with fright, the wounded steed curvet and raised upright,
- 4:11:25Speaker 4: lights on his feet before his hooves behind spring in air,
- 4:11:29Speaker 4: aloft and lashed. The wind down comes the rider headlong
- 4:11:34Speaker 4: from his height. His horse came after, with unwieldy weight
- 4:11:38Speaker 4: and floundering forward, pitching on his head, his lord's encumbered
- 4:11:42Speaker 4: shoulder overlaid from either host. The mingled shouts and cries
- 4:11:48Speaker 4: of trojans and rutulians rend the skies, Eneas hastening waved
- 4:11:53Speaker 4: his fatal sword high o'er his head with this reproachful word.
- 4:11:58Speaker 4: Now where are now thy vons, the fierce disdain of proud, misentious,
- 4:12:03Speaker 4: and the lofty strain struggling and wildly staring on the
- 4:12:08Speaker 4: skies with scarce recovered sight. He thus replies, why these
- 4:12:13Speaker 4: insulting words, this waste of breath, their souls undaunted and
- 4:12:17Speaker 4: secure of death, tis no dishonor for the brave to die?
- 4:12:22Speaker 4: Nor came I here with hope of victory, nor ask
- 4:12:25Speaker 4: thy life, nor fought with that design, as I had
- 4:12:29Speaker 4: used my fortune. Use thou thine, my dying son, contracted
- 4:12:35Speaker 4: no such band. The gift is hateful from his murderer's hand.
- 4:12:40Speaker 4: For this this only favor. Let me sue if pity
- 4:12:45Speaker 4: can to conquered foes be due. Refuse it not, But
- 4:12:49Speaker 4: let my body have the last retreat of human kind
- 4:12:53Speaker 4: a grave too well. I know the insulting people's hate
- 4:12:58Speaker 4: protect me from their vengeance after fate, this refuge for
- 4:13:02Speaker 4: my poor remains. Provide and lay my much loved Lousus
- 4:13:07Speaker 4: by my side, he said, and to the sword his
- 4:13:13Speaker 4: throat applied the crimson stream disdained his arms around, and
- 4:13:19Speaker 4: the disdainful soul came rushing through the wound.
- 4:13:26Speaker 5: End of Book ten, Book eleven, Debaters and a Warrior Girl,
- 4:13:30Speaker 5: Part one, Scarce had the rosy morning, raised her head
- 4:13:35Speaker 5: above the waves, and left her watchery bed. The pious chief,
- 4:13:39Speaker 5: whom double Cares attend for his unburied soldiers and his friend,
- 4:13:44Speaker 5: yet first to heaven, performed a victor's vows. He barred
- 4:13:48Speaker 5: an ancient oak of all her boughs. Then on a
- 4:13:52Speaker 5: rising ground the trunk he placed, which with the spoils
- 4:13:55Speaker 5: of his dead foe. He grazed. The coat of arms
- 4:13:59Speaker 5: by proud mosentious worn now on a naked snag and
- 4:14:03Speaker 5: triumph born was hung on high and glittered from afar,
- 4:14:08Speaker 5: a trophy sacred to the god of war. Above his
- 4:14:12Speaker 5: arms fixed on the leafless wood, appeared his plumy crest
- 4:14:17Speaker 5: besmeared with blood. His brazen buckler. On the left was
- 4:14:21Speaker 5: seen truncheons of shivered lances hung between, and on the
- 4:14:26Speaker 5: right was placed his corselet board, and to the neck
- 4:14:30Speaker 5: was tied his unavailing sword. A crowd of chiefs enclosed
- 4:14:35Speaker 5: the godlike man who thus conspicuous in the midst began
- 4:14:40Speaker 5: our toils, my friends, are crowned with sure success. The
- 4:14:43Speaker 5: greater part performed achieved. The less now follow cheerful to
- 4:14:48Speaker 5: the trembling town press. But an entrance, and presume at
- 4:14:52Speaker 5: one fear is no more for fierce mizentious lies. As
- 4:14:57Speaker 5: the first fruits of war. A sacrifice turnus shall fall
- 4:15:02Speaker 5: extended on the plain, and in this Omen is already slain.
- 4:15:07Speaker 5: Prepared in arms. Pursue your happy chance, that none unwarned
- 4:15:12Speaker 5: may plead his ignorance, and I, at Heaven's appointed hour,
- 4:15:16Speaker 5: may find your warlike ensigns waving in the wind. Meantime,
- 4:15:21Speaker 5: the rights and funeral pomps prepare due to your dead
- 4:15:25Speaker 5: companions of the war, the last respect the living can
- 4:15:29Speaker 5: bestow to shield their shadows from contempt. Below that conquered
- 4:15:34Speaker 5: earth be theirs for which they fought, and which for
- 4:15:38Speaker 5: us with their own blood they bought. But first the
- 4:15:41Speaker 5: corpse of our unhappy friend, to the sad city of
- 4:15:45Speaker 5: a van Dersend, who, not inglorious in his age's bloom,
- 4:15:50Speaker 5: was hurried hence by too severe a doom. Thus weeping
- 4:15:55Speaker 5: while he spoke, he took his way, where new in
- 4:15:58Speaker 5: death lamented powers lay acouettes watched the corpse, whose youth
- 4:16:04Speaker 5: deserved the father's trust, and now the son he served
- 4:16:08Speaker 5: with equal faith but less auspicious care. The attendants of
- 4:16:13Speaker 5: the slain his sorrow share a troop of trojans mixed
- 4:16:17Speaker 5: with these appear and morning matrons with disheveled hair. Soon
- 4:16:22Speaker 5: as the prince appears, they raise a cry, all beat
- 4:16:26Speaker 5: their breasts, and echoes rend the sky. They rear his
- 4:16:30Speaker 5: drooping forehead from the ground. But when Aeneas viewed the
- 4:16:35Speaker 5: grisly wound which Pallace in his manly bosom bore, and
- 4:16:40Speaker 5: the fair flesh disdained with purple gore, first melting into tears,
- 4:16:45Speaker 5: the pious man deplored so sad a sight. Then thus
- 4:16:50Speaker 5: began unhappy youth. When fortune gave the rest of my
- 4:16:54Speaker 5: full wishes, she refused the best she came, but brought
- 4:16:59Speaker 5: not the al long to bless my longing eyes and
- 4:17:02Speaker 5: share in my success. She grudged thy safe return the
- 4:17:06Speaker 5: triumphs due to prosperous valor in the public view. Not
- 4:17:11Speaker 5: thus I promised, when thy father lent thy needless succor
- 4:17:14Speaker 5: with this sad consent embraced me, parting for the Turian land,
- 4:17:20Speaker 5: and sent me to possess a large command. He warned,
- 4:17:24Speaker 5: and from his own experience, told, our foes were warlike,
- 4:17:28Speaker 5: disciplined and bold. And now, perhaps in hopes of thy return,
- 4:17:34Speaker 5: rich odors on his loaded altars burn, while we, with
- 4:17:38Speaker 5: vain officious pomp, prepare to send him back his portion
- 4:17:42Speaker 5: of the war, a bloody, breathless body which can owe
- 4:17:46Speaker 5: no farther debt but to the powers below. The wretched father,
- 4:17:51Speaker 5: ere his race is run, shall view the funeral honors
- 4:17:55Speaker 5: of his son. These are my triumphs of the Latian war,
- 4:17:59Speaker 5: fruits of my plighted faith and boasted care. And yet
- 4:18:03Speaker 5: unhappy sire, thou shalt not see a son whose death
- 4:18:07Speaker 5: disgraced his ancestry. Thou shalt not blush. Old man, however,
- 4:18:12Speaker 5: grieved thy palace. No dishonest wound received. He died no
- 4:18:17Speaker 5: death to make thee wish too late. Thou hadst not
- 4:18:21Speaker 5: lived to see his shameful fate. But what a champion
- 4:18:25Speaker 5: has the Sonian coast, And what a friend hast thou
- 4:18:29Speaker 5: Ascanius lost. Thus, having mourned, he gave the word around
- 4:18:35Speaker 5: to raise the breathless body from the ground, and chose
- 4:18:39Speaker 5: a thousand horse, the flower of all his warlike troops,
- 4:18:43Speaker 5: to wait the funeral, to bear him back and share
- 4:18:47Speaker 5: a vander's grief, a well becoming, but a weak relief
- 4:18:51Speaker 5: of oaken twigs, they twist an easy beer. Then on
- 4:18:55Speaker 5: their shoulders the sad burden rear the body. On this
- 4:19:01Speaker 5: rural hearse is born strewed leaves and funeral greens. The
- 4:19:06Speaker 5: beer adorn all pale. He lies and looks a lovely
- 4:19:10Speaker 5: flower new cropped by virgin hands to dress the bower,
- 4:19:15Speaker 5: unfaded yet but yet unfed below. No more to Mother
- 4:19:19Speaker 5: Earth or the green stern shall owe. Then two fair
- 4:19:24Speaker 5: vests of wondrous work and cost of purple, woven and
- 4:19:29Speaker 5: with gold embossed for ornament, the Trojan hero brought, which
- 4:19:34Speaker 5: with her hands Sodonian Dido wrought one vest arrayed the corpse,
- 4:19:41Speaker 5: and one they spread o'er his closed eyes, and wrapped
- 4:19:44Speaker 5: around his head, that when the yellow hair and flame
- 4:19:48Speaker 5: should fall, the catching fire might burn the golden call.
- 4:19:52Speaker 5: Besides the spoils of foes in battle slain when he
- 4:19:56Speaker 5: descended on the Lytian plain, arms trappings, horses by the
- 4:20:01Speaker 5: hearse are led in long array. The achievements of the dead,
- 4:20:06Speaker 5: then pinioned with their hands behind, appear. Then happy captives
- 4:20:10Speaker 5: marching in the rear, appointed offerings in the victor's name
- 4:20:15Speaker 5: to sprinkle with their blood the funeral flame inferior trophies
- 4:20:21Speaker 5: by the chiefs are born, gauntlets and helms. Their loaded
- 4:20:25Speaker 5: hands adorn and fair inscriptions fixed and titles read of
- 4:20:31Speaker 5: Latian leaders conquered by the dead. Acoetes on his pupil's corpse,
- 4:20:36Speaker 5: attends with feeble steps, supported by his friends, pausing at
- 4:20:42Speaker 5: every pace in sorrow. Drowned betwixt their arms, he sinks
- 4:20:46Speaker 5: upon the ground, where groveling while he lies in deep despair,
- 4:20:52Speaker 5: he beats his breast and rends his hoary hair. The
- 4:20:56Speaker 5: champion's chariot next is seen to roll besmear with hostile
- 4:21:00Speaker 5: blood and honorably foul to close the pomp aethon the
- 4:21:05Speaker 5: steed of state is led the funerals of his lord
- 4:21:09Speaker 5: to wait. Stripped of his trappings, with a sullen pace,
- 4:21:13Speaker 5: he walks and the big tears run rolling down his face.
- 4:21:18Speaker 5: The lance of palace and the crimson crest are born behind.
- 4:21:23Speaker 5: The victor seized the rest, the march begins, the trumpets
- 4:21:27Speaker 5: hoarsely sound, the pikes and lances trail along the ground. Thus,
- 4:21:33Speaker 5: while the Trojan and Arcadian horse to Pollantean towers direct
- 4:21:37Speaker 5: their course in long procession. Ranked the pious chief stopped
- 4:21:42Speaker 5: in the rear and gave a vent to grief the
- 4:21:45Speaker 5: public care. He said, which war attends diverts our present woes,
- 4:21:51Speaker 5: at least suspends peace with the manes of great palace, Dwell, hail,
- 4:21:57Speaker 5: holy relics, and a last farewell, He said no more,
- 4:22:02Speaker 5: but inly through he mourned, restrained his tears, and to
- 4:22:06Speaker 5: the camp returned. Now suppliants from Laurentum scent demand truce,
- 4:22:13Speaker 5: with olive branches in their hand, obtest his clemency, and
- 4:22:18Speaker 5: from the plain beg leave to draw the bodies of
- 4:22:21Speaker 5: their slain. They plead that none those common rights deny
- 4:22:26Speaker 5: to conquered foes, that in fair battle die all cause
- 4:22:30Speaker 5: of hate was ended in their death. Nor could he
- 4:22:33Speaker 5: war with bodies void of breath. A king, they hoped,
- 4:22:37Speaker 5: would hear a king's request, whose son he once was called,
- 4:22:41Speaker 5: and once his guest their suit, which was too just
- 4:22:46Speaker 5: to be denied. The hero grants and farther. Thus replied, O,
- 4:22:51Speaker 5: Latian princes, how severe a fate and causeless quarrels has
- 4:22:56Speaker 5: involved your state and armed against an unoffending man who
- 4:23:00Speaker 5: sought your friendship. Ere the war began, you beg a
- 4:23:05Speaker 5: truce which I would gladly give, not only for the slain,
- 4:23:09Speaker 5: but those who live. I came not hither, but by
- 4:23:12Speaker 5: Heaven's command, and sent by fate to share the Latian land.
- 4:23:17Speaker 5: Nor wage I wars unjust. Your king denied my proffered friendship,
- 4:23:22Speaker 5: and my promised bride left me for turnus. Turnus then
- 4:23:27Speaker 5: should try his cause in arms, to conquer or to die.
- 4:23:32Speaker 5: My right and his are in dispute. The slain fell
- 4:23:35Speaker 5: without fault our quarrel to maintain in equal arms. Let
- 4:23:40Speaker 5: us alone contend, and let him vanquish whom his fates befriend.
- 4:23:46Speaker 5: This is the way. So tell him to possess the
- 4:23:49Speaker 5: royal virgin and restore the peace. Bear this message back
- 4:23:54Speaker 5: with ample leave, that your slain friends may funeral rites receive. Thus,
- 4:24:00Speaker 5: having said, the ambassadors amazed, stood mute awhile, and on
- 4:24:05Speaker 5: each other gazed durrances their chief, who harbored in his
- 4:24:10Speaker 5: breast long hate to turnus, as his foe professed, broke
- 4:24:15Speaker 5: silence first, and to the godlike man with graceful action bowing.
- 4:24:21Speaker 5: Thus began auspicious prince in arms, a mighty name, but
- 4:24:26Speaker 5: yet whose actions far transcend your fame. Would I your
- 4:24:31Speaker 5: justice or your force? Express thought can be equal, and
- 4:24:36Speaker 5: all words are less Your answer, we shall thankfully relate,
- 4:24:41Speaker 5: and favors granted to the Latian state. If wished success,
- 4:24:46Speaker 5: our labor shall attend. Think peace concluded, and the king
- 4:24:51Speaker 5: your friend, Let turnus leave the realm to your command
- 4:24:55Speaker 5: and seek alliance in some other land. Build you the
- 4:25:00Speaker 5: city which your fates assign. We shall be proud in
- 4:25:03Speaker 5: the great work to join. Thus drances and his words
- 4:25:08Speaker 5: so well persuade the rest empowered, that soon a truce
- 4:25:12Speaker 5: is made twelve days the term allowed, and during those
- 4:25:17Speaker 5: Latians and Trojans now no longer foes mixed in the
- 4:25:22Speaker 5: woods for funeral piles, prepare to fell the timber and
- 4:25:26Speaker 5: forget the war. Loud axes through the groaning groves resound oak, mountain, ash,
- 4:25:33Speaker 5: and poplar spread the ground. First fall from high, and
- 4:25:38Speaker 5: some the trunks receive in loaded wanes with wedges. Some
- 4:25:42Speaker 5: they cleave, and now the fatal news by Fame is
- 4:25:46Speaker 5: blown through the short circuit of the Arcadian town of Palace,
- 4:25:51Speaker 5: Slain by Fame, which just before his triumphs on distended
- 4:25:56Speaker 5: pinions bore Rushing from out the gate, the people's stand,
- 4:26:01Speaker 5: each with a funeral flambeaux in his hand. Wildly they
- 4:26:05Speaker 5: stare distracted with a maze. The fields are lightened with
- 4:26:09Speaker 5: a fiery blaze that cast a sullen splendor on their friends,
- 4:26:14Speaker 5: the marching troop which their dead prince attends. Both parties meet,
- 4:26:20Speaker 5: they raise a doleful cry. The matrons from the walls
- 4:26:24Speaker 5: with shrieks, reply, and their mixed morning rends the vaulted sky.
- 4:26:29Speaker 5: The town is filled with tumult and with tears, till
- 4:26:33Speaker 5: the loud clamors reach a vander's ears. Forgetful of his state,
- 4:26:39Speaker 5: he runs along with a disordered pace and cleaves the
- 4:26:43Speaker 5: throng falls on the corpse, and groaning there he lies
- 4:26:47Speaker 5: with silent grief that speaks, but at his eyes, short
- 4:26:52Speaker 5: sighs and sobs succeed till sorrow breaks a passage, and
- 4:26:57Speaker 5: at once he weeps and speaks, O Palace, thou hast
- 4:27:02Speaker 5: failed thy plighted word to fight, with caution not to
- 4:27:07Speaker 5: tempt the sword. I warned thee, but in vain, for
- 4:27:10Speaker 5: well I knew what peril's youthful ardor would pursue. That
- 4:27:15Speaker 5: boiling blood would carry thee too far young as thou
- 4:27:19Speaker 5: wert in dangers, raw to war, O cursed essay of arms,
- 4:27:24Speaker 5: disastrous doom, prelude of bloody fields and fights to come
- 4:27:29Speaker 5: hard elements of unauspicious war, vain vows to heaven and
- 4:27:34Speaker 5: unavailing care thrice Happy thou, dear partner of my bed,
- 4:27:40Speaker 5: whose holy soul the stroke of fortune fled, precious of ills,
- 4:27:45Speaker 5: and leaving me behind to drink the dregs of life
- 4:27:49Speaker 5: by fate assigned beyond the goal of nature. I have
- 4:27:53Speaker 5: gone my palace late, set out, but reach'd too soon.
- 4:27:58Speaker 5: If for my league again against the Sonian state amidst
- 4:28:02Speaker 5: their weapons, I had found my fate deserved from them
- 4:28:06Speaker 5: than I had been returned a breathless victor, and my
- 4:28:10Speaker 5: son had mourned. Yet will I not my trojan friend
- 4:28:15Speaker 5: a braid nor grudge the alliance I so gladly made.
- 4:28:19Speaker 5: Twas not his fault my palace fell so young, but
- 4:28:23Speaker 5: my own crime for having lived too long. Yet, since
- 4:28:28Speaker 5: the gods had destined him to die, at least he
- 4:28:31Speaker 5: led the way to victory. First for his friends. He
- 4:28:35Speaker 5: won the fatal shore and sent whole herd of slaughtered
- 4:28:39Speaker 5: foes before a death too great, too glorious to deplore.
- 4:28:45Speaker 5: Nor will I add new honors to thy grave. Content
- 4:28:49Speaker 5: with those the Trojan hero gave that funeral pomp thy
- 4:28:53Speaker 5: Prjian friends designed in which the Tuscan chiefs and army
- 4:28:58Speaker 5: joined great spils and trophies gained by thee they bear,
- 4:29:03Speaker 5: Then let thy own achievements be thy share. Even thou
- 4:29:08Speaker 5: o Turnus hadst a trophy stood, whose mighty trunk had
- 4:29:12Speaker 5: better graced the wood, if Pallas had arrived with equal
- 4:29:17Speaker 5: length of years to match thy bulk with equal strength.
- 4:29:21Speaker 5: But why unhappy man, dost thou detain these troops to
- 4:29:26Speaker 5: view the tears thou shed'st in vain? Go friends this
- 4:29:31Speaker 5: message to your lord relate, tell him that if I
- 4:29:35Speaker 5: bear my bitter fate, and after Pallis's death live lingering
- 4:29:39Speaker 5: on Tis to behold his vengeance for my son, I
- 4:29:44Speaker 5: stay for Turnus, whose devoted head is owing to the
- 4:29:48Speaker 5: living and the dead. My son, and I expect it
- 4:29:52Speaker 5: from his hand. Tis all that he can give or
- 4:29:55Speaker 5: we demand.
- 4:29:57Speaker 6: Joy is no more, but.
- 4:29:59Speaker 5: I would gladly go go to greet my palace with
- 4:30:02Speaker 5: such news. Below, the morn had now dispelled the shades
- 4:30:07Speaker 5: of night, restoring toils. When she restored the light, the
- 4:30:12Speaker 5: Trojan King and Tuscan Chief command to raise the piles
- 4:30:16Speaker 5: along the winding strand their friends convey the dead funeral fires.
- 4:30:22Speaker 5: Black smoldering smoke from the green wood expires, the light
- 4:30:27Speaker 5: of heaven is choked, and the new day retires. Then
- 4:30:31Speaker 5: thrice around the kindled piles they go. For ancient custom
- 4:30:35Speaker 5: had ordained it, So thrice horse and foot about the
- 4:30:39Speaker 5: fires are led, and thrice with loud laments they hail
- 4:30:44Speaker 5: the dead, tears trickling down their breasts, but do the
- 4:30:48Speaker 5: ground and drums and trumpets mix their mournful sound. Amid
- 4:30:54Speaker 5: the blaze. Their pious brethren throw the spoils in battle,
- 4:30:58Speaker 5: taken from the foe, helms, bits embossed, and swords of
- 4:31:03Speaker 5: shining steel. One casts a target, one a chariot wheel,
- 4:31:08Speaker 5: Some to their fellows their own arms restore the falsions,
- 4:31:12Speaker 5: which in luckless fight they bore their bucklers pierced, and
- 4:31:17Speaker 5: their darts bestowed in vain and shivered lances gathered from
- 4:31:21Speaker 5: the plain whole. Herds of offered bulls about the fire,
- 4:31:26Speaker 5: and bristled boars and wooly sheep expire around the piles.
- 4:31:31Speaker 5: A careful troop attends to watch the wasting flames and
- 4:31:35Speaker 5: weep their burning friends lingering along the shore till dewy
- 4:31:40Speaker 5: night new decks the face of heaven with starry light.
- 4:31:44Speaker 5: The conquered lations, with like pious care, piles without number,
- 4:31:49Speaker 5: for their dead prepare part in the places where they
- 4:31:53Speaker 5: fell are laid, and part are to the neighboring fields conveyed.
- 4:31:58Speaker 5: The core of kings and captains of renown, born off
- 4:32:02Speaker 5: in state, are buried in the town. The rest, unhonored
- 4:32:07Speaker 5: and without a name, are cast a common heap to
- 4:32:10Speaker 5: feed the flame. Trojans and Latians vie with like desires
- 4:32:15Speaker 5: to make the field of battle shine with fires and
- 4:32:19Speaker 5: the promiscuous blaze to heaven aspires. Now had the morning
- 4:32:24Speaker 5: thrice renewed the light, and thrice dispelled the shadows of
- 4:32:28Speaker 5: the night. When those who round the wasted fires remain
- 4:32:33Speaker 5: perform the last sad office to the slain.
- 4:32:37Speaker 2: They rake the yet.
- 4:32:38Speaker 5: Warm ashes from below these and the bones unburned in earth.
- 4:32:43Speaker 5: Bestow these relics with their country rites. They grace and
- 4:32:48Speaker 5: raise a mount of turf to mark the place. But
- 4:32:52Speaker 5: in the palace of the king appears a scene more
- 4:32:55Speaker 5: solemn and a pomp of tears. Maids, matrons, widows met
- 4:33:00Speaker 5: the common moans, orphans, their sires, and sires lament their sons.
- 4:33:05Speaker 5: All in that universal sorrow, share and curse the cause
- 4:33:09Speaker 5: of this unhappy war, a broken league, a bride unjustly sought,
- 4:33:15Speaker 5: a crown usurped, which with their blood is bought. These
- 4:33:19Speaker 5: are the crimes with which they load the name of Turnus,
- 4:33:23Speaker 5: and on him alone exclaim, Let him who lords it
- 4:33:27Speaker 5: o'er the Asonian land engage the Trojan hero hand to hand.
- 4:33:32Speaker 5: His is the gain our lot is, but to serve
- 4:33:36Speaker 5: tis just though sway he seeks, he should deserve. This drants, as, aggravates,
- 4:33:42Speaker 5: and adds with spite. His foe expects and dares him
- 4:33:46Speaker 5: to the fight. Nor Turnus wants a party to support
- 4:33:50Speaker 5: his cause and credit in the Latian court. His former
- 4:33:53Speaker 5: acts secure his present fame, and the queen shades him
- 4:33:57Speaker 5: with her mighty name. While thus their factious minds with
- 4:34:01Speaker 5: fury burn. The legates from the Tolian prince return sad
- 4:34:06Speaker 5: news they bring that, after all the cost and care
- 4:34:10Speaker 5: employed their embassy is lost, that Diomedes refused his aid
- 4:34:15Speaker 5: in war, unmoved with presence, and as deaf to prayer.
- 4:34:19Speaker 5: Some new alliance must elsewhere be sought, or peace with
- 4:34:23Speaker 5: Troy on hard conditions bought. Latinus, sunk in sorrow, finds
- 4:34:29Speaker 5: too late a foreign sun is pointed out by fate,
- 4:34:33Speaker 5: and till Aeneus Shallovinia wed, the wrath of heaven is
- 4:34:37Speaker 5: hovering o'er his head. The gods he saw espoused the
- 4:34:41Speaker 5: juster side, when late their titles in the field were tried.
- 4:34:46Speaker 5: Witness the fresh laments and funeral tears undried. Thus, full
- 4:34:51Speaker 5: of anxious thought, he summons all the Latian Senate to
- 4:34:54Speaker 5: the council hall. The princes come, commanded by their head,
- 4:34:59Speaker 5: and crowd paths that to the palace. Led supreme in
- 4:35:03Speaker 5: power and reverenced for his years, he takes the throne
- 4:35:07Speaker 5: and in the midst appears majestically sad. He sits in
- 4:35:12Speaker 5: state and bids his envoys their success relate. When venulus began,
- 4:35:18Speaker 5: the murmuring sound was hushed, and sacred silence reigned round.
- 4:35:23Speaker 5: We have said, he performed your high command and passed
- 4:35:27Speaker 5: with peril a long tract of land. We reached the
- 4:35:31Speaker 5: place desired with wonder filled the greci intense and rising
- 4:35:35Speaker 5: towers beheld. Great Diomede has compassed round with walls the
- 4:35:40Speaker 5: city which our Jurippa, he calls from his own argos named.
- 4:35:45Speaker 5: We touched with joy the royal hand that raised unhappy Troy.
- 4:35:50Speaker 5: When introduced our presence first we bring, then crave an
- 4:35:54Speaker 5: instant audience from the king his leave obtained our native soil.
- 4:35:59Speaker 5: We need name and tell the important cause for which
- 4:36:03Speaker 5: we came. Attentively, He heard us while we spoke. Then,
- 4:36:07Speaker 5: with soft accents and a pleasing look, made this return
- 4:36:13Speaker 5: Asnian race of old, renowned for peace and for an
- 4:36:17Speaker 5: age of gold. What madness has your altered minds possessed
- 4:36:21Speaker 5: to change for war? Hereditary rest, solicit arms unknown and
- 4:36:27Speaker 5: tempt the sword, and needless ill your ancestors abhorred. We
- 4:36:33Speaker 5: for myself I speak and all the name of Grecians who,
- 4:36:36Speaker 5: to Troy's destruction came omitting those who were in battle slain,
- 4:36:42Speaker 5: or borne by rolling Simois to the main. Not one
- 4:36:46Speaker 5: but suffered, and too dearly bought the prize of honor
- 4:36:50Speaker 5: which in arms he sought. Some doomed to death, and
- 4:36:54Speaker 5: some in exile, driven outcasts, abandoned by the care of heaven,
- 4:37:00Speaker 5: so worn, so wretched, so despised a crew, as even
- 4:37:04Speaker 5: old Priam might with pity view witness the vessels by Minerva,
- 4:37:09Speaker 5: tossed in storms, the vengeful Katharian coast, the Euboean rocks,
- 4:37:14Speaker 5: the prince whose brother led our armies to revenge his
- 4:37:18Speaker 5: injured bed in Egypt lost Ulysses with his men have
- 4:37:22Speaker 5: seen Charibdis and the Cyclops den Why should I name
- 4:37:27Speaker 5: Idomeneus in vain, restored to scepters and expelled again, or
- 4:37:32Speaker 5: young Achilles by his rival slain even he the king
- 4:37:36Speaker 5: of men, the foremost name of all the Greeks, and
- 4:37:40Speaker 5: most renowned by fame, the proud revenger of another's wife,
- 4:37:44Speaker 5: yet by his own adulteress lost his life, fell at
- 4:37:49Speaker 5: his threshold, and the spoils of Troy, the foul polluters
- 4:37:53Speaker 5: of his bed, and joy the gods have envied me
- 4:37:56Speaker 5: the sweets of life, my much loved country and my
- 4:37:59Speaker 5: more loved wife banished from both, I mourn while in
- 4:38:04Speaker 5: the sky, transformed to birds, my lost companions fly hovering
- 4:38:10Speaker 5: about the coasts. They make their moan and cuff the
- 4:38:14Speaker 5: cliffs with pinions not their own. What squalid specters in
- 4:38:18Speaker 5: the dead of night break my short sleep and skim
- 4:38:22Speaker 5: before my sight. I might have promised to myself those
- 4:38:26Speaker 5: harms mad as I was when I with mortal arms
- 4:38:31Speaker 5: presumed against immortal powers to move and violate with wounds
- 4:38:36Speaker 5: the Queen of love, such arms this hand shall never
- 4:38:41Speaker 5: more employ. No hate remains with me to ruined Troy.
- 4:38:46Speaker 5: I war not with its dust, Nor am I glad
- 4:38:50Speaker 5: to think of past events, or good or bad your presence.
- 4:38:54Speaker 5: I return whate'er you bring to buy my friendship. Send
- 4:38:58Speaker 5: the Trojan king we met in fight. I know him
- 4:39:02Speaker 5: to my cost. With what a whirling force his lance
- 4:39:06Speaker 5: he tossed, heavens, what a spring was in his arm
- 4:39:10Speaker 5: to throw? How high he held his shield and rose
- 4:39:13Speaker 5: at every blow. Had Troy produced two more his match
- 4:39:17Speaker 5: in might, they would have changed the fortune of the fight.
- 4:39:21Speaker 5: The invasion of the Greeks had been returned, our empire
- 4:39:25Speaker 5: wasted and our cities burned. The long defense the Trojan
- 4:39:29Speaker 5: people made, the war protracted, and the siege delayed were
- 4:39:34Speaker 5: due to Hector's and this hero's hand, both brave alike
- 4:39:38Speaker 5: and equal in command, Aeneas not inferior in the field.
- 4:39:43Speaker 5: In pious reverence to the gods excelled, make peace elations
- 4:39:48Speaker 5: and avoid with care them pending dangers of a fatal war.
- 4:39:53Speaker 5: He said no more, but with this cold excuse, refused
- 4:39:59Speaker 5: the alliance and advised a truce. Thus Venulus concluded his report.
- 4:40:06Speaker 5: A jarring murmur filled the factious court, as when a
- 4:40:10Speaker 5: torrent rolls with rapid force and dashes o'er the stones
- 4:40:14Speaker 5: that stop the course. The flood, constrained within a scanty space,
- 4:40:20Speaker 5: roars horrible along the uneasy race. White foam in gathering.
- 4:40:25Speaker 5: Eddy's floats around the rocky shores rebellow to the sound
- 4:40:31Speaker 5: the murmur ceased. Then, from his lofty throne, the king
- 4:40:34Speaker 5: invoked the gods, and thus begun I wish yelations what
- 4:40:40Speaker 5: we now debate had been resolved before it was too late.
- 4:40:44Speaker 5: Much better had it been for you and me enforced
- 4:40:48Speaker 5: by this our last necessity two have been earlier wise
- 4:40:53Speaker 5: than now to call a council. When the foe surrounds
- 4:40:57Speaker 5: the wall, o citizens, we wage unequal war with men,
- 4:41:02Speaker 5: not only Heaven's peculiar care, but Heaven's own race, unconquered
- 4:41:07Speaker 5: in the field, or conquered yet unknowing how to yield.
- 4:41:12Speaker 5: What hopes you had in Diomedes lay down. Our hopes
- 4:41:16Speaker 5: must center on ourselves alone. Yet those, how feeble, and
- 4:41:21Speaker 5: indeed how vain, you see too well, nor need my
- 4:41:25Speaker 5: words explain, vanquished without resource, laid flat by fate, factions
- 4:41:32Speaker 5: within a foe, without the gait not. But I grant
- 4:41:36Speaker 5: that all performed their parts with manly force and with
- 4:41:40Speaker 5: undaunted hearts, with our united strength. The war we waged
- 4:41:45Speaker 5: with equal numbers, equal arms engaged. You see the event.
- 4:41:51Speaker 5: Now hear what I propose to save our friends and
- 4:41:55Speaker 5: satisfy our foes. Attract of land. The Latians have been
- 4:42:00Speaker 5: pozzest along the Tiber, stretching to the west, which now
- 4:42:04Speaker 5: Rutulians and Aruncans till, and their mixed cattle graze the
- 4:42:09Speaker 5: fruitful hill, those mountains filled with firs, that lower land.
- 4:42:14Speaker 5: If you consent, the trojan shall command called into part
- 4:42:19Speaker 5: of what is ours, and there on terms agreed the
- 4:42:23Speaker 5: common country share there. Let them build and settle if
- 4:42:27Speaker 5: they please, unless they choose once more to cross the
- 4:42:31Speaker 5: seas in search of seats remote from Italy and from
- 4:42:35Speaker 5: unwelcome inmates. Set us free. Then twice ten galleys. Let
- 4:42:41Speaker 5: us build with speed, or twice as many more if
- 4:42:44Speaker 5: more they need. Materials are at hand. A well grown
- 4:42:48Speaker 5: wood runs equal with the margin of the flood. Let
- 4:42:52Speaker 5: them the number and the form, assign the care and
- 4:42:56Speaker 5: cost of all the stores.
- 4:42:58Speaker 2: Be mine.
- 4:42:59Speaker 5: To treat the peace. A hundred senators shall be commissioned,
- 4:43:03Speaker 5: hence with ample powers, with olive the presence. They shall
- 4:43:07Speaker 5: bear a purple robe, a royal ivory chair, and all
- 4:43:11Speaker 5: the marks of sway that Latian monarchs wear, and sums
- 4:43:15Speaker 5: of gold among yourselves. Debate this great affair and save
- 4:43:20Speaker 5: the sinking state. Then Drances took the word, who grudged
- 4:43:25Speaker 5: long since the rising glories of the Donian prince. Factious
- 4:43:30Speaker 5: and rich, bold the council board, but cautious in the field,
- 4:43:35Speaker 5: he shunned the sword. A close cobbler and tongue valiant
- 4:43:40Speaker 5: lord noble his mother was and near the throne, but
- 4:43:45Speaker 5: what his father's parentage unknown. He rose and took the
- 4:43:49Speaker 5: advantage of the times to load young turnus with invidious crimes.
- 4:43:55Speaker 5: Such truths, O King, said he, your words contain as
- 4:43:59Speaker 5: strike the sense, and all replies are vain, Nor are
- 4:44:03Speaker 5: your loyal subjects. Now to seek what common needs require,
- 4:44:07Speaker 5: but fear to speak. Let him give leave of speech,
- 4:44:12Speaker 5: that haughty man whose pride this unauspicious war began for
- 4:44:17Speaker 5: whose ambition, let me dare to say, fear set apart,
- 4:44:21Speaker 5: though death is in my way. The plains of Latiam
- 4:44:24Speaker 5: run with blood. Around so many valiant heroes bite the
- 4:44:29Speaker 5: ground dejected grief in every face appears a town in
- 4:44:34Speaker 5: mourning and a land in tears. While he the undoubted
- 4:44:38Speaker 5: author of our harms, the man who menaces the gods
- 4:44:42Speaker 5: with arms. Yet after all his boasts, forsook the fight
- 4:44:47Speaker 5: and sought his safety in ignoble flight. Now, best of Kings,
- 4:44:52Speaker 5: since you propose to send such bounteous presents to your
- 4:44:56Speaker 5: trojan friend, add yet a greater at our joint request,
- 4:45:01Speaker 5: one which he values more than all the rest. Give
- 4:45:05Speaker 5: him the fair Lavinia for his bride. With that alliance,
- 4:45:09Speaker 5: let the league be tied, and for the bleeding land
- 4:45:13Speaker 5: a lasting peace provide let insolence no longer awe the throne,
- 4:45:19Speaker 5: but with a father's right, bestow your own for this
- 4:45:23Speaker 5: maligner of the general good. If still we fear his force,
- 4:45:27Speaker 5: he must be wooed his haughty Godhead. We with prayers
- 4:45:32Speaker 5: implore your scepter to release and our just rights restore
- 4:45:37Speaker 5: o cursed cause of all our ills. Must we wage
- 4:45:41Speaker 5: wars unjust and fall in fight for thee What right
- 4:45:46Speaker 5: hast thou to rule the Latian state and send us
- 4:45:49Speaker 5: out to meet our certain fate? 'tis a destructive war
- 4:45:53Speaker 5: from Turnu's hand, our peace and public safety. We demand
- 4:45:59Speaker 5: let the fair bride to the brave chief remain. If not,
- 4:46:03Speaker 5: the peace without the pledge is vain turn us, I
- 4:46:08Speaker 5: know you think me not your friend, nor will I
- 4:46:11Speaker 5: much with your belief contend. I beg your greatness not
- 4:46:15Speaker 5: to give the law in others realms, but beaten to withdraw,
- 4:46:21Speaker 5: pity your own or pity our estate, nor twist our
- 4:46:25Speaker 5: fortunes with your sinking fate. Your interest is the war
- 4:46:30Speaker 5: should never cease. But we have felt enough to wish
- 4:46:34Speaker 5: the peace. A land exhausted to the last remains, depopulated
- 4:46:40Speaker 5: towns and driven plains. Yet, if desire of fame and
- 4:46:45Speaker 5: thirst of power a beauteous princess with a crown endowur,
- 4:46:50Speaker 5: So fire your mind in arms, assert your right, and
- 4:46:54Speaker 5: meet your foe who dares you to the fight. Mankind,
- 4:46:59Speaker 5: it seems is made for you alone. We but the
- 4:47:02Speaker 5: slaves who mount you to the throne, a base, ignoble crowd,
- 4:47:07Speaker 5: without a name, unwept, unworthy of the funeral flame, by duty,
- 4:47:13Speaker 5: bound to forfeit each his life, that turnus may possess
- 4:47:17Speaker 5: a royal wife. Permit, not, mighty man, so mean a
- 4:47:22Speaker 5: crew should share such triumphs, and detain from you the
- 4:47:27Speaker 5: post of honor, your undoubted due. Rather alone, your matchless force,
- 4:47:32Speaker 5: employ to merit what alone you must enjoy. End of
- 4:47:38Speaker 5: Book eleven, Part one.
- 4:47:40Speaker 6: Book eleven, Debaters and a Warrior Girl, Part two. These words,
- 4:47:47Speaker 6: so full of malice, mixed with art, inflamed with rage,
- 4:47:51Speaker 6: the youthful hero's heart then, groaning from the bottom of
- 4:47:55Speaker 6: his breast, he heaved to wind, and thus his wrath expressed.
- 4:48:00Speaker 6: You drances, never want a stream of words. Then, when
- 4:48:04Speaker 6: the public need requires our swords, first in the council
- 4:48:08Speaker 6: hall to steer the state, and ever foremost in a
- 4:48:11Speaker 6: tongue debate, while our strong walls secure us from the
- 4:48:15Speaker 6: foe ere yet with blood our ditches overflow. But let
- 4:48:20Speaker 6: the potent orator declaim, and with the brand of coward
- 4:48:24Speaker 6: blot my name. Free leave is given him, when his
- 4:48:27Speaker 6: fatal hand has covered with more corpse, the sentrant strand
- 4:48:31Speaker 6: and highest mind, his towering trophies stand. If any doubt remains,
- 4:48:36Speaker 6: who dares the most? Let us decide it at the
- 4:48:39Speaker 6: trojan's cost, and issue both abreast whereon our calls. Foes
- 4:48:44Speaker 6: are not far to seek without the walls, unless his
- 4:48:48Speaker 6: noisy tongue can only fight, and feet were given him.
- 4:48:51Speaker 6: But the speed is flight. I beaten from the field,
- 4:48:55Speaker 6: I forced away, Who but so known a dastard dares
- 4:48:59Speaker 6: to say, had ye but even beheld the fight his
- 4:49:03Speaker 6: eyes had witnessed for me? What his tongue denies, what
- 4:49:07Speaker 6: heaps of Trojans by this hand was slain, And how
- 4:49:10Speaker 6: the bloody tibers swelled the mane all saw but he
- 4:49:14Speaker 6: The Arcadian troops retire in scattered squadrons, and their prince expire.
- 4:49:19Speaker 6: The giant brothers in their camp have found I was
- 4:49:22Speaker 6: not forced with ease to quit my ground. Not such
- 4:49:26Speaker 6: the Trojans tried me when enclos'd I singly their united
- 4:49:30Speaker 6: arms opposed, first forced an entrance through their thick array,
- 4:49:34Speaker 6: then glutted with their slaughter. Freed my way tis a
- 4:49:39Speaker 6: destructive war, so let it be, but to the Phrigin
- 4:49:42Speaker 6: Pirate and to thee meantime, proceed to fill their people's
- 4:49:47Speaker 6: ears with false reports, their minds with panic fears, extoll
- 4:49:51Speaker 6: the strength of a twice conquered race. Our foes encourage,
- 4:49:55Speaker 6: and our friends debays, believe thy fables, and the Trojan
- 4:49:59Speaker 6: tongue triumphant stands. The Grecians are overthrone, suppliant at Hector's feet,
- 4:50:05Speaker 6: a kilos lies, and Diomede from fierce eneas flies say,
- 4:50:10Speaker 6: rapid Offetus, with awful dread, runs backward from the sea
- 4:50:14Speaker 6: and hides his head when the great Trojan on his
- 4:50:17Speaker 6: bank appears. For that's as true as thy dissembled fears
- 4:50:21Speaker 6: of my revenge. Dismiss that vanity. Thou drances art below
- 4:50:26Speaker 6: a death from me. Let that vile soul in that
- 4:50:29Speaker 6: vile body rest. The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
- 4:50:34Speaker 6: Now royal father, to the present state of our affairs,
- 4:50:37Speaker 6: and of this high debate. If in your arms thus
- 4:50:40Speaker 6: early you'd defied, and think your fortune is already tried.
- 4:50:44Speaker 6: If one defeat has brought us down so low as
- 4:50:48Speaker 6: never more in fields to meet the foe, then I
- 4:50:51Speaker 6: conclude for peace tis time to treat, and lie like
- 4:50:55Speaker 6: vessels at the victor's feet. But oh, if any ancient
- 4:50:59Speaker 6: blood remains one drop of all our fathers in our veins,
- 4:51:04Speaker 6: that man would I prefer before the rest, who dared
- 4:51:07Speaker 6: as death with an undaunted breast, who calmly fell by
- 4:51:12Speaker 6: no dishonest wound, to shun that sight and dying gnard
- 4:51:16Speaker 6: the ground. But if we still have fresh recruits in store,
- 4:51:21Speaker 6: if our confederates can afford us more, if the contented
- 4:51:25Speaker 6: field we bravely fought, and not a bloodless victory was bought,
- 4:51:30Speaker 6: their loss is equaled ours. And for their slain, with
- 4:51:33Speaker 6: equal fires, they filled the shining plain. Why thus, unforced
- 4:51:38Speaker 6: should we so tamely yield and ere the trumpet sounds
- 4:51:42Speaker 6: resign the field? Good unexpected evils, unforeseen appear by turns.
- 4:51:48Speaker 6: As fortune shifts the scene. Some raised aloft come tumbling
- 4:51:53Speaker 6: down a main, then fall so hard they bound and
- 4:51:56Speaker 6: rise again. If di Amede refuse him aid to land.
- 4:52:01Speaker 6: The great Massapus yet remains our friend. Calumnius, who foretells
- 4:52:05Speaker 6: events is ours. The Italian chiefs and princes join their powers,
- 4:52:10Speaker 6: nor least in number nor in name, the last your own,
- 4:52:14Speaker 6: brave subjects, have your cause embraced above the rest. The
- 4:52:18Speaker 6: Volscian Amazon contains an army in herself alone and heads
- 4:52:23Speaker 6: a squadron terrible to sight, with glittering shields, in brazen
- 4:52:27Speaker 6: armor bright. Yet if the foe a single fight, demand
- 4:52:32Speaker 6: and I alone the public peace withstand. If you consent,
- 4:52:36Speaker 6: he shall not be refused, nor find a hand to
- 4:52:39Speaker 6: victory unused this new Achilles, let him take the field
- 4:52:44Speaker 6: with fated armor and Volcanian shield. For you, my royal father,
- 4:52:49Speaker 6: and my fame. I turnus not the least of all
- 4:52:53Speaker 6: my name, devote my soul. He calls me hand to hand,
- 4:52:58Speaker 6: and I alone will answer his demand. Drances shall rest secure,
- 4:53:02Speaker 6: and neither share the danger nor divide the prize of
- 4:53:05Speaker 6: war while they debate, Nor these nor those will yield.
- 4:53:11Speaker 6: And Ears draws his forces to the field and moves
- 4:53:14Speaker 6: his camp. The scouts with flying speed return and through
- 4:53:18Speaker 6: the frighted city spread the unpleasing news. The Trojans are
- 4:53:22Speaker 6: descried in battle, marching by the river side and bending
- 4:53:25Speaker 6: to the town. They take the alarm, some tremble, some
- 4:53:29Speaker 6: are bold, all in confusion arm The impetuous youth press
- 4:53:34Speaker 6: forward to the field. They clash the sword and clatter
- 4:53:37Speaker 6: on the shield. The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.
- 4:53:41Speaker 6: Old feeble men with fainter groans reply. A jarring sound
- 4:53:46Speaker 6: results and mingles in the sky like that of swans
- 4:53:49Speaker 6: remurmuring to the floods, or birds of different kinds in
- 4:53:53Speaker 6: hollow woods. Turn us the occasion takes and cries aloud.
- 4:53:58Speaker 6: Talk on you, quaint ha wrangers of the crowd declaim
- 4:54:02Speaker 6: in praise of peace. When danger calls and the fierce
- 4:54:05Speaker 6: foes in arms approach the walls, he said, and turning
- 4:54:09Speaker 6: short with speedy pace, cast back at scornful glance, and
- 4:54:13Speaker 6: quits the place. Thou volluses the Volscian troops. Command to
- 4:54:18Speaker 6: mount and lead thyself our Ardian band Masappas and Catillus.
- 4:54:23Speaker 6: Post your force along the fields to charge the Trojan haunts.
- 4:54:27Speaker 6: Some guard the passes, others manned the wall, drawn up
- 4:54:31Speaker 6: in arms. The rest attend my call. They swarm from
- 4:54:36Speaker 6: every quarter of the town, and with disordered haste the
- 4:54:39Speaker 6: rampire's crown, good Old Latinus, when he saw too late
- 4:54:43Speaker 6: the gathering storm just breaking on the state, dismissed the
- 4:54:47Speaker 6: council till a fitter time, and owned his easy temper
- 4:54:50Speaker 6: as his crime, who forced against his reason, had complied
- 4:54:54Speaker 6: to break the treaty for the promised bride. Some help
- 4:54:58Speaker 6: to sink new trenches. Others aid to rend the stones
- 4:55:01Speaker 6: or raise the palisade. Horse trumpets sound alarm. Around the walls.
- 4:55:06Speaker 6: Runs a distracted crew, whom their lost labor calls a
- 4:55:10Speaker 6: sad procession. In the streets is seen of matrons that
- 4:55:13Speaker 6: attend the mother Queen. High in her chair, she sits,
- 4:55:17Speaker 6: and at her side, with downcast eyes, appears the fatal bride.
- 4:55:22Speaker 6: They mount the cliff where palace temples stands, prayers in
- 4:55:26Speaker 6: their mouths, and presents in their hands with censers. First
- 4:55:29Speaker 6: they fume the sacred shrine. Then, in this common supplication,
- 4:55:33Speaker 6: join o patroness of arms, unspotted maid, propitious here and
- 4:55:39Speaker 6: lend thy latins aid break short the pirate glance, pronounce
- 4:55:43Speaker 6: his fate, and lay the friggin low before the gate.
- 4:55:48Speaker 6: Now turn his arms for fight. His back and breast
- 4:55:51Speaker 6: well tempered steel and scaly brass invest the quishes which
- 4:55:55Speaker 6: his brawny thighs infold are mingled metal damaged. O'er with gold,
- 4:56:00Speaker 6: his faithful fortun sits upon his side. Nor cask nor
- 4:56:04Speaker 6: crest his manly features hide, but bear to view amid
- 4:56:09Speaker 6: surrounding friends with godlike grace. He from the tower descends,
- 4:56:14Speaker 6: exulting in his strength. He seems to dare his absent
- 4:56:17Speaker 6: rival and to promise war. Freed from his keepers. Thus,
- 4:56:21Speaker 6: with broken reins, the wanton courser prances o'er the plains,
- 4:56:26Speaker 6: or in the pride of youth, o'erleaps the mounts and
- 4:56:29Speaker 6: snuffs the females in forbidden grounds, or seeks his watering
- 4:56:33Speaker 6: in the well known flood to quench his thirst and
- 4:56:35Speaker 6: cool his fiery blood. He swims luxuriant in the liquid plain,
- 4:56:40Speaker 6: and o'er his shoulder flows his waving mane. He neighs,
- 4:56:44Speaker 6: he snorts, he bears his head on high before his
- 4:56:48Speaker 6: ample chest. The frothy waters fly soon as the prince
- 4:56:52Speaker 6: appears without the gait. The Volscians with their virgin leader
- 4:56:56Speaker 6: weigh his last commands. Then with a graceful mien, lights
- 4:57:00Speaker 6: from her lofty steed. The warrior queen, her squadron imitates,
- 4:57:04Speaker 6: and each descents whose common suit Camelidus commands. If sense
- 4:57:09Speaker 6: of honor, if a soul secure of inborn worth, that
- 4:57:13Speaker 6: can all tests, endure, can promise aught or on itself
- 4:57:17Speaker 6: rely greatly to dare, to conquer or to die, then I, alone,
- 4:57:22Speaker 6: sustained by these, will meet the thereine troops and promise
- 4:57:26Speaker 6: their defeat. Ours be the danger ours the sole renown
- 4:57:31Speaker 6: you general, stay behind and guard the town. Turnus a
- 4:57:36Speaker 6: while stood mute with glad surprise, and on the fierce
- 4:57:40Speaker 6: virago fixed his eyes. Then thus returned O grace of Italy,
- 4:57:46Speaker 6: with what becoming thanks? Can I reply not only words
- 4:57:50Speaker 6: lie laboring in my breast, but thought itself is, by
- 4:57:53Speaker 6: their praise oppressed, yet rob me not of all, But
- 4:57:56Speaker 6: let me join my toils, my hazard, and my fame
- 4:58:00Speaker 6: with thine. The trojan not in stratagemens killed, sends his
- 4:58:05Speaker 6: light horse before to scour the field himself through steep
- 4:58:09Speaker 6: ascents and thorny brakes. A larger compass to the city
- 4:58:12Speaker 6: takes this news my scouts confirm, and I prepared to
- 4:58:17Speaker 6: foil his cunning and his force, to dare with chosen
- 4:58:20Speaker 6: foot his passage to furley, and place an ambush in
- 4:58:23Speaker 6: the widening way. Thou, with thy Volscians, face the Tuscan
- 4:58:27Speaker 6: halls the brave Massappas, shall thy troops enforce with those
- 4:58:31Speaker 6: of Tiber and a Latian band subjected all to thy
- 4:58:34Speaker 6: supreme command. This said, he warns, Massapas to the war
- 4:58:39Speaker 6: than every chief exhorts with equal care all ths Encouraged
- 4:58:44Speaker 6: his own troops, he joins and hastes to prosecute his
- 4:58:47Speaker 6: deep designs. Inclose with hills, a winding valley lies by nature,
- 4:58:53Speaker 6: formed for fraud and fitted for surprise. A narrow track
- 4:58:57Speaker 6: by human steps, untroded lee through perplexing thorns. To this
- 4:59:02Speaker 6: obscure abode. High over the vale, a steepy mountain stands.
- 4:59:07Speaker 6: Whence the surveying sight the nether ground commands. The top
- 4:59:11Speaker 6: is level, an offensive seat of war, and from the
- 4:59:14Speaker 6: war a safe retreat. For on the right and left
- 4:59:18Speaker 6: is room to press the foes at hand or from
- 4:59:20Speaker 6: a far distress, to drive him headlong downward, and to
- 4:59:24Speaker 6: pour on their descending backs. A stony shower. Thither young
- 4:59:28Speaker 6: turners took the well known way, possessed the pass, and
- 4:59:31Speaker 6: in blind ambush lay meantime, Latonian phoebe from the skies,
- 4:59:37Speaker 6: beheld approaching war with hateful eyes, and called the lightfoot
- 4:59:41Speaker 6: Opis to her aid her most beloved and ever trust
- 4:59:44Speaker 6: he made. Then with a sigh began Camilla goes to
- 4:59:49Speaker 6: meet her death amidst her fatal foes. The nymphs I
- 4:59:52Speaker 6: loved of all my mortal train invested with Diana's arms
- 4:59:56Speaker 6: in vain. Nor is my kindness for the virgin new
- 5:00:00Speaker 6: twas born with her, and with her years it grew.
- 5:00:03Speaker 6: Her father Metabus, when forced away from old Prevernum for
- 5:00:07Speaker 6: tyrannic sway, snatched up and saved from his prevailing foes.
- 5:00:11Speaker 6: This tender babe companion of his woes, Casmilla was our mother.
- 5:00:16Speaker 6: But he drowned one hissing letter in a softer sound,
- 5:00:19Speaker 6: and called Camilla. Through the woods he flies, wrapped in
- 5:00:23Speaker 6: his robe. The royal infant lies his foes in sight.
- 5:00:27Speaker 6: He ments his wary pace with shout and clamors. They
- 5:00:30Speaker 6: pursue the chaise the banks of amesne At length he
- 5:00:34Speaker 6: gains the raging flood. His farther flight restrains raised o'er
- 5:00:39Speaker 6: the borders with unusual reins, prepared to plunge into the stream.
- 5:00:43Speaker 6: He fears not for himself, but for the charge he bears. Anxious,
- 5:00:48Speaker 6: he stops awhile and thinks in haste. Then, desperate, in distress,
- 5:00:52Speaker 6: resolves at last a knotty lance of well boiled oak.
- 5:00:56Speaker 6: He bore the middle part with cork. He covered o'er.
- 5:00:59Speaker 6: He clothed the child within the hollow space with twigs
- 5:01:02Speaker 6: of bending osure bound the case. Then poised the spear,
- 5:01:06Speaker 6: heavy with human weight, and thus invoked my favor.
- 5:01:09Speaker 5: For the freight.
- 5:01:11Speaker 6: Accept, great Goddess of the woods. And thus invoked my
- 5:01:14Speaker 6: favor for the freight, Accept, Great Goddess of the woods.
- 5:01:18Speaker 6: He said, send by her sire, this dedicated maid through air.
- 5:01:22Speaker 6: She flies a supplant to thy shrine. And the first
- 5:01:25Speaker 6: weapons that she knows are thine, he said, And with
- 5:01:29Speaker 6: full force the spear he threw above the sounding waves.
- 5:01:32Speaker 6: Camilla flew. Then, pressed by foes, he stemmed the stormy
- 5:01:37Speaker 6: tide and gained by stress of arms the farther side.
- 5:01:41Speaker 6: His fastened spear he pulled from out the ground and
- 5:01:44Speaker 6: victor of his vows, his infant nymph unbound, nor after
- 5:01:49Speaker 6: that in towns which walls enclose would trust his hunted
- 5:01:52Speaker 6: life amidst his foes, but rough in open air, he
- 5:01:56Speaker 6: chose to lie. Earth was his couch. His covering was
- 5:01:59Speaker 6: the sky. On hills unshorn, or in a desert den.
- 5:02:04Speaker 6: He shunned the dire society of men, a shepherd's solitary life.
- 5:02:08Speaker 6: He led his daughter with the milk of mares, He
- 5:02:11Speaker 6: fed the ducks of bears, and every salvage beast. He
- 5:02:15Speaker 6: drew and threw her lips. The liquor pressed. The little
- 5:02:18Speaker 6: amazon could scarcely go. He loads her with a quiver
- 5:02:22Speaker 6: and a bow, and that she might her staggering steps command.
- 5:02:26Speaker 6: He with a slender javelin fills her hand, her flowing hair,
- 5:02:30Speaker 6: no golden filet bound, nor swept her trailing robe the
- 5:02:33Speaker 6: dusty ground. Instead of these, a tiger's hide overspread her back,
- 5:02:37Speaker 6: and shoulders fastened to her head. The flying dart she
- 5:02:41Speaker 6: first attempted to fling and round her tender temples, tossed
- 5:02:45Speaker 6: the sling. Then, as her strength with years increased, began
- 5:02:49Speaker 6: to pierce aloft in air. The soaring swan and from
- 5:02:53Speaker 6: the clouds to fetch the heron and the crane. The
- 5:02:56Speaker 6: Tuscan matrons with each other vied to bless their eyes
- 5:03:00Speaker 6: sons with such a bride, but she disdains their love
- 5:03:04Speaker 6: to share with me the Sylvan shades, and vowed virginity.
- 5:03:08Speaker 6: And oh I wish contented with my cares of salvage spoils.
- 5:03:13Speaker 6: She had not sought the wars, then had she been
- 5:03:16Speaker 6: of my celestial train and shunned the fate that dooms
- 5:03:19Speaker 6: her to be slain. But since opposing Heaven's decree, she
- 5:03:23Speaker 6: goes to find her death among forbidden foes. Haste with
- 5:03:27Speaker 6: these arms and take thy steepy flight, where with the
- 5:03:30Speaker 6: God's averse the Latin's fight, this bow to thee, this quiver,
- 5:03:34Speaker 6: I bequeath this chosen arrow to revenge her death. By
- 5:03:39Speaker 6: whatever hand Camille shall be slain, or of the Trojan
- 5:03:42Speaker 6: or Italian train, let him not pass unpunish from the plain.
- 5:03:47Speaker 6: Then in a hollow cloud, myself will aid to bear
- 5:03:50Speaker 6: the breathless body of my maid, unspoilt shall be her arms,
- 5:03:55Speaker 6: and unprofan'd her holy limbs with any human hand, And
- 5:04:00Speaker 6: in a marble tomb laid in her native land. She said,
- 5:04:04Speaker 6: the faithful nymph descends from high with rapid flight, and
- 5:04:08Speaker 6: cuts the sounding sky, black clouds and stormy winds around
- 5:04:13Speaker 6: her body. Fly By this, the Trojan and the Tuscan halls,
- 5:04:18Speaker 6: drawn up in squadrons with united fools, approach the walls.
- 5:04:23Speaker 6: The sprightly cousers bound, press forward on their bits and
- 5:04:26Speaker 6: shift their ground shields. Arms and spears flash horribly from far,
- 5:04:32Speaker 6: and the fields glitter with a waving war. Opposed to
- 5:04:35Speaker 6: these come on with furious falls. Messapus, Chorus and Alatian horse.
- 5:04:40Speaker 6: These in the body, placed on either hand, sustained and
- 5:04:44Speaker 6: clothed by fair Camilla's band, Advancing in a line, they
- 5:04:48Speaker 6: couch their spears, and less and less the middle space appears.
- 5:04:52Speaker 6: Thick smoke obscures the field, and scares are seen that
- 5:04:56Speaker 6: neighing courses, and the shouting men in distance of their yards.
- 5:05:00Speaker 6: They stop their course. Then, man to man they rush,
- 5:05:04Speaker 6: and horse to harse the face of heaven. Their flying
- 5:05:08Speaker 6: javelins hide, and deaths unseen are dealt on either side.
- 5:05:12Speaker 6: Tyrrhenus and Acontius, void of fear by metaled causes borne
- 5:05:17Speaker 6: in full career meet first opposed, and with a mighty shock,
- 5:05:21Speaker 6: their horses heads against each other, knock far from his
- 5:05:25Speaker 6: steed is fierce a contius cast, as with an engine's
- 5:05:28Speaker 6: falls or lightnings blast. He rolls along in blood and
- 5:05:32Speaker 6: breathes last. The Latin squadrons take a sudden fright and
- 5:05:36Speaker 6: sling their shields behind to save their backs. In flight,
- 5:05:40Speaker 6: spurring at speed to their own walls, they drew close
- 5:05:43Speaker 6: in the rear that Tuscan troops pursue and urge their
- 5:05:46Speaker 6: flight Ascelus leads the chase, till seized with shame, they
- 5:05:52Speaker 6: wheel about and face receive their foes and raise a
- 5:05:55Speaker 6: threatening cry. The Duscans take their turn to fear and
- 5:05:59Speaker 6: fly so swelling surges with a thundering roar, driven on
- 5:06:04Speaker 6: each other's backs, and sought the shore bound o'er the
- 5:06:07Speaker 6: rocks encroach upon the land, and far upon the beach,
- 5:06:10Speaker 6: eject the sand them backwards with a swing. They take
- 5:06:14Speaker 6: their way, repulse from upper ground, and seek their mother
- 5:06:17Speaker 6: sea with equal hurry, Quickly invaded shawl and swallow back
- 5:06:21Speaker 6: the sand and stones they spot before twice with the
- 5:06:26Speaker 6: Tuscans masters of the field, twice by the Latins in
- 5:06:29Speaker 6: their turn, repelled, ashamed at length to the third charts.
- 5:06:33Speaker 6: They ran, Both hosts resolved and mingled.
- 5:06:36Speaker 2: Man to man.
- 5:06:38Speaker 6: Now dying groans are heard. The fields are strode with
- 5:06:41Speaker 6: falling bodies and are drunk with blood. Arms, horses, men
- 5:06:47Speaker 6: on heaps together lie confuse the fight, and more confused
- 5:06:51Speaker 6: the cry Orsulochus, who durst not press too near a
- 5:06:55Speaker 6: strong remulus a distance, drove his spear and stuck the
- 5:06:59Speaker 6: steel beneath his horse's ear. The fairy steed, impatient of
- 5:07:04Speaker 6: the wound, curvets and springing upwards with a bound His
- 5:07:08Speaker 6: helpless lord cast backward on the ground. Catillus pierced Iola's
- 5:07:13Speaker 6: first then drew his reeking glance and at Herminius through
- 5:07:17Speaker 6: the mighty champion of the Tuscan crew. His neck and
- 5:07:21Speaker 6: throat unarmed, His head was bare, but shaded with a
- 5:07:24Speaker 6: length of yellow hair.
- 5:07:26Speaker 2: Secure.
- 5:07:26Speaker 6: He fought, exposed on every part, a spacious mark for
- 5:07:30Speaker 6: swords and for the flying dart across the shoulders came
- 5:07:34Speaker 6: the felid wound transfixed, he fell and doubled to the ground.
- 5:07:38Speaker 6: The sands, with streaming blood are sanguine died, and death
- 5:07:42Speaker 6: with honor sought on either side resistless. Through the war,
- 5:07:47Speaker 6: Camilla rode in danger, unappalled and pleased with blood. One
- 5:07:52Speaker 6: side was bare for her exerted breast, one shoulder, with
- 5:07:56Speaker 6: her painted quiver pressed now from afar, her fatal javelins play.
- 5:08:01Speaker 6: Now with her ax's edge, she hews her way Diana's
- 5:08:04Speaker 6: arms upon her shoulders sound, and when too closely pressed
- 5:08:08Speaker 6: she quits the ground. From her bent bow, she sends
- 5:08:11Speaker 6: a backward wound. Her maids in martial pomp on either side,
- 5:08:16Speaker 6: Lareina Tullah, fierce Tarpeia ride Italians all in peace, their
- 5:08:22Speaker 6: Queen's delight in war, the bold companions of the fight
- 5:08:26Speaker 6: so marched the Thracian Amazons of old, when Thermodon, with
- 5:08:30Speaker 6: bloody billows rolled, such troops as these in shining arms
- 5:08:34Speaker 6: were seen when theseus met in fight their maiden queen,
- 5:08:39Speaker 6: such to the field. Penthesilea led from the fierce Virgin,
- 5:08:43Speaker 6: when the Gracians fled with such returned triumphant from the war.
- 5:08:48Speaker 6: Her maids with cries at tend the lofty car. They
- 5:08:51Speaker 6: clash with many foalds, their moony shields, with female shouts
- 5:08:55Speaker 6: resound the Phrygin fields, who foremost and who last road
- 5:09:00Speaker 6: made on the cold earth, where by thy courage laid
- 5:09:04Speaker 6: thy spear of mountain ash Eumenius first, with fury, driven
- 5:09:08Speaker 6: from side to side, transpierced, a purple stream came spouting
- 5:09:12Speaker 6: from the wound. Bathed in his blood, he lies and
- 5:09:16Speaker 6: bites the ground. Laris and Pegasus at once. She slew
- 5:09:20Speaker 6: the former as the slackened reins. He drew over his
- 5:09:23Speaker 6: faint steed, the latter as he stretched his arm to
- 5:09:26Speaker 6: prop his friend the javelin reached by the same weapon
- 5:09:30Speaker 6: sent from the same hand. Both fall together and both
- 5:09:33Speaker 6: spurn the sand. A mastres next is added to the
- 5:09:36Speaker 6: slain the rest. In round, she follows O'er, the plain, Tereus, Harpalachus, Damophone,
- 5:09:43Speaker 6: and Chromis at full speed. Her fury shun of all
- 5:09:47Speaker 6: her deadly darts. Not once she lost each was attendant
- 5:09:51Speaker 6: with a trojan ghost. Young ornithas bestrode a hunter's steed,
- 5:09:56Speaker 6: swept for the chase, and of Apolliant breed him from afar.
- 5:09:59Speaker 6: She spied in arms unknown o'er, his broad back and
- 5:10:03Speaker 6: ox's height, was thrown his helm. A wolf whose gaping
- 5:10:07Speaker 6: jaws were spread a covering for his cheeks and grinned
- 5:10:10Speaker 6: around his head. He clenched within his hand an iron prong,
- 5:10:14Speaker 6: and tired above the rest, conspicuous in their throng him.
- 5:10:18Speaker 6: Soon she singled from the flying train and slew with ease.
- 5:10:22Speaker 6: Then thus insults the slain vain hunter. Didst thou think
- 5:10:27Speaker 6: through woods to chase the savage herd a violent trembling race. Here,
- 5:10:32Speaker 6: seize thy vanes and own my victory. A woman warrior
- 5:10:36Speaker 6: was too strong for thee Yet, if the ghosts demand
- 5:10:40Speaker 6: the conqueror's name, confessing great Camilla, save thy shame, then
- 5:10:45Speaker 6: Beutus and Orsilicus. She slew the bulkiest bodies of the
- 5:10:48Speaker 6: trojan crew, but Beautus's breast, the breast the spear descends
- 5:10:53Speaker 6: above the gorget where his helmet ends, and o'er the shield,
- 5:10:56Speaker 6: which is left side the fence. Or Silicus and she
- 5:10:59Speaker 6: their courses ply. He seems to follow, and she seems
- 5:11:03Speaker 6: to fly. But in a narrow ring she makes the race,
- 5:11:06Speaker 6: and then he flies, and she pursues the chase. Gathering
- 5:11:10Speaker 6: at length on her deluded foe. She swings her ax
- 5:11:14Speaker 6: and rises to the blow full on the helm behind.
- 5:11:17Speaker 6: With such a sway the weapon falls the riven steel
- 5:11:20Speaker 6: gives way. He groans, he roars, he soothes in vain
- 5:11:24Speaker 6: for grace. Brains mingled with his blood besmear his face.
- 5:11:31Speaker 6: Astonished honores just Arius by chance to see his fall.
- 5:11:34Speaker 6: Nor father dares advance, But fixing on the hoard, made
- 5:11:38Speaker 6: his eye. He stares and shakes, and finds it vain
- 5:11:42Speaker 6: to fly. Yet like a true Lagurian, born to cheat,
- 5:11:46Speaker 6: at least while fortune favorites deceit cries out aloud, what
- 5:11:51Speaker 6: courage have you shown, who trust your course's strength and
- 5:11:54Speaker 6: not your own? Forego the vantage of your horse alight,
- 5:11:58Speaker 6: and then, on equal terms, begins in the fight. It
- 5:12:01Speaker 6: shall be seen, weak woman, what you can when foot
- 5:12:04Speaker 6: to foot you combat with a man, he said. She
- 5:12:08Speaker 6: glows with anger and disdain, dismounts with speed to dare
- 5:12:11Speaker 6: him on the plain, and leaves her horse at large
- 5:12:14Speaker 6: among her train, with her drawn sword, defies him to
- 5:12:18Speaker 6: the field, and marching lifts aloft her maiden shield. The youth,
- 5:12:23Speaker 6: who thought his cunning did succeed, reigns round his horse
- 5:12:27Speaker 6: and urges all his speed, adds the remembrance of the spur,
- 5:12:30Speaker 6: and hides the goring rows in his bleeding sides, vain,
- 5:12:35Speaker 6: fool and coward, cries the lofty maid, caught in the
- 5:12:39Speaker 6: train which thou thyself hast laid on others practice thy
- 5:12:43Speaker 6: la gurian arts, thin stratgems, and tricks of little hearts
- 5:12:47Speaker 6: are lost on me. Nor shalt thou safe retire with
- 5:12:50Speaker 6: vaunting lies to thy fallacious sire. At this so fast
- 5:12:55Speaker 6: her flying feet she sped that soon she's strained beyond
- 5:12:59Speaker 6: this horse's head. Then turning short at once she sees
- 5:13:03Speaker 6: the rain and laid the bowster groveling on the plain.
- 5:13:06Speaker 6: Not with more ease, the falcon from above trusses in
- 5:13:10Speaker 6: middle air. The trembling dove then plumes the prey in
- 5:13:13Speaker 6: her strong pounces, bound the feathers, foul with blood, come
- 5:13:18Speaker 6: tumbling to the ground. Now mighty Jove, from his superior height,
- 5:13:23Speaker 6: with his broad eye, surveys the unequal fight. He fires
- 5:13:27Speaker 6: the breast of Targan with disdain, and sends him to
- 5:13:30Speaker 6: redeem the abandoned plane. Betwixt the broken ranks the Tuscan rides,
- 5:13:35Speaker 6: and these encourages and those he chides, recalls each leader
- 5:13:39Speaker 6: by his name from flight, renews their ardor, and restores
- 5:13:43Speaker 6: the fight. What panic fear has seized your souls, Oh
- 5:13:47Speaker 6: shame o brand perpetual of their Drurian name. Cowards incurable.
- 5:13:53Speaker 6: A woman's hand drives, breaks and scatters your ignoble band.
- 5:13:58Speaker 6: Now cast away the soul and quit the shield. What
- 5:14:02Speaker 6: use of weapons which you dare not wield? Nor does
- 5:14:05Speaker 6: you fly your female foes by night? Nor shun the
- 5:14:09Speaker 6: feast when the full bowels invite, When to fat offerings,
- 5:14:13Speaker 6: the glad augur calls, and the shrill hornpipe sounds to bacchanals,
- 5:14:18Speaker 6: These are your studied cares, your lewde delight, swift to
- 5:14:22Speaker 6: the bolge, but slow to manly fight. Thus, having said,
- 5:14:27Speaker 6: he spurs amid the foes, not managing the life he
- 5:14:30Speaker 6: meant to lose. The first he found, he seized with
- 5:14:34Speaker 6: headlong haste in his strong gripe and clasped around the
- 5:14:37Speaker 6: waist twas Venulus, whom from his horse he tore and
- 5:14:41Speaker 6: laid ethward his own in triumph, ball, loud shouts and shoe.
- 5:14:46Speaker 6: The latins turn their eyes and view the unusual sight
- 5:14:49Speaker 6: with vast surprise. The fiery Tarkan flying over the plains.
- 5:14:53Speaker 6: Pressed in his arms, the ponderous prey sustains then, with
- 5:14:57Speaker 6: his shortened spear, explores around his jointed arms to fix
- 5:15:01Speaker 6: a deadly wound. Nor Less the captive struggles for his life.
- 5:15:06Speaker 6: He rides his body to prolong the strive, and, fancying
- 5:15:10Speaker 6: for his naked throat, exerts his utmost vigor and the
- 5:15:13Speaker 6: pointed verts so stoops the yellow eagle from on high
- 5:15:18Speaker 6: and bears a speckled serpent through the sky, fastening his
- 5:15:21Speaker 6: crooked talons on the prey. The prisoner hisses through the
- 5:15:24Speaker 6: liquid way, resists the Royal Hawk, and though represst she
- 5:15:29Speaker 6: fights in volumes and erects her crest. Turned to her foe,
- 5:15:34Speaker 6: she stiffens every scale and shoots her forky tongue and
- 5:15:38Speaker 6: whisks her threatening tail against the victor. All defenses weak,
- 5:15:43Speaker 6: the Imperial Bird still plies her with his beak. He
- 5:15:47Speaker 6: tears her bowels and her breast. He gaws, then claps
- 5:15:51Speaker 6: his pinions and securely saws. Thus through the midst of
- 5:15:55Speaker 6: circling enemies, strong targans snatched and bore away. His pride
- 5:16:00Speaker 6: is the Tyrene troops that shrunk before now pressed the
- 5:16:04Speaker 6: latins and presume the like success. Then errons doomed to death,
- 5:16:10Speaker 6: his arms essayed to murder. Unespied the Volscian maid this way,
- 5:16:15Speaker 6: and that his whining cause. He bends and wears her.
- 5:16:19Speaker 6: She turns her steps, attends. When she retires victorious from
- 5:16:23Speaker 6: the chase, he wheels about with care and shifts his place.
- 5:16:27Speaker 6: When rushing on she seeks her foe's flight, he keeps aloof,
- 5:16:32Speaker 6: but keeps her still in sight. He threats and trembles,
- 5:16:35Speaker 6: trying every way unseen to kill and safely to betray Clorius.
- 5:16:41Speaker 6: The priests of Sybylly from far, glittering and Phrygian arms
- 5:16:45Speaker 6: amidst the war was by the Virgin viewed. The steed
- 5:16:48Speaker 6: he pressed was proud with trappings, and his brawny chest,
- 5:16:51Speaker 6: with scales of gilded brass, was covered over a robe
- 5:16:55Speaker 6: of Tyrian dye. The rider war with deadly wounds. He
- 5:16:59Speaker 6: golded di and foe gnashin his shafts and lision was
- 5:17:03Speaker 6: his bow, a golden helm his front and head surrounds
- 5:17:07Speaker 6: a gilded quiver from his shoulder, sounds gold weaved with
- 5:17:11Speaker 6: linen on his thigh as he wore with flowers of
- 5:17:14Speaker 6: needlework distinguished o'er with golden buckles bound and gathered up
- 5:17:18Speaker 6: before him, the fierce maid beheld with ardent eyes, fond
- 5:17:24Speaker 6: and ambitious of so rich a prize, or that the
- 5:17:27Speaker 6: temple might his trophies hold, or else to shine herself
- 5:17:30Speaker 6: in Trojan gold. Blind in her haste, she chases him
- 5:17:34Speaker 6: alone and seeks his life, regardless of her own. This
- 5:17:40Speaker 6: lucky moment the slight traitor chose. Then, starting from his
- 5:17:44Speaker 6: ambush up he rose and through, but first to have
- 5:17:48Speaker 6: addressed his vows. O patron of Socrates high abodes Phoebus,
- 5:17:54Speaker 6: the ruling power among the gods, whom first we serve
- 5:17:57Speaker 6: whole woods of unctuous pine are felt for, and to
- 5:18:00Speaker 6: thy glory shine by thee. Protected with our naked souls
- 5:18:05Speaker 6: through flames unsinged, we march and treat the kinneled coals.
- 5:18:10Speaker 6: Give me propitious power to wash away the stains of
- 5:18:13Speaker 6: this dishonorable day, nor spoils nor triumph from the fact
- 5:18:17Speaker 6: I claim, but with my future actions trust my fame.
- 5:18:21Speaker 6: Let me by stealth this female plague o'er come, and
- 5:18:25Speaker 6: from the field return in glorious home. Apollo heard, and,
- 5:18:30Speaker 6: granting half his prayer, shoveled in WinCE the rest and
- 5:18:33Speaker 6: tossed in empty air, he gives the death desired. His
- 5:18:37Speaker 6: safe return by sudden tempests to the seas is borne. Now,
- 5:18:42Speaker 6: when the javelin whist along the skies, both armies on
- 5:18:45Speaker 6: Camilla turned their eyes directed by the sound of either host.
- 5:18:50Speaker 6: The unhappy virgin, though concerned the most, was only deaf.
- 5:18:55Speaker 6: So greedy was she bent on golden spoils and on
- 5:18:58Speaker 6: our prey intent, till in her pap the winged weapons
- 5:19:02Speaker 6: stood in fixed and deeply drunk the purple blood. Her
- 5:19:06Speaker 6: sad attendants hastened to sustain their dying lady. Drooping on
- 5:19:10Speaker 6: the plain. Far from their sight, the trembling Errands flies
- 5:19:15Speaker 6: with beating heart and fear. Confused with joys, Nor dares
- 5:19:19Speaker 6: he father to pursue his blow, or even to bear
- 5:19:22Speaker 6: the sight of his expiring foe, as when the wolf
- 5:19:26Speaker 6: has torn a bullock's hide at unawares or ranched a
- 5:19:29Speaker 6: shepherd side. Conscious of his audacious deed, he flies and
- 5:19:33Speaker 6: claps his quivering tail between his thighs, so speeding once,
- 5:19:38Speaker 6: the wretch, no more intense, but spurring forward, hurts among
- 5:19:42Speaker 6: his friends. She wrenched the javelin with her dying hands,
- 5:19:46Speaker 6: but wett within her breast. The weapon stands the wood,
- 5:19:50Speaker 6: she draws, the steely point remains. She staggers in her
- 5:19:54Speaker 6: seat with agonizing pains. A gathering mistow clouds her cheerful eyes,
- 5:19:59Speaker 6: and from her cheeks the rosy color flies. Then turns
- 5:20:03Speaker 6: to her, whom of her female train she trusts up most,
- 5:20:06Speaker 6: and thus she speaks with pain, akah tis past. He
- 5:20:11Speaker 6: swims before my sight inexorable death, and claims his right
- 5:20:17Speaker 6: bear my last words to turnus fly with speed, and
- 5:20:21Speaker 6: bid him timely to my charge. Succeed, repel the trojans
- 5:20:25Speaker 6: and the town relief. Farewell, and in this kiss my
- 5:20:29Speaker 6: parting breath, receive, she said, and sliding sunk upon the plain, dying,
- 5:20:37Speaker 6: her opened hand forsakes the rain short and more short.
- 5:20:41Speaker 6: She pants by slow degrees her mind, the passage from
- 5:20:45Speaker 6: her body frees. She drops her sword. She nods her
- 5:20:49Speaker 6: plumy crest, her drooping head declining on her breast. In
- 5:20:53Speaker 6: the last sigh, her struggling soul expires, and, murmuring with
- 5:20:58Speaker 6: disdain to digging sounds, retires, a shout that struck the
- 5:21:04Speaker 6: golden stars. Ensued despair enraged, the languished fight renewed the
- 5:21:10Speaker 6: Trojan troops and Tuscans in a line advanced to charge,
- 5:21:15Speaker 6: and the mixed Arcadians join. But Cynthia's maid, high, seated
- 5:21:19Speaker 6: from afar, surveys the field and fortune of the war,
- 5:21:23Speaker 6: unmoved awhile till prostrate on the plain, weltering in blood,
- 5:21:27Speaker 6: she seized Camille slain, and round her corpse of friends
- 5:21:31Speaker 6: and foes of fighting train. Then from the bottom of
- 5:21:35Speaker 6: her breast she drew a mournful sigh, and these sad words,
- 5:21:39Speaker 6: and shie too dear, a fine ah much lamented maid
- 5:21:45Speaker 6: for warring with the Trojans. Thou hast paid nor aught
- 5:21:49Speaker 6: availed in this unhappy strive Diana's sacred arms to save
- 5:21:54Speaker 6: thy life. Yet unrevenged, thy goddess will not leave her
- 5:21:59Speaker 6: votary death, nor with vain sorrow grieve Brandeth the wretch,
- 5:22:05Speaker 6: and be his name abhorred. But after ages shall thy
- 5:22:09Speaker 6: praise record the inglorious coward soon shall press the plain.
- 5:22:14Speaker 6: Thus vows thy Queen, and thus the fates ordain high
- 5:22:20Speaker 6: o'er the field. There stood a hilly mount sacred the
- 5:22:23Speaker 6: place and spread with oaks, around where in a marble
- 5:22:27Speaker 6: tomb their sannes lay a king that once in Latian
- 5:22:30Speaker 6: bore the sway. The beautious opus thither bent her flight
- 5:22:35Speaker 6: to mark the traitor errands from the height him in
- 5:22:38Speaker 6: refulgent arms. She soon espied, sworn with success, and loudly
- 5:22:42Speaker 6: doth she cried, thy backward steps, vain boaster art too late,
- 5:22:49Speaker 6: Turn like a man at length, and meet thy fate.
- 5:22:52Speaker 6: Charg'd with my message to Camilla, Go and say I
- 5:22:56Speaker 6: send thee to the shades below, and honor undeserved. From
- 5:23:00Speaker 6: Cynthia's bow, she said, And from her quiver chose with
- 5:23:04Speaker 6: speed the winged shaft predestined for the deed. Then to
- 5:23:08Speaker 6: the stubborn ewe. Her strength applied till the far distant
- 5:23:12Speaker 6: horns approached on either side. The bowstring touched her breast,
- 5:23:16Speaker 6: so strong she drew, whizzing in air. The fatal arrow
- 5:23:20Speaker 6: flew at once, the twanging bow and sounding dart. The
- 5:23:24Speaker 6: draitor heard and felt the point within his heart, him
- 5:23:28Speaker 6: beating with his heels in pangs of death. His flying
- 5:23:31Speaker 6: friends to foreign fields bequeath the conquering damsel with expanded wings,
- 5:23:37Speaker 6: the welcome message to her mistress springs. Their leader lost.
- 5:23:42Speaker 6: Novolskians quit the field and unsustained the chiefs of turners
- 5:23:46Speaker 6: yield the frighted soldiers when their captains fly more on
- 5:23:50Speaker 6: their speed than on their strength. Rely confused in flight,
- 5:23:55Speaker 6: they bare each other down and spur their horses headlong
- 5:23:58Speaker 6: to the town, driven by their foes and to their fears. Resigned,
- 5:24:03Speaker 6: not once they turn, but take their wounds behind. These
- 5:24:07Speaker 6: drop the shield, and those the lands forego, or on
- 5:24:11Speaker 6: their shoulders bare the slackened bow. The hoofs of horses
- 5:24:15Speaker 6: with a rattling sound, beat short and thick, and shake
- 5:24:19Speaker 6: the rotten ground. Black clouds of dust come rolling in
- 5:24:22Speaker 6: the sky and o'er the darkened walls, and rampires fly.
- 5:24:27Speaker 6: The trembling matrons from their lofty stands rend heaven with
- 5:24:31Speaker 6: female shrieks and wring their hands, all pressing on pursuers
- 5:24:36Speaker 6: and pursued are crushed in crowds, a mingled multitude. Some
- 5:24:42Speaker 6: happy few escape the throng too late, rush on for entrance,
- 5:24:46Speaker 6: till they choke the gate even in sight of home.
- 5:24:50Speaker 6: The wretched sire looks on and seizes helpless sun expire. Then,
- 5:24:55Speaker 6: in a fright, the folding gates they close, but leave
- 5:24:59Speaker 6: their friends a excluded with their foes. The vanquished cry.
- 5:25:03Speaker 6: The victors loudly shout tis terror all within, and slaughter
- 5:25:08Speaker 6: all without. Blind in their fear, they bounce against the
- 5:25:12Speaker 6: wall or to the moats, pursued precipitate their fall. The
- 5:25:18Speaker 6: Latian virgins, valiant with despair, armed on the towers the
- 5:25:22Speaker 6: common danger, share so much of zeal, their country's cause
- 5:25:26Speaker 6: inspired so much Camilla's great example. Fired poles sharpened in
- 5:25:32Speaker 6: the flames, from high they throw, with imitated darts to
- 5:25:36Speaker 6: gold of foe their lives for good, like freedom, they
- 5:25:39Speaker 6: bequeath and crowd each other to be first in death.
- 5:25:45Speaker 6: Meantime to turnus ambushed in the shade with heavy tidings,
- 5:25:49Speaker 6: came the unhappy maid. The Volscians, overthrown Camilla killed the
- 5:25:53Speaker 6: foes entirely. Masses of the field, like a resistless flood,
- 5:25:58Speaker 6: come rolling on. The cry goes off the plain and
- 5:26:01Speaker 6: thickens to the town inflamed with rage. For so the
- 5:26:06Speaker 6: furies fire, the dawnings breast, and so the fates require.
- 5:26:11Speaker 6: He leaves the hilly pass, the woods in vain possessed,
- 5:26:14Speaker 6: and downward issues on the plain. Scarce was he gone,
- 5:26:18Speaker 6: when to the straits, now freed from secret foes. The
- 5:26:21Speaker 6: Trojan troops succeed through the black forest, and the ferny
- 5:26:25Speaker 6: break unknowingly secure their way. They take from the rough
- 5:26:29Speaker 6: mountains to the plain descent, and there in order drawn
- 5:26:33Speaker 6: their line extent. Both armies, now in open fields, are seen,
- 5:26:39Speaker 6: nor far the distance of the space between both to
- 5:26:42Speaker 6: the city. Bent Aenaeus sees through smoking fields his hastening enemies,
- 5:26:48Speaker 6: and Turnus views the Trojans in array, and hears the
- 5:26:51Speaker 6: approaching horses proudly neigh Soon had their hosts and bloody
- 5:26:56Speaker 6: battle joined. But westward to the sea, the sun declined.
- 5:27:02Speaker 6: Entrenched before the town, both armies lie, while night with
- 5:27:07Speaker 6: sable wings involves the sky.
- 5:27:12Speaker 2: End of Book eleven, Book twelve, The Fortunes of War,
- 5:27:17Speaker 2: Part one. When Turnus saw the Latins leave the field,
- 5:27:21Speaker 2: their armies broken and their courage quelled, himself become a
- 5:27:25Speaker 2: mark of public spite, his honor question for the promised fight.
- 5:27:29Speaker 2: The more he was with vulgar hate oppressed, the more
- 5:27:32Speaker 2: his fury boiled within his breast. He roused his vigor
- 5:27:36Speaker 2: for the last debate, and raised his haughty soul to
- 5:27:39Speaker 2: meet his fate. As when the Swains the Libyan lion chase.
- 5:27:44Speaker 2: He makes a sour retreat, nor mends his pace. But
- 5:27:48Speaker 2: if the pointed javelin pierce his side, the lordly beast
- 5:27:51Speaker 2: returns with double pride. He wrenches out the steel, He
- 5:27:55Speaker 2: roars for pain his sides. He lashes and erects his mane.
- 5:27:59Speaker 2: So turnus fares his eyeballs flash with fire, throw his
- 5:28:05Speaker 2: wide nostrils. Clouds of smoke expire, trembling with rage around
- 5:28:10Speaker 2: the court. He ran at length approached the king, and
- 5:28:13Speaker 2: thus began no more excuses or delays. I stand in arms,
- 5:28:17Speaker 2: prepared to combat hand to hand this base deserter of
- 5:28:21Speaker 2: his native land. The Trojan, by his word, is bound
- 5:28:24Speaker 2: to take the same conditions which himself did make renew
- 5:28:28Speaker 2: the truce. The solemn rites prepare, and to my single
- 5:28:33Speaker 2: virtue trust the war. The Latians, unconcerned, shall see the fight.
- 5:28:37Speaker 2: This arm, unaided, shall assert your right. Then, if my
- 5:28:41Speaker 2: prostrate body press the plane to him, the crown and
- 5:28:45Speaker 2: futious bride remain to whom the king sedately thus replied,
- 5:28:49Speaker 2: brave youth, the more your valor has been tried, the
- 5:28:53Speaker 2: more becomes at us with due respect to weigh the
- 5:28:56Speaker 2: chance of war which you neglect. You want not wealth
- 5:28:59Speaker 2: or a successive throne, or cities which your arms have
- 5:29:03Speaker 2: made your own. My towns and treasures are at your command,
- 5:29:07Speaker 2: and stored with blooming beauties. Is my land laurentum more
- 5:29:10Speaker 2: than one Lavinia sees, unmarried, fair of noble families. Now
- 5:29:16Speaker 2: let me speak and you with patience here things which
- 5:29:19Speaker 2: perhaps make great a lover's ear, but sound advice proceeding
- 5:29:23Speaker 2: from a heart sincerely yours and free from fraudful art.
- 5:29:28Speaker 2: The gods by signs have manifestly shown no prince Italian
- 5:29:33Speaker 2: born should heir my throne oft to have our augurs
- 5:29:36Speaker 2: in predictions, skilled and oft our priests for and son
- 5:29:39Speaker 2: revealed yet one by worth that cannot be withstood. Bribed
- 5:29:44Speaker 2: by my kindness to my kindred blood, urged by my wife,
- 5:29:48Speaker 2: who would not be denied, I promised my Lavinia for
- 5:29:51Speaker 2: your bride, her from her plighted lord. By force I
- 5:29:55Speaker 2: took all ties of treaties and of honor broke on
- 5:29:58Speaker 2: your account. I wage impious war with what success t
- 5:30:02Speaker 2: is needless to declare I and my subjects feel, and
- 5:30:07Speaker 2: you have had your share twice vanquished. While in bloody
- 5:30:10Speaker 2: fields we strive scarce in our walls, we keep our
- 5:30:13Speaker 2: hopes alive. The rolling flood runs warm with human gore.
- 5:30:19Speaker 2: The bones of Latians blanch the neighboring shore. Why put
- 5:30:23Speaker 2: I not an end to this debate, still unresolved, and
- 5:30:26Speaker 2: still a slave to fate. If turnus death a lasting
- 5:30:29Speaker 2: peace can give, why should I not procure it whilst
- 5:30:32Speaker 2: you live? Should I to doubtful arms your youth betray?
- 5:30:36Speaker 2: What would my kinsmen, the Rutulians say? And should you
- 5:30:39Speaker 2: fall in flight which heaven defend, how curse the cause
- 5:30:43Speaker 2: which hastened to his end? The daughter's lover and the
- 5:30:45Speaker 2: father's friend weigh in your mind the various chants of war.
- 5:30:50Speaker 2: Pity your parent's age, and ease his care. Such balmy
- 5:30:54Speaker 2: words he poured, but all in vain. The proffered medicine,
- 5:30:57Speaker 2: but provoked the pain. The wrathful youth, disdaining the relief
- 5:31:01Speaker 2: with intermitting sobs, thus vents his grief. The care, oh,
- 5:31:05Speaker 2: best of fathers, which you take from my concerns at
- 5:31:07Speaker 2: my desire forsake. Permit me not to languish out my days,
- 5:31:11Speaker 2: but make the best exchange of life for praise, this arm,
- 5:31:15Speaker 2: this lance, can well dispute the prize, and the blood
- 5:31:19Speaker 2: follows where the weapon flies. His goddess Mother is not
- 5:31:22Speaker 2: near to shroud the flying coward with an empty cloud.
- 5:31:26Speaker 2: But now the queen, who fear'd for turnus life and
- 5:31:29Speaker 2: loathe the hard conditions of the strife, held him by force,
- 5:31:33Speaker 2: and dying in his death in these sad accents, gave
- 5:31:37Speaker 2: her sorrow breath. O Turnus, I adjure thee by these tears,
- 5:31:42Speaker 2: and whatever price amotas honor bears within thy breast. Since
- 5:31:47Speaker 2: thou art all my hope, my sickly minds repose my
- 5:31:51Speaker 2: sinking age's prop since on the safety of thy life
- 5:31:54Speaker 2: alone depends Latinus and the Latian throne. Refuse me, not
- 5:31:59Speaker 2: this one. This only prayer to wave the combat and
- 5:32:02Speaker 2: pursue the war. Whatever chance attends this fatal strife, think
- 5:32:08Speaker 2: it includes in thine Amata's life. I cannot live a slave,
- 5:32:12Speaker 2: or see my throne usurped by strangers or a trojan's son.
- 5:32:16Speaker 2: At this a flood of tears, Lavinius shed a crimson blush,
- 5:32:20Speaker 2: her beauteous face overspread, varying her cheeks by turns with
- 5:32:24Speaker 2: white and red, the driving colors never out of stay,
- 5:32:28Speaker 2: run here and there, and flush and fade away. Delightful change.
- 5:32:32Speaker 2: Thus Indian ivory shows, which the bordering pain of purple
- 5:32:37Speaker 2: glows or lilies damasked by the neighboring rose. The lover
- 5:32:41Speaker 2: gazed and burning with desire. The more he looked, the
- 5:32:44Speaker 2: more he fed the fire. Revenge and jealous rage and
- 5:32:48Speaker 2: secret spite rolled in his breast and rouse him to
- 5:32:52Speaker 2: the fight. Then, fixing on the Queen, his ardent eyes
- 5:32:56Speaker 2: firm to his first intent, he thus replies, Oh, mother,
- 5:33:00Speaker 2: do not buy your tears, prepare such boding omens, and
- 5:33:03Speaker 2: prejudge the war resolved on fight, I am no longer
- 5:33:07Speaker 2: free to shun my death. If Heaven my death decree. Then,
- 5:33:11Speaker 2: turning to the herald, thus pursues, go greet the Trojan
- 5:33:16Speaker 2: with ungrateful news. Denounce from me that when tomorrow's light
- 5:33:19Speaker 2: shall guild the heavens, he need not her to fight.
- 5:33:23Speaker 2: The Trojan and Rutulian troops no more shall die with
- 5:33:26Speaker 2: mutual blood. The Latian shore are single swords. The quarrel
- 5:33:31Speaker 2: shall decide, and to the victor be the beauteous bride,
- 5:33:34Speaker 2: he said, and striding on with speedy pace, he sought
- 5:33:38Speaker 2: his coursers of the Thracian race. At his approach, they
- 5:33:42Speaker 2: tossed their heads on high and proudly, naying, promise Victori,
- 5:33:47Speaker 2: the sires of these Erythia sent from far to grace piluminous.
- 5:33:53Speaker 2: When he went to war. The drifts of Thracian snows
- 5:33:56Speaker 2: were scarce, so white, nor northern winds in fitness matched
- 5:34:00Speaker 2: their flight. Officious grooms stand ready by his side, and
- 5:34:05Speaker 2: some with combs their flowing manes divide, and others stroked
- 5:34:09Speaker 2: their chests and gently soothed their pride. He sheathed his
- 5:34:14Speaker 2: limbs and arms a tempered mass of golden metal, those
- 5:34:18Speaker 2: and mountain brass. Then to his head his glittering helm,
- 5:34:22Speaker 2: he tied and girt his faithful Fausion to his side
- 5:34:27Speaker 2: in his Atanian forge, the god of fire. That fausion
- 5:34:31Speaker 2: labored to the hero's sire, immortal keenness on the blade,
- 5:34:35Speaker 2: bestowed and plunged it, hissing in the Stygian flood. Propped
- 5:34:39Speaker 2: on a pillar which the ceiling bore was placed the
- 5:34:43Speaker 2: lance Aruncan Actor War, which with such force he brandished
- 5:34:49Speaker 2: in his hand. The tough ash trembled like an o'ceer
- 5:34:52Speaker 2: wand then cried, o ponderous spoil of actors slain, and
- 5:34:57Speaker 2: never yet by turnus tossed in vain, fail not this
- 5:35:00Speaker 2: day thy wonted force. But go sent by this hand
- 5:35:04Speaker 2: to fierce the trojan. Foe. Give me to tear his
- 5:35:08Speaker 2: corselet from his breast, and from that eunuch head, to
- 5:35:11Speaker 2: rend the crest dragged in the dust, his frizzled hair
- 5:35:15Speaker 2: to soil, hot from the vexing iron, and smeared with
- 5:35:19Speaker 2: fragrant oil. Thus, while he raves from his wide nostrils,
- 5:35:25Speaker 2: flies a fiery steam and sparkles from his eyes, so
- 5:35:29Speaker 2: fares the bowl his loved female sight. Proudly, he bellows
- 5:35:33Speaker 2: and preludes the fight. He tries his goring horns against
- 5:35:37Speaker 2: the tree and meditates his absent enemy. He pushes at
- 5:35:42Speaker 2: the winds, He digs the strand with his black hoofs,
- 5:35:46Speaker 2: and spurns the yellow sand. Nor less the Trojan, in
- 5:35:49Speaker 2: his lemnion arms to future fight. His manly courage warms,
- 5:35:54Speaker 2: He wets his fury, and with joy, prepares to terminate
- 5:35:58Speaker 2: at once the lingering war. To cheer his chiefs and
- 5:36:02Speaker 2: tender son relates what Heaven had promised, and expounds the
- 5:36:05Speaker 2: fates than to the Latian king, he sends to cease
- 5:36:09Speaker 2: the rage of arms and ratify the peace. The morn,
- 5:36:12Speaker 2: ensuing from the mountain's height, had scarcely spread the skies
- 5:36:17Speaker 2: with rosy light. The ethereal cursers, bounding from the sea,
- 5:36:22Speaker 2: from out their flaming nostrils, breathe the day, when now
- 5:36:25Speaker 2: the Trojan and Rutulian guard in friendly labor, joined the
- 5:36:29Speaker 2: lists prepared beneath the walls, they measure out the space.
- 5:36:33Speaker 2: Then sacred altars rear on sods of grass, where with
- 5:36:38Speaker 2: religious their common gods they place in purest white. The
- 5:36:43Speaker 2: priests their heads, attire and living waters, bear and holy fire,
- 5:36:48Speaker 2: and o'er their linen hoods and shaded hair, long twisted
- 5:36:52Speaker 2: wreaths of sacred varian where in order, issuing from the town,
- 5:36:57Speaker 2: appears the Latin legion, armed with pointed spears, and from
- 5:37:01Speaker 2: the fields, advancing on a line, the Trojan and the
- 5:37:05Speaker 2: Tuscan forces join. Their various arms, afford a pleasing sight
- 5:37:10Speaker 2: a peaceful tray. They seem in peace, prepared for fight.
- 5:37:14Speaker 2: Betwixt the ranks, the proud commander's ride, glittering with gold
- 5:37:19Speaker 2: and vests and purple dyed. Here Mnestheus, author of the
- 5:37:23Speaker 2: Memmian line, and there Messapus, born of seed divine. The
- 5:37:28Speaker 2: sign is given, and round the listed space, each man
- 5:37:31Speaker 2: in order fills his proper place. Reclining on their ample shields,
- 5:37:36Speaker 2: they stand and fix their pointed lances in the sand.
- 5:37:40Speaker 2: Now studious of the site, a numerous throng of either sex,
- 5:37:43Speaker 2: fromiscuous old and young, swarm the town by those who
- 5:37:47Speaker 2: rest behind. The gates, and walls and houses topped are lined. Meantime,
- 5:37:53Speaker 2: the Queen of Heaven beheld the sight with eyes unpleased
- 5:37:57Speaker 2: from Mount Albano's height, since called Albani by succeeding fame,
- 5:38:01Speaker 2: but then an empty hill without a name. She thence
- 5:38:05Speaker 2: surveyed the field the Trojan powers, the Latian squadrons and
- 5:38:09Speaker 2: Lorentine towers. Then thus the Goddess of the skies bespoke
- 5:38:14Speaker 2: with sighs and tears. The Goddess of the Lake can
- 5:38:16Speaker 2: turn as sister, once a lovely maid ere to the
- 5:38:19Speaker 2: lust of lawless Jove, betrayed, compress'd by force, but by
- 5:38:24Speaker 2: the grateful God now made Denighas of the neighboring flood
- 5:38:28Speaker 2: O nymph, the pride of living lakes, said she, O,
- 5:38:31Speaker 2: most renowned and most beloved by me. Long hast thou known,
- 5:38:35Speaker 2: nor need I to record the wanton sallies of my
- 5:38:38Speaker 2: wandering lord, of every Latian fair, whom Jove misled to
- 5:38:43Speaker 2: mount by stealth my violated bed to thee alone. I
- 5:38:47Speaker 2: grudged not his embrace, but gave a part of Heaven
- 5:38:50Speaker 2: in an unenvied place. Now learn from me thy near
- 5:38:54Speaker 2: approaching grief. Nor think my wishes want to thy relief,
- 5:38:58Speaker 2: while fortune favor no Heaven's king, denied to lend my
- 5:39:02Speaker 2: succor to the Latian side. I save thy brother and
- 5:39:06Speaker 2: the sinking state. But now he struggles with unequal fate
- 5:39:10Speaker 2: and goes with God's averse. O'ermatched in might to meet
- 5:39:15Speaker 2: inevitable death in fight. Nor must I break the truce,
- 5:39:19Speaker 2: nor can sustain the sight thou. If thou darest thy
- 5:39:23Speaker 2: present aid, supply it well becomes a sister's care to
- 5:39:26Speaker 2: try at this. The lovely nymph, with grief oppressed thrice
- 5:39:33Speaker 2: tore her hair and beat her comely breast to whom Saturnia.
- 5:39:37Speaker 2: Thus thy tears are late. Haste snatch him if he
- 5:39:41Speaker 2: can be snatched from fate. New tumults kindle violate the truce.
- 5:39:46Speaker 2: Who knows what changeful fortune may produce? Tis not a
- 5:39:50Speaker 2: crime to attempt what I decree, or if it were,
- 5:39:53Speaker 2: discharge the crime on me, she said, and, sailing on
- 5:39:57Speaker 2: the winged wind, left the saddeness nymphs suspended in her mind,
- 5:40:03Speaker 2: and now pomp the peaceful kings appear, foresteeds. The chariot
- 5:40:08Speaker 2: of the Latinous bears twelve golden beams around his temple
- 5:40:12Speaker 2: play to mark his lineage from the God of day.
- 5:40:16Speaker 2: Two snowy coursers turneth chariot yoke, and in his hand
- 5:40:20Speaker 2: two massy spears he shook. Then issued from the camp
- 5:40:24Speaker 2: in arms divine aeneas author of the Roman line, and
- 5:40:29Speaker 2: by his side Ascanius took his place, the second hope
- 5:40:33Speaker 2: of Rome's immortal race. Adorned in white, a reverend priest
- 5:40:38Speaker 2: appears and offerings to the flaming altars. Bears a porket
- 5:40:43Speaker 2: and a lamb that never suffered. Shears. Then to the
- 5:40:46Speaker 2: rising sun, he turns his eyes and strews the beast's
- 5:40:50Speaker 2: designed for sacrifice, the salt and meal. With like officious care.
- 5:40:55Speaker 2: He marks their foreheads, and he clips their hair betwixt
- 5:40:59Speaker 2: their horns. Purple wine he sheds with the same generous
- 5:41:03Speaker 2: juice the flame he feeds. Aeneas then unsheathed his shining sword,
- 5:41:10Speaker 2: and thus, with pious prayers the gods adored all seeing sun,
- 5:41:14Speaker 2: and Thou Austonian soil, for which I have sustained so
- 5:41:18Speaker 2: long a toil, Thou, King of Heaven, and Thou the
- 5:41:22Speaker 2: Queen of Air. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer, Thou,
- 5:41:27Speaker 2: God of war, whose unresisted sway the labors and events
- 5:41:32Speaker 2: of arms. Obey Ye living fountains and ye running floods.
- 5:41:36Speaker 2: All powers of ocean, all ethereal gods hear and bear record.
- 5:41:42Speaker 2: If I fall in field or recreant in the fight
- 5:41:46Speaker 2: to turnus yield, my trojans shall increase Evander's town, Ascanius
- 5:41:52Speaker 2: shall renounce the Estonian crown, all claims, all questions of
- 5:41:57Speaker 2: debate shall cease, nor he nor they with force infringe
- 5:42:01Speaker 2: the peace. But if my juster arms prevail and fight,
- 5:42:05Speaker 2: as sure they shall. For if I divine aright, my
- 5:42:10Speaker 2: trojans shall not o'er the Italian's reign. Both equal, both
- 5:42:14Speaker 2: unconquer'd shall remain joined in their laws, their lands, and
- 5:42:18Speaker 2: their abodes. I ask but altars for my weary gods.
- 5:42:22Speaker 2: The care of those religious rites be mine. The crown
- 5:42:26Speaker 2: the king Latinus, I resign his be the sovereign's sway.
- 5:42:30Speaker 2: Nor will I share his power and peace or his
- 5:42:33Speaker 2: command in war For me, my friends, another town shall
- 5:42:36Speaker 2: frame and bless the rising towers with fair Lavinius name.
- 5:42:42Speaker 2: Thus he then, with erected eyes and hands, the Latian king,
- 5:42:47Speaker 2: before his altar, stands by the same heaven, said he
- 5:42:50Speaker 2: and Earth and man, and all the powers that all
- 5:42:54Speaker 2: three contain, by Hell below, and by that upper God
- 5:42:58Speaker 2: whose thunder signs the peace, whose seals it with his nod.
- 5:43:01Speaker 2: So let latonas double offspring hear and double fronted Janus.
- 5:43:06Speaker 2: What I swear, I touch the sacred altars, touch the flames,
- 5:43:10Speaker 2: and all those powers attest, and all their names. Whatever
- 5:43:14Speaker 2: chance befall on either side, no term of time this
- 5:43:17Speaker 2: union shall divide, no force, no fortune shall my vows
- 5:43:21Speaker 2: unbind or shake the steadfast tenor of my mind. Not
- 5:43:26Speaker 2: though the circling seas should break their bound, overflow the shores,
- 5:43:31Speaker 2: or sap the solid ground, Not though the lamps of
- 5:43:34Speaker 2: heaven their spheres forsake, hurled down and hissing in the
- 5:43:38Speaker 2: nether lake, even as this royal scepter, for he bore
- 5:43:42Speaker 2: a sceptor of his hand, shall never more shoot out
- 5:43:46Speaker 2: in branches or renew the birth an orphan, now cut
- 5:43:50Speaker 2: from the mother earth by the keen Ax, dishonoured of
- 5:43:54Speaker 2: its hair, and cased in brass for Latian kings to bear.
- 5:43:59Speaker 2: When thus in public view, the peace was tied, with
- 5:44:02Speaker 2: solemn vows and sworn on either side, all dues performed
- 5:44:06Speaker 2: which holy rites require. The victim beasts are slain before
- 5:44:10Speaker 2: the fire. The trembling entrails from their bodies, torn and
- 5:44:15Speaker 2: to the fattened flames and chargers born already, the Rutulians
- 5:44:20Speaker 2: deem their man o'ermatched in arms. Before the fight begin, First,
- 5:44:24Speaker 2: rising fears are whispered through the crowd. Then, gathering sound,
- 5:44:28Speaker 2: they murmur more aloud. Now side to side, they measure
- 5:44:32Speaker 2: with their eyes the champion's bulk, their sinews, and their sighs.
- 5:44:36Speaker 2: The nearer their approach, the more is known the apparent
- 5:44:39Speaker 2: disadvantage of their own Turnus himself appears in public sight,
- 5:44:44Speaker 2: conscious of his fate, desponding of the fight slowly he moves,
- 5:44:48Speaker 2: and at his altar stands with eyes dejected and with
- 5:44:52Speaker 2: trembling hands. And while he mutters undistinguished prayers, a livid
- 5:44:58Speaker 2: deadness in his cheeks peers with anxious pleasure. When Juturna
- 5:45:04Speaker 2: viewed the increasing fright of the mad multitude, when their
- 5:45:09Speaker 2: short sighs and thickening sobs, she heard and found their
- 5:45:13Speaker 2: ready minds for change. Prepared. Dissembling her immortal form, she
- 5:45:18Speaker 2: took Camertus mien, his habit and his look. A chief
- 5:45:23Speaker 2: of ancient blood in arms, well known was his great sire,
- 5:45:26Speaker 2: and he his greater son. His shape assumed amid the ranks,
- 5:45:30Speaker 2: she ran, and, humoring their first motions, thus began for shame. Rtulians,
- 5:45:37Speaker 2: Can you bear the sight of one exposed for all
- 5:45:39Speaker 2: in single fight? Can we, before the face of Heaven
- 5:45:42Speaker 2: confess our courage, colder, our numbers less? View all the
- 5:45:47Speaker 2: Trojan hosts, the Arcadian band, and Tuscan army, count them
- 5:45:51Speaker 2: as they stand undaunted to the battle. If we go scarce,
- 5:45:55Speaker 2: every second man will share a foe. Turnust is true
- 5:45:59Speaker 2: in this un equal strife, shall lose with honor his
- 5:46:02Speaker 2: devoted life, or change it rather for immortal fame, succeeding
- 5:46:06Speaker 2: to the gods from whence he came. But you, a
- 5:46:09Speaker 2: servile and inglorious band for foreign lords, shall sow your
- 5:46:13Speaker 2: native land those fruitful fields your fighting fathers gained, which
- 5:46:18Speaker 2: have so long their lazy sons sustained. With words like these,
- 5:46:24Speaker 2: she carried her design. And a rising murmur runs across
- 5:46:27Speaker 2: the line. Then even the city troops and latians, tired
- 5:46:31Speaker 2: with tedious war, seen with new souls inspired their champions
- 5:46:35Speaker 2: fate with pity, they lament, and of the league so
- 5:46:39Speaker 2: lately sworn repent. Nor fails the goddess to foment the
- 5:46:45Speaker 2: rage with lying wonders and a false presage, but adds
- 5:46:48Speaker 2: a sign which, present to their eyes, inspires new courage
- 5:46:52Speaker 2: and a glad surprise. For sudden in the fiery tracts above,
- 5:46:57Speaker 2: appears in pomp the Imperial bird of Ove, a plump
- 5:47:01Speaker 2: of fowl he spies that swims the lakes and o'er
- 5:47:05Speaker 2: their head. His sounding pinions shakes. Then, stooping on the
- 5:47:09Speaker 2: fairest of the train in his strong talons, trusts a
- 5:47:14Speaker 2: silver swan. The Italians wonder at the unusual sight. But
- 5:47:19Speaker 2: while he lags and labors in his flight. Behold the
- 5:47:22Speaker 2: dastard fowl return anew and with united force, the foe
- 5:47:26Speaker 2: pursue clamorous around the royal hawk. They fly, and thickening
- 5:47:31Speaker 2: in a cloud o'ershade the sky. They cuff, they scratch,
- 5:47:35Speaker 2: they cross his airy course. Nor can the encumbered burn
- 5:47:40Speaker 2: sustain their force. But vexed, not vanquished, drops the ponderous prey,
- 5:47:47Speaker 2: and lightened of his burthened wings his way. The Ausonian bands,
- 5:47:51Speaker 2: with shouts salute the sight, eager of action, and demand
- 5:47:56Speaker 2: to fight. Then King to luminous burst in Augur's arts
- 5:48:00Speaker 2: cries out, and thus his boasted skill imparts at length.
- 5:48:04Speaker 2: T is granted what I long desired. This, this is
- 5:48:07Speaker 2: what my frequent vows required. Ye gods, I take your
- 5:48:10Speaker 2: omen and obey, advance my friends, and charge I lead
- 5:48:13Speaker 2: the way. These are the foreign foes whose impious band,
- 5:48:19Speaker 2: like that rapacious bird, infests our land. But soon, like him,
- 5:48:23Speaker 2: they shall be forced to the sea by strength united
- 5:48:26Speaker 2: and forego the prey, your timely succor to your country.
- 5:48:30Speaker 2: Bring haste to the rescue and redeem your king, he said, and,
- 5:48:36Speaker 2: pressing onward through the crew, poised his lifted arm and
- 5:48:40Speaker 2: his lance. He threw the winged weapon, whistling in the wind,
- 5:48:44Speaker 2: came driving on, nor missed the mark design. At once
- 5:48:48Speaker 2: the cornel rattled in the skies. At once tumultuous shouts
- 5:48:52Speaker 2: and clamors rise nine brothers in a goodly band. There
- 5:48:56Speaker 2: stood born of Arcadian mixed with Tuscan blood Gylippus's sons.
- 5:49:03Speaker 2: The fatal javelin through aimed at the midmost of the
- 5:49:07Speaker 2: friendly crew, a passage through the jointed arms. It found
- 5:49:11Speaker 2: just where the belt was to the body bound, and
- 5:49:14Speaker 2: struck the gentle youth extended on the ground, then fired
- 5:49:18Speaker 2: with pious rage. The generous train run madly forward to
- 5:49:23Speaker 2: revenge the slain, and some with eager haste their javelin's throw,
- 5:49:28Speaker 2: and some with sword in hand, assault the foe. The
- 5:49:31Speaker 2: wish to insult. The Latin troops embrace and meet their
- 5:49:36Speaker 2: ardor in the middle space. The Trojans, Tuscans and Arcadian line,
- 5:49:40Speaker 2: with equal courage, obviate their design. Peace leaves the violated
- 5:49:45Speaker 2: fields and hate. Both armies urges to their mutual fate
- 5:49:50Speaker 2: with impious haste. Their altars are o'erturned, the sacrifice half
- 5:49:56Speaker 2: broiled and half unburned. Thick storms of steel from either
- 5:50:00Speaker 2: army fly, and clouds of clashing darts obscure the sky
- 5:50:05Speaker 2: brands from the fire are missive weapons made with chargers, bowls,
- 5:50:10Speaker 2: and all the priestly trade. Latinus, frightened, hastens from the fray,
- 5:50:15Speaker 2: and bears his unregarded gods away. These on horses, vault
- 5:50:20Speaker 2: those yoked the car the rest with swords on high
- 5:50:24Speaker 2: run headlong to the war. Messapus, eager to confound the peace,
- 5:50:29Speaker 2: spurred his hot courser through the fighting priests at King
- 5:50:33Speaker 2: Alestes by his purple known a Tuscan prince, and by
- 5:50:36Speaker 2: his regal crown, and with a shock encountering bore him
- 5:50:41Speaker 2: down backwards. He fell, and as his fate designed, the
- 5:50:44Speaker 2: ruins of an altar were behind there, Pitching on his
- 5:50:47Speaker 2: shoulders and his head amid the scattering fires, he lay
- 5:50:51Speaker 2: supinely spread the beanie spear descending from above, his curis
- 5:50:56Speaker 2: pierced and through his body drove. Then with a scornful smile,
- 5:51:01Speaker 2: the victor cries, the gods have found a fitter sacrifice.
- 5:51:05Speaker 2: Greedy of the spoils, the Italians stripped the dead of
- 5:51:09Speaker 2: his rich armor, and uncrown his head. Priest Coranus armed
- 5:51:14Speaker 2: his better hand from his own altar with a blazing brand,
- 5:51:17Speaker 2: and as Ebusus, with a thundering pace, advanced to battle,
- 5:51:22Speaker 2: dashed it on his face. His bristly beard shines out
- 5:51:26Speaker 2: with sudden fires the crackling crop a noisome scent expires.
- 5:51:32Speaker 2: Following the blow. He seized his curling crown with his
- 5:51:35Speaker 2: left hand, his other cast him down the prostrate body
- 5:51:39Speaker 2: with his knees. He pressed and plunged his holy poniard
- 5:51:43Speaker 2: in his breast, while Padelirius, with his sword, pursued the
- 5:51:49Speaker 2: shepherd Alsus through the flying crowd. Swiftly, he turns and
- 5:51:53Speaker 2: aims a deadly blow full on the front of his
- 5:51:56Speaker 2: unwary foe. The broad axe enters with a crashing sound
- 5:52:00Speaker 2: and cleaves the chin with one continued wound, warm blood
- 5:52:04Speaker 2: and mingled brains. Besmear his arms around an iron sleep.
- 5:52:09Speaker 2: His stupid eyes oppressed and sealed their heavy lids in
- 5:52:13Speaker 2: endless rest. But good Aeneas rushed amidst the bands. There
- 5:52:18Speaker 2: was his head, and naked were his hands, in sign
- 5:52:21Speaker 2: of truce. Then thus he cried aloud, what sudden rage?
- 5:52:25Speaker 2: What new desire? Of blood inflames your altered minds, O, Trojans,
- 5:52:29Speaker 2: cease from impious arms, nor violate the peace by human
- 5:52:33Speaker 2: sanctions and by laws divine. The terms are all agreed
- 5:52:36Speaker 2: the war's mind. Dismiss your fears, and let the fight ensue.
- 5:52:40Speaker 2: This hand alone shall right the gods, and you are
- 5:52:43Speaker 2: injured altars and their broken vow to this avenging sword.
- 5:52:47Speaker 2: The faithless turn Us O. Thus, while he spoke, unmindful
- 5:52:51Speaker 2: of defense, a winged arrow struck the pious prince. But
- 5:52:55Speaker 2: whether from some human hand it came or hostile God,
- 5:52:59Speaker 2: is left unknown by fame. No human hand or hostile
- 5:53:02Speaker 2: god was found to boast the triumph of so base
- 5:53:05Speaker 2: a wound. When Turnus saw the trojan quit the plain,
- 5:53:10Speaker 2: his chiefs dismayed his troops a fainting train. The unhoped event,
- 5:53:15Speaker 2: his heightened soul inspires at once his arms and coursers
- 5:53:20Speaker 2: he requires. Then, with a leap, his lofty chariot gains,
- 5:53:24Speaker 2: and with a ready hand assumes the reins. He drives impetuous,
- 5:53:29Speaker 2: and wherever he goes he leaves behind a lane of
- 5:53:32Speaker 2: slaughter'd foes. These his lance reaches over those he rolls
- 5:53:37Speaker 2: his rapid car and crushes out their souls in vain.
- 5:53:41Speaker 2: The vanquish'd fly. The victor sends the dead men's weapons
- 5:53:45Speaker 2: at their living friends. Thus, on the banks of hebris
- 5:53:49Speaker 2: freezing flood, the God of battles in his angry mood,
- 5:53:53Speaker 2: clashing his sword against his brazen shield. Let loose the reins,
- 5:53:58Speaker 2: and scours along the field before the wind. His fiery
- 5:54:02Speaker 2: coursers fly groans, the sad earth resounds, the rattling sky, wrath, terror, treason,
- 5:54:10Speaker 2: tumult and despair. Dire faces and deformed surround the car.
- 5:54:16Speaker 2: Friends of the God and followers of the war, with
- 5:54:19Speaker 2: fury not unlike nor less disdain. Exulting Turnus flies along
- 5:54:24Speaker 2: the plain, his smoking horses at their utmost speed. He
- 5:54:28Speaker 2: lashes on and urges o'er the dead. Their fetlocks run
- 5:54:33Speaker 2: with blood, and when they bound, the gore and gathering
- 5:54:37Speaker 2: dust are dashed around Thamyris and Pholus, masters of the war,
- 5:54:42Speaker 2: he killed at hand, but sthethemus afar from far. The
- 5:54:47Speaker 2: sons of Imbracus he slew. Glaucus and ladies of the
- 5:54:52Speaker 2: Lycian crew, both taught to fight on foot in battle,
- 5:54:56Speaker 2: joined or mount the courser that outstrips the wind. Meantime,
- 5:55:01Speaker 2: eumedes vaunting in the field, new fired the Trojans, and
- 5:55:06Speaker 2: their foes repelled. The son of Dolan bore his grandsire's name,
- 5:55:12Speaker 2: but emulated more his father's name. His guileful father sent
- 5:55:16Speaker 2: a knightly spy the Grecian camp and ordered to descry hard,
- 5:55:20Speaker 2: enterprise and well he might require achilles, car and horses
- 5:55:24Speaker 2: for his hire. But met upon the scout. The Eetonian
- 5:55:29Speaker 2: prince in death bestowed a juster recompense. Fierce Turnus viewed
- 5:55:33Speaker 2: the Trojan from Afar and launched his javelin from his
- 5:55:37Speaker 2: lofty car. Then, lightly leaping down, pursued the blow, and,
- 5:55:42Speaker 2: pressing with his foot his prostrate foe, wrenched from his
- 5:55:45Speaker 2: feeble hold the shining sword and plunged it in the
- 5:55:48Speaker 2: bosom of its lord possess, said he, the fruit of
- 5:55:52Speaker 2: all thy pains, and measure at thy length our Latian plains.
- 5:55:56Speaker 2: Thus are my foes rewarded by my hand. Thus may
- 5:55:59Speaker 2: they build their town and thus enjoy the land. Then
- 5:56:03Speaker 2: there is Beatus Siberus. He slew whom o'er his neck.
- 5:56:07Speaker 2: His floundering courser threw as when loud Bereas, with his
- 5:56:11Speaker 2: blustering trains, stoops from above, incumbent on the main. Wherever
- 5:56:15Speaker 2: he flies, he drives the rack before and rolls the
- 5:56:19Speaker 2: billows on the Aegean shore. So where resistless Turnus takes
- 5:56:24Speaker 2: his course, the scattered squadrons bend before his force. His
- 5:56:29Speaker 2: crest of horses hair is blown behind by adverse air
- 5:56:33Speaker 2: and rustles in the wind. This haughty Phoebius saw with
- 5:56:38Speaker 2: high disdain, And as the chariot rolled along the plain,
- 5:56:42Speaker 2: light from the ground, he leapt and sees the rain. Thus,
- 5:56:45Speaker 2: hung in air, he still retained his hold. The coursers
- 5:56:49Speaker 2: frighted and their course controlled. The lance of Turnus reached
- 5:56:52Speaker 2: him as he hung and pierced his plated arms, but
- 5:56:55Speaker 2: passed along and only raised his skin. He turned and
- 5:56:58Speaker 2: held against his threating foe. His ample shield then called
- 5:57:03Speaker 2: for aid, But while he cried in vain, the chariot
- 5:57:05Speaker 2: bore him backward. On the plain he lies reversed. The
- 5:57:09Speaker 2: victor king descends and strikes, so justly where his helmet ends,
- 5:57:13Speaker 2: he lops his head. The Latian fields are drunk with
- 5:57:17Speaker 2: streams that issue from the bleeding trunk. While he triumphs
- 5:57:22Speaker 2: and while the trojans yield, the wounded prince is forced
- 5:57:25Speaker 2: to leave the field. Strong Menethesus and Acades, often tried,
- 5:57:31Speaker 2: and young Ascanius, weeping by his side, conduct him to
- 5:57:34Speaker 2: his tent. Scarce can he rear his limbs from the earth.
- 5:57:38Speaker 2: Supported on his sphere, resolved in mind, regardless of the
- 5:57:42Speaker 2: smart he tugs with both his hands and breaks the dart.
- 5:57:46Speaker 2: The steel remains no readier way he found to draw
- 5:57:50Speaker 2: the weapon than to enlarge the wound. Eager of fight,
- 5:57:53Speaker 2: impatient of delay, he begs, and his unwilling friends obey
- 5:57:59Speaker 2: Iapis was at hand, and to prove his art, his
- 5:58:01Speaker 2: blooming youth so fired Apollo's heart that for his love
- 5:58:05Speaker 2: he proffered to bestow his tuneful harp and his unerring bow.
- 5:58:10Speaker 2: The pious youth, more studious how to save his aged sire,
- 5:58:13Speaker 2: now sinking to the grave, preferred the powers of plants
- 5:58:17Speaker 2: and silent praise of healing art. Before Phoeban bays propped
- 5:58:23Speaker 2: on his lance. The pensive heroes stood and heard, and
- 5:58:26Speaker 2: saw unmoved the mourning crowd. The famed physician tucked his
- 5:58:31Speaker 2: robes around with ready hands, and hastens to the wound
- 5:58:34Speaker 2: with gentle touches. He performs his part this way and that,
- 5:58:38Speaker 2: soliciting the dart, and exercises all his heavenly art, all
- 5:58:43Speaker 2: softening simples known of sovereign use. He presses out and
- 5:58:48Speaker 2: pours their noble juice, their first infuse. To lenify the pain,
- 5:58:53Speaker 2: he tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Then
- 5:58:57Speaker 2: to the patron of his art, he prayed. The patron
- 5:59:00Speaker 2: of his art refused his aid. Meantime, the war approaches
- 5:59:05Speaker 2: to the tents. The alarm grows hotter, and the noise augments.
- 5:59:10Speaker 2: The driving dust proclaims the danger near. And first their
- 5:59:15Speaker 2: friends and then their foes appear. Their friends retreat, their
- 5:59:19Speaker 2: foes pursue the rear. The camp is filled with terror
- 5:59:22Speaker 2: and affright. The hissing shafts within the trench alight, an
- 5:59:26Speaker 2: undistinguished noise ascends the sky, the shouts those who kill,
- 5:59:31Speaker 2: and the groans of those who die. But now the
- 5:59:34Speaker 2: Goddess Mother, moved with grief and pierced with pity, hastens
- 5:59:38Speaker 2: her relief. A branch of healing dettany she brought, which
- 5:59:43Speaker 2: in the Cretan fields. With care she sought rough as
- 5:59:47Speaker 2: the stern, which wooly leafs surround the leafs with flowers.
- 5:59:51Speaker 2: The flowers with purple crowned, well known to wounded goats,
- 5:59:55Speaker 2: a sure relief to draw the pointed steel and ease
- 5:59:58Speaker 2: the grief. Venus springs in clouds, involved and bruised. The
- 6:00:04Speaker 2: extracted liquor with ambrosian dews and odorous panacee unseen, she stands,
- 6:00:11Speaker 2: tempering the mixture with her heavenly hands, and pours it
- 6:00:14Speaker 2: in a bowl already crowned with juice of medicinal herbs,
- 6:00:18Speaker 2: prepared to bathe the wound. The leech unknowing of superior art,
- 6:00:23Speaker 2: which aids the cure. With this foments the part, and
- 6:00:28Speaker 2: in a moment sees the raging smart stanched is the blood,
- 6:00:32Speaker 2: and in the bottom stands the steel, but scarcely touched
- 6:00:37Speaker 2: with tender hands, moves up and follows of its own accord,
- 6:00:41Speaker 2: and health and vigor are at once restored. Iapis first
- 6:00:45Speaker 2: perceived the closing wound, and first the footsteps of a god.
- 6:00:50Speaker 2: He found arms, arms, He cries the sword and shield,
- 6:00:54Speaker 2: prepare and send the willing chief renewed to war. This
- 6:00:58Speaker 2: is no mortal work, no cure of mine nor art's effect,
- 6:01:02Speaker 2: but done by hands divine some God, our general to
- 6:01:05Speaker 2: the battle, sends some God preserved his life for greater ends.
- 6:01:10Speaker 2: The hero arms in haste his hands, unfold his thighs
- 6:01:14Speaker 2: with creaches of reflugent gold, inflamed to the fight, and
- 6:01:19Speaker 2: rushing to the field, that hand sustaining the celestial shield.
- 6:01:24Speaker 2: This scripts the lance, and with such vigor shakes that
- 6:01:28Speaker 2: to the rest the beamy weapon quakes. Then with a
- 6:01:32Speaker 2: close embrace, he strained his son, and kissing through his helmet,
- 6:01:36Speaker 2: Thus began my son, from my example, learn the war
- 6:01:40Speaker 2: and camps to suffer, and in fields to dare. But
- 6:01:44Speaker 2: happier chance than mine attends thy care. This day, my hand,
- 6:01:48Speaker 2: thy tender age, shall shield and crowns with honor of
- 6:01:52Speaker 2: the conquered field. Thou and thy riper years, send thee
- 6:01:56Speaker 2: forth to toils of war. Be mindful of my worth,
- 6:02:00Speaker 2: assert thy birthright, and in arms be known for Hector's
- 6:02:04Speaker 2: nephew and Aeneas's son. He said, and striding issued on
- 6:02:08Speaker 2: the plain, Anteus and Mnestheus, and a numerous train attend
- 6:02:13Speaker 2: his steps. The rest their weapons take, and crowding to
- 6:02:16Speaker 2: the field, the camp's forsake. A cloud of blinding dust
- 6:02:20Speaker 2: is raised around labors, beneath their feet the trembling ground.
- 6:02:26Speaker 2: Now Turnus, posted on a hill from far beheld the
- 6:02:29Speaker 2: progress of the moving war with him. The Latins viewed
- 6:02:33Speaker 2: the covered plains, and the chilled blood run backwards in
- 6:02:38Speaker 2: their veins. Jaturna saw the advancing troops appear, and heard
- 6:02:43Speaker 2: the hostile sound, and fled for fear. Aneas leads and
- 6:02:47Speaker 2: draws a sweeping train closed in their ranks and pouring
- 6:02:51Speaker 2: on the plain, as when a whirlwind rushing to the
- 6:02:55Speaker 2: shore from the mid ocean drives the waves. Before the
- 6:03:00Speaker 2: painful hind with heavy heart, foresees the flatted fields and
- 6:03:03Speaker 2: slaughter of the trees. With like impetuous rage. The prince
- 6:03:07Speaker 2: appears before his doubled front. Nor less destruction bears, and
- 6:03:13Speaker 2: now both armies shock in open field, Asiris is by
- 6:03:17Speaker 2: strong Thimbraeus killed archetas Euphuens Epulon are slain, all famed
- 6:03:25Speaker 2: in arms, and of the Latian train by Gaius, Menestheus
- 6:03:29Speaker 2: and Akati's hand. The fatal augur falls by whose command
- 6:03:35Speaker 2: the truce was broken, and whose lance embrewed with trojan blood.
- 6:03:39Speaker 2: The unhappy fight renewed. Loud shouts and clamors rend the
- 6:03:43Speaker 2: liquid sky, and o'er the field, frighted latins fly. The
- 6:03:47Speaker 2: Prince disdains the dastards to pursue, nor moves to meet
- 6:03:52Speaker 2: in arms. The fighting few turnus alone amid the dusky plain.
- 6:03:56Speaker 2: He seeks, and to the combat calls in vain. Jaturna
- 6:04:00Speaker 2: heard and seized with mortal fear. Forced from the beam,
- 6:04:04Speaker 2: her brother's charioteer assumes his shape, his armor, and his mien,
- 6:04:09Speaker 2: and like Mystiscus, in his seat is seen. End of
- 6:04:14Speaker 2: Book twelve, Part one, Book twelve, The Fortunes of War,
- 6:04:19Speaker 2: Part two. As the black swallows near the palace, plies
- 6:04:24Speaker 2: o'er empty courts and under arches, flies now hawks aloft
- 6:04:29Speaker 2: Now skims along the flood to furnish her loquacious nest
- 6:04:33Speaker 2: with food. So drives the rapid goddess o'er the plains.
- 6:04:39Speaker 2: The smoking horses run with loosened reins. She steers a
- 6:04:43Speaker 2: various course among the foes. Now here, now there her
- 6:04:47Speaker 2: conquering brother shows now with a straight now, with a
- 6:04:50Speaker 2: wheeling flight. She turns and bends, but shuns the single fight. Aneas,
- 6:04:56Speaker 2: fired with fury, breaks the crowd and seeks his foe
- 6:05:00Speaker 2: and calls by name aloud. He runs within a narrower
- 6:05:04Speaker 2: ring and tries to stop the chariot, but the chariot flies.
- 6:05:10Speaker 2: If he but gain a glimpse, Jaturna fears, and far
- 6:05:13Speaker 2: away the Danian hero bears, what should he do, nor arts,
- 6:05:19Speaker 2: nor arms, avail, and various cares in vain his mind
- 6:05:23Speaker 2: assail the great Messapus, thundering through the field in his
- 6:05:27Speaker 2: left hand, two pointed javelins held, encountering on the prince,
- 6:05:31Speaker 2: one dart he drew, and with unerring aim and utmost
- 6:05:35Speaker 2: vigor through Aneas saw it come, and, stooping low beneath
- 6:05:38Speaker 2: his buckler, shunned the threatening blow. The weapon hissed above
- 6:05:42Speaker 2: his head and tore the wavering plume which on his
- 6:05:45Speaker 2: helm he wore. Forced by this hostile act, and fired
- 6:05:49Speaker 2: with spite that flying Turnus still declined the fight. The Prince,
- 6:05:53Speaker 2: whose piety had long repelled his inborn ardor, now invades
- 6:05:58Speaker 2: the field, invokes the powers of violated peace, their rites
- 6:06:04Speaker 2: and injur'd altars to redress, then to his rage, abandoning
- 6:06:08Speaker 2: the rain with blood and slaughter'd bodies fills the plain.
- 6:06:13Speaker 2: What God can tell, what numbers can display the various
- 6:06:16Speaker 2: labors of that fatal day. What chiefs and champions fell
- 6:06:21Speaker 2: on either side in combat slain or by what deaths
- 6:06:24Speaker 2: they died? Whom turnus? Whom the Trojan hero kill'd, Who
- 6:06:29Speaker 2: shar'd the fame and fortune of the field. Jove couldst
- 6:06:33Speaker 2: thou view and not avert thy sight. Two jarring nations
- 6:06:37Speaker 2: join'd in cruel fight. Whom leagues of lasting love, so
- 6:06:41Speaker 2: shortly shall unite Aeneas First Rutulian Sucro found, whose valor
- 6:06:48Speaker 2: made the Trojans quit the ground betwixt his ribs. The
- 6:06:51Speaker 2: javelin drove so just it reach'd his heart, nor needs
- 6:06:55Speaker 2: a second thrust. Now turnus. At two blows, two brethrens
- 6:07:00Speaker 2: slew first from his horse, fierce Amycus he threw. Then,
- 6:07:05Speaker 2: leaping on the ground on foot, assailed Diorus, and in
- 6:07:09Speaker 2: equal fight, prevailed their lifeless trunks. He leaves upon the place,
- 6:07:14Speaker 2: their heads, distilling gore his chariot grace. Three cold on
- 6:07:19Speaker 2: earth the Trojan hero threw, whom without respite, at one charge,
- 6:07:24Speaker 2: he threw Cathagus Tenius Taegus fell oppressed, and sad anythes
- 6:07:30Speaker 2: added to the rest of theban blood whom Paridia bore.
- 6:07:35Speaker 2: Turnus two brothers from the Lycian's shore and from Apollo's
- 6:07:39Speaker 2: veine to battle, scent overthrew nor Phoebus. Could their fate
- 6:07:43Speaker 2: prevent peaceful menothes. After these he killed, who long had
- 6:07:48Speaker 2: shunned the dangers of the field on Lerna's lake. A
- 6:07:51Speaker 2: silent life he led, and with his nets and angle,
- 6:07:54Speaker 2: earned his bread, nor pompous cares, nor palace, as he knew,
- 6:07:58Speaker 2: but wisely from the infectious war world withdrew. Poor was
- 6:08:01Speaker 2: his house, his father's painful hand, discharged his rent and
- 6:08:05Speaker 2: plowed another's land. As flames along the lofty woods are
- 6:08:10Speaker 2: thrown on different sides, and both by winds are blown,
- 6:08:14Speaker 2: the laurels crackle and the sputtering fire. The frightened Sylvans
- 6:08:18Speaker 2: from their shades retire, where as two neighboring Torrents fall
- 6:08:22Speaker 2: from the sky rapid they run, the foamy waters fry.
- 6:08:26Speaker 2: They rolled to the sea with unresisted force, and down
- 6:08:30Speaker 2: the rocks precipitate their course. Not with less rage. The
- 6:08:35Speaker 2: rival heroes take their different ways, nor less destruction, make
- 6:08:40Speaker 2: with spears afar, with swords at hand, they strike, and
- 6:08:43Speaker 2: zeal of slaughter fires their souls alike like them, their
- 6:08:48Speaker 2: dauntless men maintain the field, and hearts are pierced. Unknowing
- 6:08:52Speaker 2: how to yield, they blow for blow, return and wound
- 6:08:55Speaker 2: for wound, and heaps of bodies raise the level ground. Maranus,
- 6:09:02Speaker 2: boasting of his blood that springs from a long royal
- 6:09:05Speaker 2: race of Latian kings, is by the Trojan from his
- 6:09:09Speaker 2: chariot throne, crushed with the weight of an unwieldy stone
- 6:09:13Speaker 2: betwixt the wheels, he fell, the wheels that bore his
- 6:09:17Speaker 2: living load. His dying body tore his starting steeds to shun.
- 6:09:22Speaker 2: The glittering sword, pawed down his trampled limbs. Forgetful of
- 6:09:27Speaker 2: their lord, fierce Hylas threatened high and face to face,
- 6:09:31Speaker 2: affronted Turnus in the middle space. The prince encountered him
- 6:09:35Speaker 2: in full career, and at his temples aimed a deadly spear.
- 6:09:39Speaker 2: So fatally the flying weapon sped that through his helmet
- 6:09:42Speaker 2: pierced his head. Nor Asissius could escape from Turna's hand
- 6:09:47Speaker 2: in vain, the strongest of the Arcadian band, nor to Capentus.
- 6:09:52Speaker 2: Could his gods afford availing against the Enean's sword, which,
- 6:09:57Speaker 2: to his naked heart pursued the course. Could his plated
- 6:10:01Speaker 2: shield sustain the force Iolas fell, whom not the Grecian
- 6:10:05Speaker 2: powers nor great subverter of the Trojan towers were doomed
- 6:10:09Speaker 2: to kill while Heaven prolonged his date. But who can
- 6:10:13Speaker 2: pass the bounds prefixed by fate? In High Leernesis and
- 6:10:18Speaker 2: in Troy, he held two palaces, and was from each
- 6:10:21Speaker 2: expelled of all the mighty man, the last remains a
- 6:10:25Speaker 2: little spot of foreign earth contains, and now both hosts,
- 6:10:32Speaker 2: their broken troops unite in equal ranks and mix in
- 6:10:36Speaker 2: mortal fight. Sereththus and undaunted Menetus joined the Trojan, Tuscan
- 6:10:42Speaker 2: and Arcadian line. Sea born Messapus with Atinus heads the
- 6:10:47Speaker 2: Latin squadrons, and to battle leads. They strike, They pushed,
- 6:10:52Speaker 2: They thronged the scanty space, resolved on death, impatient of disgrace,
- 6:10:57Speaker 2: and where one falls, another fills his place. The Cyprian
- 6:11:02Speaker 2: goddess now inspires her son to leave the unfinished fight
- 6:11:06Speaker 2: and storm the town. For while he rolls his eyes
- 6:11:09Speaker 2: around the plane in quest of Turnus whom he seeks
- 6:11:12Speaker 2: in vain. He views the unguarded city from afar, in
- 6:11:16Speaker 2: careless quiet and secure of war. Occasion offers and excites
- 6:11:21Speaker 2: his mind to dare beyond the task he first designed. Resolved,
- 6:11:25Speaker 2: he calls his chiefs. They leave the fight attended. Thus
- 6:11:28Speaker 2: he takes a neighboring height. The crowding troops about their
- 6:11:31Speaker 2: general stand all under arms and wait his high command.
- 6:11:37Speaker 2: Then thus the lofty prince hear and obey ye trojan
- 6:11:41Speaker 2: bands without the least delay. Jove is with us, and
- 6:11:45Speaker 2: what I have decreed requires our utmost vigor and our speed.
- 6:11:50Speaker 2: Your instant arms against the town prepare the source of
- 6:11:54Speaker 2: mischief and the seat of war. This day, the latian
- 6:11:57Speaker 2: towers that mate the sky shall level with the plane
- 6:12:00Speaker 2: in ashes lie. The people shall be slaves unless in
- 6:12:05Speaker 2: their time they kneel for pardon and repent their crime.
- 6:12:08Speaker 2: Twice have our foes been vanquished on the plane. Then
- 6:12:11Speaker 2: shall I wait till turnus will be slain. Your force
- 6:12:15Speaker 2: against the perjured city bend there it began, and there
- 6:12:18Speaker 2: the war shall end. The peace profaned, our rightful arms
- 6:12:22Speaker 2: requires cleanse the polluted place with purging fires. He finished,
- 6:12:29Speaker 2: and one soul inspiring, all formed in a wedge. The
- 6:12:32Speaker 2: foot approached the wall without the town an unprovided train
- 6:12:37Speaker 2: of gaping gazing citizens are slain, some firebrands, other scaling
- 6:12:42Speaker 2: ladders bear, and those they toss aloft, and these they rear.
- 6:12:47Speaker 2: The flames now launched, the feathered arrows fly, and clouds
- 6:12:51Speaker 2: of missive arms obscure the sky. Advancing to the front,
- 6:12:56Speaker 2: the hero stands and, stretching out to heaven, his pious
- 6:12:59Speaker 2: hand attests the gods, asserts his innocence, upbraids with breach
- 6:13:05Speaker 2: of faith. They Ausonian prince declares the royal honor doubly stained,
- 6:13:10Speaker 2: and twice the rites of holy peace profaned. Dissenting clamours
- 6:13:16Speaker 2: in the town arise. Each will be heard, and all
- 6:13:19Speaker 2: at once advise, one part for peace, one for war, contends,
- 6:13:23Speaker 2: some would exclude their foes, and some admit their friends.
- 6:13:27Speaker 2: The helpless king is hurried in the throng, and whatever
- 6:13:31Speaker 2: the tide prevails is borne along. Thus, when the swain
- 6:13:34Speaker 2: within a hollow rock invades the bees with suffocating smoke,
- 6:13:39Speaker 2: they run around or labour on their wings, disused to flight,
- 6:13:43Speaker 2: and shoot their sleepy stings to shun the bitter fumes
- 6:13:47Speaker 2: in vain. They try. Black vapors issuing from the vent
- 6:13:51Speaker 2: involve the sky, but fate and envious fortune now prepare
- 6:13:57Speaker 2: to plunge the latins. In the last despair, the queen,
- 6:14:02Speaker 2: who saw the foes invade the town and brands on
- 6:14:05Speaker 2: top of burning houses, thrown cast round her eyes, distracted
- 6:14:09Speaker 2: with her fear, no troops of turnus in the field
- 6:14:12Speaker 2: appear once more. She stares abroad, but still in vain,
- 6:14:16Speaker 2: and then concludes the royal youth is slain. Mad with
- 6:14:20Speaker 2: her anguish, impotent to bear the mighty grief, she loathes
- 6:14:24Speaker 2: the vital air. She calls herself the cause of all
- 6:14:27Speaker 2: this ill, and owns the dire effects of her ungoverned will.
- 6:14:31Speaker 2: She raves against the gods. She beats her breast, She
- 6:14:36Speaker 2: tears with both her hands her purple vests, then round
- 6:14:40Speaker 2: a beam a running noose she tied and fastened by
- 6:14:43Speaker 2: the neck obscenely died. Soon as the fatal news by
- 6:14:47Speaker 2: fame was blown, and to her dames and to her
- 6:14:50Speaker 2: daughter known the sad Lavinia rends her yellow hair and
- 6:14:54Speaker 2: rosy cheeks. The rest her sorrow's share with shrieks the
- 6:14:59Speaker 2: palace ring and madness of despair. Despreading rumor fills the
- 6:15:03Speaker 2: public place. Confusion, fear, distraction, and disgrace and silent shame
- 6:15:10Speaker 2: are seen in every face. Latinus tears his garments as
- 6:15:14Speaker 2: he goes, both for his public and his private woes.
- 6:15:19Speaker 2: With filth, his venerable beard besmears, and sordid dust deforms
- 6:15:25Speaker 2: his silver hairs, and much he blames the softness of
- 6:15:29Speaker 2: his mind, obnoxious to the charms of womankind, and soon
- 6:15:33Speaker 2: seduced to change what he so well designed, to break
- 6:15:37Speaker 2: the solemn league, so long desired, nor finish what his
- 6:15:40Speaker 2: fates and those of Troy required. Now turnus rolls aloof
- 6:15:46Speaker 2: o'er empty planes, and here and there some struggling foes
- 6:15:50Speaker 2: he gleans his flying coursers please him, less and less,
- 6:15:54Speaker 2: ashamed of easy fight and cheap success. Thus half contented,
- 6:15:59Speaker 2: and in his mind, the distant cries come driving in
- 6:16:03Speaker 2: the wind, shouts from the walls, but shouts and murmurs drowned,
- 6:16:08Speaker 2: a jarring mixture and aboding sound. Alas that he what
- 6:16:13Speaker 2: mean these dismal cries? What doleful clamors from the town arise? Confused,
- 6:16:18Speaker 2: he stops and backward pulls the reins. She who the
- 6:16:23Speaker 2: Driver's office now sustains, replies, neglect, my lord, these new
- 6:16:28Speaker 2: alarms here fight and urge the fortune of your arms.
- 6:16:32Speaker 2: There want not others to defend the wall. If by
- 6:16:36Speaker 2: your rival's hand the Italians fall, so shall your fatal
- 6:16:40Speaker 2: sword his friends oppressed, and honor equal and success to
- 6:16:46Speaker 2: this the prince o sister, For I knew the peace
- 6:16:49Speaker 2: infringed proceeded first from you. I knew you when you mingled,
- 6:16:53Speaker 2: first in fight, and now in vain. You would deceive
- 6:16:56Speaker 2: my sight? Why Goddess this unprofitable hair who sent you
- 6:17:01Speaker 2: down from heaven involved in air your share of mortal
- 6:17:05Speaker 2: sorrows to sustain and see your brother bleeding on the plain.
- 6:17:09Speaker 2: For to what power can turn us overcourse? Or how
- 6:17:12Speaker 2: resist his fate's prevailing force? These eyes beheld Moranus by
- 6:17:18Speaker 2: the ground, mighty the man, and mighty was the wound.
- 6:17:23Speaker 2: I heard my dearest friend, with dying breath my name,
- 6:17:27Speaker 2: invoking to revenge his death. Brave Euphuens fell with honor
- 6:17:32Speaker 2: on the place, to shun the shameful sight of my disgrace.
- 6:17:37Speaker 2: On Earth's supine. A manly corpse, he lies his vest
- 6:17:41Speaker 2: and armor are the victor's prize. Then shall I see
- 6:17:45Speaker 2: Laurentum in a flame, which only wanted to complete my shame?
- 6:17:51Speaker 2: How will the latins hoot their champion's flight, How drances
- 6:17:56Speaker 2: will insult and point them to the sight? Is death
- 6:18:00Speaker 2: so hard to bear, ye gods below, since those above
- 6:18:04Speaker 2: so small, compassion show receive a soul and sullied, yet
- 6:18:08Speaker 2: with shame which not belies my great forefather's name, he said,
- 6:18:14Speaker 2: And while he spoke, with flying speed, came Sages, urging
- 6:18:18Speaker 2: on his foamy steed. Fixed on his wound, did face
- 6:18:22Speaker 2: the shaft he bore, and seeking turnus, sent his voice
- 6:18:25Speaker 2: before turnus on you. On you alone depends our last relief.
- 6:18:30Speaker 2: Compassionate your friends. Like lightning, fierce Eneas, rolling on with
- 6:18:34Speaker 2: arms and vests with flames, invades the town. The brands
- 6:18:38Speaker 2: are tossed on high, The winds conspire to drive along
- 6:18:41Speaker 2: the dluge of the fire. All eyes are fixed on you.
- 6:18:44Speaker 2: Your foes rejoice. Even the king's staggers and suspends his
- 6:18:49Speaker 2: choice doubts to deliver or defend the town. Whom to
- 6:18:52Speaker 2: reject or whom to call his son the queen on
- 6:18:55Speaker 2: whom your utmost hopes were placed her self suborning death
- 6:19:00Speaker 2: has breathed her last. Tis true, miss Apos, fearless of
- 6:19:04Speaker 2: his fate. With fears a tenus aid defends the gait
- 6:19:09Speaker 2: on every side, surrounded by the foe. The more they kill,
- 6:19:12Speaker 2: the greater numbers grow. An iron harvest mounts and still
- 6:19:19Speaker 2: remains to mow you far aloof from your forsaken bands.
- 6:19:24Speaker 2: Your rolling chariot drive over empty stupid, he sate, his
- 6:19:29Speaker 2: eyes on death, declined and various cares revolving in his mind,
- 6:19:34Speaker 2: rage boiling from the bottom of his heart, and sorrow
- 6:19:38Speaker 2: mixed with shame. His soul oppressed and conscious worth lay
- 6:19:42Speaker 2: laboring in his thought and love by jealousy to madness,
- 6:19:46Speaker 2: wrought by slow degrees, his reason drove away the mists
- 6:19:51Speaker 2: of passion and resumed her sway. Then, rising on his car,
- 6:19:56Speaker 2: he turned his look and saw the town involved in
- 6:19:58Speaker 2: fire and smoke, a wooden tower with flames already blaze,
- 6:20:03Speaker 2: which his own hands on, beams and rafters raised, and
- 6:20:07Speaker 2: bridges laid above to join the space and wheels below
- 6:20:11Speaker 2: to roll from place to place. Sister, the fates have vanquished.
- 6:20:16Speaker 2: Let us go the way which heaven and my hard
- 6:20:19Speaker 2: fortunes show the fight is fixed. Nor shall the branded
- 6:20:23Speaker 2: name of a base coward blot your brother's fame. Death
- 6:20:28Speaker 2: is my choice, But suffer me to try my force
- 6:20:31Speaker 2: and vent my rage before I die, he said, and,
- 6:20:36Speaker 2: leaping down without delay, through crowds of scattered foes, he
- 6:20:39Speaker 2: freed his way. Striding, he passed, impetuous as the wind,
- 6:20:44Speaker 2: and left the grieving goddess far behind. As when a
- 6:20:48Speaker 2: fragment from a mountain torn by raging tempests or by torrents,
- 6:20:53Speaker 2: born or sapped by time, or loosed from the roots,
- 6:20:57Speaker 2: prone through the void the rocky room, and shoots, rolling
- 6:21:01Speaker 2: from crag to crag, from steep to steep, down sink
- 6:21:05Speaker 2: at once the shepherds and their sheep involved alike, they
- 6:21:09Speaker 2: rush to nether ground. Stunned with the shock, they fall,
- 6:21:13Speaker 2: and stunned from earth rebound. So turn us, hasting headlong
- 6:21:18Speaker 2: into town, shouldering and shoving, bore the squadrons down. Still
- 6:21:23Speaker 2: pressing onwards to the wall, he drew, where shafts and
- 6:21:28Speaker 2: spears and darts promiscuous flew and sanguine streams the slippery
- 6:21:33Speaker 2: ground and brew first, stretching out his arm in sign
- 6:21:37Speaker 2: of peace, he cries aloud to make the combats cease.
- 6:21:42Speaker 2: Rutulians hold and Latin troops retire. The fight is mine
- 6:21:46Speaker 2: and me. The gods require tis just that I should
- 6:21:49Speaker 2: vindicate alone the broken truce, or for the breach atone
- 6:21:53Speaker 2: this day shall free from wars the Usonian state, or
- 6:21:57Speaker 2: finish my misfortunes in my fate. Both armies, from their
- 6:22:01Speaker 2: bloody work, desists, and bearing backwards, form a spacious list.
- 6:22:06Speaker 2: The Trojan hero, who received from fame the welcome sound
- 6:22:10Speaker 2: and heard the champion's name, soon leaves the taken works
- 6:22:14Speaker 2: and mounted walls, greedy of war. Where the greater glory calls,
- 6:22:19Speaker 2: he springs to fight, exulting in his force. His jointed
- 6:22:23Speaker 2: armour rattles in the course. Like erichs or like Athos Great,
- 6:22:28Speaker 2: he shows, or Father Eponine, when white with snows, his
- 6:22:33Speaker 2: head divine obscure in clouds, he hides and shakes the
- 6:22:38Speaker 2: sounding forests on his sides. The nations, over awed succrease
- 6:22:43Speaker 2: the fight, immovable, their bodies fix their sight. Even death
- 6:22:49Speaker 2: stands still. Nor from above they throw their darts, nor
- 6:22:53Speaker 2: drive their battering rams below. In silent order. Either army
- 6:22:57Speaker 2: stands and drop their swords unknown from their hands. The
- 6:23:02Speaker 2: Ausonian king beholds with wondering sight, two mighty champions matched
- 6:23:06Speaker 2: in single fight, borne under climes, remote and brought by fate,
- 6:23:11Speaker 2: with swords to try their titles to the state. Now
- 6:23:14Speaker 2: inclosed field each other. From afar, they view, and, rushing
- 6:23:18Speaker 2: on begin the war. They launch their spears. Then hand
- 6:23:22Speaker 2: to hand they meet. The trembling soil resounds beneath their feet.
- 6:23:26Speaker 2: Their bucklers clash, their blows descend from high, and flakes
- 6:23:31Speaker 2: of fire from their hard helmets fly. Courage conspires with chance,
- 6:23:37Speaker 2: and both engage with equal fortunes, yet and mutual rage,
- 6:23:42Speaker 2: as when two bulls for their fair female fight in
- 6:23:45Speaker 2: silas shades, or on Tibernus's height with horns adverse, they
- 6:23:51Speaker 2: meet the keeper flies mute stands the herd. Their heifers
- 6:23:55Speaker 2: roll their eyes and wait the event, which victor they
- 6:23:59Speaker 2: shall bear, and who shall be the lord to rule
- 6:24:02Speaker 2: the lusty year With rage of love, the jealous rivals
- 6:24:06Speaker 2: burn and push'd for push, and wound for wound return,
- 6:24:11Speaker 2: their dew laps scored, their sides are laughed, and blood
- 6:24:16Speaker 2: loud cries and roaring sounds rebello through the wood. Such
- 6:24:20Speaker 2: was the combat in the listed ground. So clash'd their swords,
- 6:24:24Speaker 2: and so their shields resound. Jove sets the beam in
- 6:24:29Speaker 2: either scale, he lays the champion's fate, and each exactly weighs.
- 6:24:35Speaker 2: On this side, life and lucky chance ascends, loaded with death.
- 6:24:39Speaker 2: That other scale descends. Raised on the stretch, young Turnus
- 6:24:44Speaker 2: aims a blow full on the helm of his unguarded foe. Shrill,
- 6:24:48Speaker 2: shouts and clamors ring on either side, as hopes and
- 6:24:52Speaker 2: fears their panting hearts divide, but all in pieces flies
- 6:24:57Speaker 2: the traitor's sword, and in the middle stroke deserts. His lord.
- 6:25:01Speaker 2: Now is but death or flight. Disarmed, he flies when
- 6:25:05Speaker 2: in his hand an unknown hilt, he spies Fame. Says
- 6:25:09Speaker 2: that turn Us, when his steeds he joined, hurrying to war,
- 6:25:12Speaker 2: disordered in his mind, snatched the first weapon which his
- 6:25:15Speaker 2: haste could find. Tis not the faded sword his father bore,
- 6:25:19Speaker 2: but that his charioteer Mesticus war this while the Trojans fled.
- 6:25:24Speaker 2: The toughness held but vain against the great Volcanian shield.
- 6:25:29Speaker 2: The mortal, tempered steel deceived his hand. The shivered fragments
- 6:25:33Speaker 2: shone amid the sand, Surprised with fear, he fled along
- 6:25:38Speaker 2: the field, and now forthright and now in orbits wheeled
- 6:25:43Speaker 2: for here the trojan troops. The lists surround, and there
- 6:25:47Speaker 2: the past is closed with pools and marshy ground. Aneas hastens,
- 6:25:52Speaker 2: though with heavier pace, his wound so newly knit, retards
- 6:25:56Speaker 2: the chase, and oft his trembling knees there a refuse,
- 6:26:01Speaker 2: Yet pressing foot by foot, his foe pursues. Thus, when
- 6:26:06Speaker 2: a fearful stag is closed around with crimson toils, or
- 6:26:10Speaker 2: in a river found high on the bank, the deep
- 6:26:14Speaker 2: mouth hound appears, still opening, following still wherever he steers,
- 6:26:20Speaker 2: the persecuted creature to and fro turns here and there
- 6:26:23Speaker 2: to escape his Umbrian foe. Steep is the ascent, and
- 6:26:28Speaker 2: if he gains the land, the purple death is pitched
- 6:26:31Speaker 2: along the strand his eager foe, determined to the chase,
- 6:26:36Speaker 2: stretched at his length, gains ground at every pace. Now
- 6:26:40Speaker 2: to his balmy head he makes his way, and now
- 6:26:43Speaker 2: he holds, or thinks he holds his prey. Just at
- 6:26:46Speaker 2: the pitch, the stag springs out with fear. He bites
- 6:26:50Speaker 2: the wind and fills his sounding jaws with air, the rocks,
- 6:26:54Speaker 2: the lakes, the meadows, ring with cries, the mortal tumult
- 6:26:58Speaker 2: mounts and thunder in the skies. Thus flies the Daenian prince,
- 6:27:04Speaker 2: and flying blames his tardy troops, calling by their names,
- 6:27:08Speaker 2: demands his trusty sword. The trojan threats the realm with
- 6:27:13Speaker 2: ruin and their ancient seats to lay in ashes if
- 6:27:16Speaker 2: they dare supply with arms or aid his vanquished enemy.
- 6:27:21Speaker 2: Thus menacing, he still pursues the course with vigor, though
- 6:27:24Speaker 2: diminished of his force ten times already the listed place
- 6:27:28Speaker 2: when chief has fled and the other given chase, no
- 6:27:31Speaker 2: trivial prize is played for on the life or death
- 6:27:34Speaker 2: of Turnus now depends the strife within the space. An
- 6:27:39Speaker 2: olive tree had stood a sacred shade of venerable wood
- 6:27:44Speaker 2: for vows to fawnace pay the Latin's guardian god. Here
- 6:27:47Speaker 2: hung the vests and tablets were engraved of sinking mariners
- 6:27:52Speaker 2: from shipwrecked. Save with heedless hands, the Trojans felled the
- 6:27:57Speaker 2: tree to make the ground enclosed for car that free
- 6:28:01Speaker 2: deep in the root. Whether by fate or chance or
- 6:28:05Speaker 2: erring haste, the trojan drove his lance, then stooped and
- 6:28:09Speaker 2: tugg'd with force immense to free the encumbered spear from
- 6:28:12Speaker 2: the tenacious tree that whom his fainting limbs pursued. In vain,
- 6:28:17Speaker 2: his flying weapon might from far attain confused with fear,
- 6:28:23Speaker 2: bereft of human aid. Then turn us to the gods,
- 6:28:26Speaker 2: and first to fawnas prayed, O fawnas pity, And thou
- 6:28:30Speaker 2: Mother Earth, where I thy foster son, received my birth,
- 6:28:33Speaker 2: Hold fast the steel. If my religious hand your plant
- 6:28:37Speaker 2: has honored, which your foes profaned, propitious here my prayers,
- 6:28:41Speaker 2: he said, Nor would successless vows invoked their aid. The
- 6:28:45Speaker 2: incumbent hero wrenched and pulled and strained, but still the
- 6:28:49Speaker 2: stubborn Earth, the steel detained. Chaturna took her time, and
- 6:28:54Speaker 2: while in vain, he strove assumed meticus form again, and
- 6:29:00Speaker 2: in that imitated shape, restored the despairing prince his Danian's sword.
- 6:29:05Speaker 2: The Queen of Love, who with disdain and grief saw
- 6:29:08Speaker 2: the bold nymph, afford this prompt relief to assert her
- 6:29:13Speaker 2: offspring with a greater deed. From the tough root of
- 6:29:16Speaker 2: the lingering weapon, freed once more erect, the rival chiefs advance.
- 6:29:23Speaker 2: One trusts the sword, the other the pointed lance, and
- 6:29:28Speaker 2: both resolved alike to try their fatal chance. Meantime, Imperial
- 6:29:34Speaker 2: jove to Juno speak, who from a shining cloud beheld
- 6:29:38Speaker 2: the shock? What new arrest O, Queen of Heaven, is
- 6:29:42Speaker 2: sent to stop the fatesnow laboring in the event? What
- 6:29:47Speaker 2: farther hopes are left thee to pursue divine aeneas? And
- 6:29:51Speaker 2: thou know'st too, for doomed to these celestial seats are due?
- 6:29:56Speaker 2: What more attempts for Turnus can be made that this
- 6:30:00Speaker 2: thou lingerest in this lonely shade? Is it becoming of
- 6:30:03Speaker 2: the due respect and awful honor of a god? Elect
- 6:30:06Speaker 2: a wound unworthy of our state to feel patient of
- 6:30:10Speaker 2: human hands and earthly steel, or seemed adjust the sister
- 6:30:14Speaker 2: should restore a second sword when one was last before,
- 6:30:18Speaker 2: and arm a conquered wretch against his conqueror. For what
- 6:30:23Speaker 2: without thy knowledge? And avow nay more thy dictate durst
- 6:30:26Speaker 2: to turn Ado at last, in deference to my love
- 6:30:30Speaker 2: forbear to lodge within thy soul this anxious care reclined
- 6:30:35Speaker 2: upon thy breast, Thy grief unload. Who should relieve the goddess?
- 6:30:40Speaker 2: But the God now all things to their utmost issue,
- 6:30:44Speaker 2: tend pushed by the fates to their appointed while leave
- 6:30:48Speaker 2: was given thee and a lawful hour for vengeance, wrath
- 6:30:52Speaker 2: and unresisted power tossed on the seas thou could thy
- 6:30:56Speaker 2: foes distress and driven ashore with hostile arms, press to
- 6:31:01Speaker 2: form the royal house, and from the side of the
- 6:31:05Speaker 2: just bridegroom tear the plighted bride. Now cease at my command,
- 6:31:10Speaker 2: the thunderer said, and with dejected eyes this answered, Juno
- 6:31:14Speaker 2: made because your dread decree too well. I knew from
- 6:31:19Speaker 2: turnus and from Earth. Unwilling I withdrew else should you
- 6:31:23Speaker 2: not behold me here alone, involved in empty clouds my
- 6:31:27Speaker 2: friend's bemoan, but girt with vengeful flames and open sight,
- 6:31:31Speaker 2: engaged against my foes and mortal fight. Tis true. Jaturna,
- 6:31:35Speaker 2: mingled in the strife by my command to save her
- 6:31:38Speaker 2: brother's life at least to try, but by the Stygian lake,
- 6:31:43Speaker 2: the most religious oath the gods can take. With this restriction,
- 6:31:47Speaker 2: not to bend the bow, or toss the spear, or
- 6:31:50Speaker 2: trembling dark to throw, and now resign to your superior might.
- 6:31:54Speaker 2: And tired with fruitless toils. I loathe the fight. This
- 6:31:58Speaker 2: let me beg and this no fates withstand, both for
- 6:32:02Speaker 2: myself and for your father's land, that when the nuptial
- 6:32:06Speaker 2: bed shall bind the peace which I, since you ordain,
- 6:32:09Speaker 2: consent to bless. The laws of either nation be the same.
- 6:32:13Speaker 2: But let the Latins still retain their name, speak the
- 6:32:16Speaker 2: same language which they spoke before, where the same habits
- 6:32:20Speaker 2: which their grandsires wore call them not Trojans. Perish the
- 6:32:24Speaker 2: renown and name of Troy, with that detested town Latium
- 6:32:30Speaker 2: be Latium. Still, Let Alba reign and Rome's immortal majesty remain. Then,
- 6:32:37Speaker 2: Thus the founder of mankind replies, unruffled, was his front serene?
- 6:32:42Speaker 2: His eyes can Saturn's issue and Heaven's other heir such
- 6:32:47Speaker 2: endless anger in her bosom, Bear be, mistress, and your
- 6:32:50Speaker 2: full desires obtained, but quenched the collar you foment in
- 6:32:53Speaker 2: vain from ancient blood. The Ausonian people Sprung shall keep
- 6:32:58Speaker 2: their name, their habit, and their tongue. The Trojans, to
- 6:33:01Speaker 2: their customs shall be tied. I will myself their common
- 6:33:05Speaker 2: rights provide. The natives shall command the foreigners subside. All
- 6:33:10Speaker 2: shall be Latium Troy without a name, and her lost
- 6:33:15Speaker 2: sons forget from whence they came from blood so mixed,
- 6:33:20Speaker 2: a pious race shall flow equal to gods, excelling all below.
- 6:33:25Speaker 2: No nation more respect to you shall pay, or greater
- 6:33:28Speaker 2: offerings on your altars.
- 6:33:30Speaker 1: Lay.
- 6:33:31Speaker 2: Juno consents well, please that her desires found success, and
- 6:33:36Speaker 2: from the cloud retires the peace thus made the thunder
- 6:33:40Speaker 2: and next prepares to force the watery goddess from the wars.
- 6:33:44Speaker 2: Deep in the dismal regions, void of light, three daughters,
- 6:33:48Speaker 2: at a birth were born to night. These their brown mother,
- 6:33:52Speaker 2: brooding on her care, endued with windy wings, to flit
- 6:33:56Speaker 2: in air with serpents girt alike, and crowned with hissing hair.
- 6:34:01Speaker 2: In heaven the dray called, And still at hand before
- 6:34:05Speaker 2: the throne of angry Jove, they stand his ministers of wrath,
- 6:34:10Speaker 2: and ready still the minds of mortal men with fears
- 6:34:14Speaker 2: to fill. Whenever the moody sire to wreak his hate
- 6:34:18Speaker 2: on realms or towns deserving of their fate, hurls down diseases,
- 6:34:23Speaker 2: death and deadly care, and terrifies the guilty world with war.
- 6:34:29Speaker 2: One sister plague. If these from heaven he sent to
- 6:34:33Speaker 2: fright Turna with a dire portent. The pest comes whirling
- 6:34:37Speaker 2: down by far more slow springs, the swift arrow from
- 6:34:41Speaker 2: the parthen bau or side on you when traversing the
- 6:34:45Speaker 2: skies and drenched in poisonous juice, the sure destruction flies
- 6:34:50Speaker 2: with such a sudden and unseen a flight shot through
- 6:34:54Speaker 2: the clouds. The daughter of the night. Soon as the
- 6:34:57Speaker 2: field enclosed she had in view, and from Afar her
- 6:35:01Speaker 2: destined quarry knew contracted to the boding bird she turns,
- 6:35:06Speaker 2: which haunts the ruined piles and hallowed urns, and beats
- 6:35:10Speaker 2: about the tombs with knightly wings, where songs obscene on
- 6:35:14Speaker 2: seffultures she sings, thus lessened in her form, with frightful cries.
- 6:35:20Speaker 2: The fury round unhappy Turnus flies flaps on his shield
- 6:35:25Speaker 2: and flutters o'er his eyes. A lazy chillness crept along
- 6:35:30Speaker 2: his blood. Choked was his voice, his hair. With horror
- 6:35:34Speaker 2: stood Jaturna from Afar beheld her fly and knew the
- 6:35:39Speaker 2: ill omen by her screaming cry and strider of her wings.
- 6:35:44Speaker 2: Amazed with fear her beauteous breast, she beat and rent
- 6:35:49Speaker 2: her flowing hair ah me, she cries, in this unequal strife,
- 6:35:54Speaker 2: What can thy sister more to save thy life? Weak
- 6:35:58Speaker 2: as I am, can I alas contend in arms with
- 6:36:02Speaker 2: that inexorable fiend. Now now I quit the field forbear
- 6:36:06Speaker 2: to fright my tender soul. Ye, baleful birds of night,
- 6:36:10Speaker 2: the lashing of your wings, I know too well, the
- 6:36:13Speaker 2: sounding flight and funeral screams of hell. These are the
- 6:36:17Speaker 2: gifts you bring from haughty Jove, the worthy recompense of
- 6:36:22Speaker 2: my ravish love. Did he for this exempt my life
- 6:36:26Speaker 2: from fate? Oh, hard conditions of immortal state, though born
- 6:36:30Speaker 2: to death, not privilege to die, but forced to bear
- 6:36:34Speaker 2: imposed eternity. Take back your envious bribes and let me
- 6:36:39Speaker 2: go companion to my brother's ghosts. Below the joys are vanished.
- 6:36:44Speaker 2: Nothing now remains of life immortal but immortal pains. What
- 6:36:49Speaker 2: earth will open her devouring womb to rest a weary
- 6:36:53Speaker 2: goddess in the tomb, She drew a length of sighs.
- 6:36:58Speaker 2: Nor more, she said, but in her azure mantle wrapped
- 6:37:01Speaker 2: her head. Then plunged into her stream with a deep despair,
- 6:37:05Speaker 2: and her last sobs came bubbling up in air. Now
- 6:37:09Speaker 2: stern aeneas his weighty spear against his foe, and thus
- 6:37:14Speaker 2: upbraids his fear. What farther subterfuge can turnus? Find? What
- 6:37:19Speaker 2: empty hopes are harbored in his mind? Tis not thy
- 6:37:23Speaker 2: swiftness can secure thy flight, nor with their feet but
- 6:37:27Speaker 2: hands the valiant fight bury thy shape in thousand forms,
- 6:37:31Speaker 2: And dare what skill and courage can attempt in war?
- 6:37:35Speaker 2: Wish for the wings of winds to mount the sky,
- 6:37:38Speaker 2: or hid within the hollow earth to lie? The champion
- 6:37:42Speaker 2: shook his head and made this short reply, No threats
- 6:37:46Speaker 2: of thine my manly mind can move tis hostile heaven,
- 6:37:50Speaker 2: I dread and partial jove, He said no more, but
- 6:37:55Speaker 2: with a sigh, repressed the mighty sorrow in his swelling breast. Then,
- 6:38:00Speaker 2: as he rolled his troubled eyes around an antique stone,
- 6:38:03Speaker 2: he saw the common bound of neighboring fields and barrier
- 6:38:07Speaker 2: of the ground so vast that twelve strong men of
- 6:38:10Speaker 2: modern days the enormous weight from earth could hardly raise.
- 6:38:15Speaker 2: He heaved it at a lift and poised on high
- 6:38:19Speaker 2: ran staggering on his enemy, but so disordered that he
- 6:38:23Speaker 2: scarcely knew his way, or what unwieldy weight he threw
- 6:38:27Speaker 2: his knocking. Knees are bent beneath the load, and shivering
- 6:38:31Speaker 2: cold congeals his vital blood. The stone drops from his arms, and,
- 6:38:36Speaker 2: falling short for want of vigor, mocks his vain effort.
- 6:38:41Speaker 2: And as when a heavy sleep has closed the sight,
- 6:38:45Speaker 2: the sickly fancied labors in the night, we seem to run,
- 6:38:49Speaker 2: and destitute of force, our sinking limbs forsake us in
- 6:38:52Speaker 2: the course. In vain we heave for breath, in vain
- 6:38:56Speaker 2: we cry. The nerves embrace their usual deny, and on
- 6:39:01Speaker 2: the tongue the faltering accents die. So turnus fared, whatever means,
- 6:39:07Speaker 2: He tried all force of arms and points of art,
- 6:39:10Speaker 2: employed the fury flew athwart, and made the endeavor void.
- 6:39:15Speaker 2: A thousand various thoughts, his soul confound, he started about,
- 6:39:20Speaker 2: nor aid nor issue, found his own men stopped to pass,
- 6:39:25Speaker 2: and his own wall surround. Once more, He pauses and
- 6:39:28Speaker 2: looks out again, and seeks the goddess charioteer. In vain, trembling,
- 6:39:33Speaker 2: he views the thundering chief advance and brandishing aloft the
- 6:39:38Speaker 2: deadly lance. Amazed, he cowers beneath the conquering foe, forgets
- 6:39:43Speaker 2: to ward and waits the coming blow. Astonished, While he
- 6:39:47Speaker 2: stands and fixed with fear aimed at his shield, he
- 6:39:50Speaker 2: sees the impending spear. The hero measured first with narrow
- 6:39:55Speaker 2: view the destined mark, and rising as he threw with
- 6:39:59Speaker 2: its full swing, the fatal weapon flew not with less rage.
- 6:40:04Speaker 2: The rattling thunder falls, or stones from battering engines break
- 6:40:08Speaker 2: the walls, swift as a whirlwind from an arm so
- 6:40:13Speaker 2: strong the lance drove on and bore the death along.
- 6:40:18Speaker 2: Not could his sevenfold shield the prince a veil, nor
- 6:40:21Speaker 2: aught beneath his arms the coat of mail. It pierced
- 6:40:24Speaker 2: through all, and with a grisly wound, transfix'd his thigh,
- 6:40:29Speaker 2: and doubled him to ground. With groans, the latins rend
- 6:40:33Speaker 2: the vaulted sky woods, hills and valleys. To the voice reply,
- 6:40:39Speaker 2: Now low on earth, the lofty chief is laid, and
- 6:40:42Speaker 2: with eyes cast upward, and with arms displayed and recreant.
- 6:40:47Speaker 2: Thus to the proud victor prayed, I know my death deserv'd,
- 6:40:51Speaker 2: nor hope to live. Use what the gods and thy
- 6:40:55Speaker 2: good fortune give. Yet think O, think, if mercy may
- 6:40:59Speaker 2: be shown. Thou hadst father once and hast a son,
- 6:41:02Speaker 2: pity my sire now sinking to the grave, and for
- 6:41:06Speaker 2: Anchisi's sake, Old DNA's safe or if thy vowed revenge,
- 6:41:11Speaker 2: pursue my death, Give to my friends my body void
- 6:41:14Speaker 2: of breath. The Latian chiefs have seen me beg my life.
- 6:41:19Speaker 2: Thine is the conquest, Thine the royal wife against the
- 6:41:22Speaker 2: yielded man tis mean, ignoble strife and deep suspense. The
- 6:41:28Speaker 2: Trojans seemed to stand and just prepared to strike. Repressed
- 6:41:33Speaker 2: his hand. He rolled his eyes, and every moment felt
- 6:41:37Speaker 2: his manly soul with more compassion melt. When casting down
- 6:41:42Speaker 2: a casual glance, he spied the golden belt that glittered
- 6:41:45Speaker 2: on his side. Fatal spoils which haughty turnus tore from
- 6:41:49Speaker 2: dying palace and in triumph war then roused anew to wrath.
- 6:41:55Speaker 2: He loudly cries. Flames while he spoke came flashing from
- 6:42:00Speaker 2: his eyes. Traitor, dost thou, dost thou to grace, pretend
- 6:42:04Speaker 2: clad as thou art in trophies of my friend to
- 6:42:07Speaker 2: his sad soul, a grateful offering, go to his palace.
- 6:42:11Speaker 2: Palace gives this deadly blow. He raised his arm aloft
- 6:42:16Speaker 2: and at the word deep in his bosom, drove the
- 6:42:19Speaker 2: shining sword. The streaming blood disdained his arms around, and
- 6:42:25Speaker 2: the disdainful soul came rushing through the wound. End of
- 6:42:29Speaker 2: Book twelve.