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  Speaker 1: Book one, Part one of the Aeneid. This is a
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  Speaker 1: The Eneid by Publius Virgilius Morrow, translated by John Dryden,
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  Speaker 1: Book one, A Fateful Haven, Part one Alms and the
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  Speaker 1: man I seeing who forced by fate and haughty Juno's
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  Speaker 1: unrelenting hate expelled and exiled left the Trojan shore. Long
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  Speaker 1: labors both by sea and land he bore and in
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  Speaker 1: the doubtful war, before he won the Latian realm and
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  Speaker 1: built the destined town. His banished gods restored to rights
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  Speaker 1: divine and settled sure succession in his line. From whence
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  Speaker 1: the race of alban fathers come and the long glories
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  Speaker 1: of majestic rome O muse the causes and the crimes relate?
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  Speaker 1: What goddess was provoked? And whence her hate for what
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  Speaker 1: offense the Queen of Heaven began to persecute? So brave
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  Speaker 1: so just a man involv'd his anxious life in endless cares,
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  Speaker 1: exposed to once and hurried into wars. Can heavenly mind
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  Speaker 1: such high resentment? Show or exercise their spite in human
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  Speaker 1: woe against the Tiber's mouth. But far away, an ancient
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  Speaker 1: town was seated on the sea, a Tyrian colony. The
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  Speaker 1: people made stout for the war and studious of their trade. Carthage,
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  Speaker 1: the name beloved by you know, more than her own
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  Speaker 1: Argos or the Samian shore. Here stood her chariot. Here,
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  Speaker 1: if heaven were kind, the seat of awful empire she design'd.
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  Speaker 1: Yet she had heard an ancient rumor fly, long sighted
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  Speaker 1: by the people of the sky, that times to come
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  Speaker 1: should see the Trojan race, her Carthage ruin and her
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  Speaker 1: towers deface. Nor thus confined the yoke of sovereign sway
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  Speaker 1: should on the necks of all the nations lay. She
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  Speaker 1: pondered this, and feared it was in fate, nor could
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  Speaker 1: forget the war she waged of late for conquering Greece
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  Speaker 1: against the Trojan state. Besides long, causes working in her mind,
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  Speaker 1: and secret seeds of envy lay behind deep graven in
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  Speaker 1: her heart. The doom remained of partial Paris, and her
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  Speaker 1: form disdain'd. The grace bestowed on ravished ganymed Electra as
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  Speaker 1: glories and her injured bed each was a cause alone,
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  Speaker 1: and all combined to kindle vengeance in her haughty mind.
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  Speaker 1: For this far distant from the Latian coast, she drove
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  Speaker 1: the remnants of the Trojan host, and seven long years
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  Speaker 1: the unhappy wandering train were tossed by storms and scattered
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  Speaker 1: through the main. Such time such toil required the Roman name,
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  Speaker 1: such length of labor, for so vast a frame, now scarce.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojan fleet, with sails and oars, had left behind
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  Speaker 1: the fair Sicilian shores, entering with cheerful shouts the watry rain,
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  Speaker 1: and plowing frothy furrows in the main. When laboring still
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  Speaker 1: with endless discontent, the Queen of Heaven did thus her
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  Speaker 1: fury vent. Then am I vanquished? Must I yield? Said she?
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  Speaker 1: And must the Trojans reign in Italy? So fate will
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  Speaker 1: have it, and Jove adds his force. Nor can my
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  Speaker 1: power divert their happy course. Could angry Pallace, with revengeful
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  Speaker 1: spleen the Grecian navy burn and drown the men She
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  Speaker 1: for the fault of one offending foe. The bolts of
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  Speaker 1: Jove himself presum'd to throw with whirlwinds from beneath she
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  Speaker 1: toss'd the ship and bare expose the bosom of the deep. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as an eagle gripes the trembling game, the wretch, yet
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  Speaker 1: hissing with her father's flame, she strongly seiz'd, and with
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  Speaker 1: a burning wound, transfix'd and naked on a rock she bound.
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  Speaker 1: But I, who walk in awful state above the majesty
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  Speaker 1: of Heav'n, the sister wife of Jove. For length of
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  Speaker 1: years my fruitless force employ against the thin reg mains
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  Speaker 1: of ruined Troy. What nations, now to Juno's power, will
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  Speaker 1: prey or offerings on my slighted altars. Lay Thus raged
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  Speaker 1: the goddess, and with fury fraught the restless regions of
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  Speaker 1: the storms she sought. Where in a spacious cave of
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  Speaker 1: living stone, the tyrant Eolus, from his airy throne, with
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  Speaker 1: power imperial curbs the struggling winds and sounding tempests in
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  Speaker 1: dark prisons, binds this way, and that the impatient captives
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  Speaker 1: tend and, pressing for redise the mountains rend high in
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  Speaker 1: his hall, The undaunted monarch stands and shakes his scepter,
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  Speaker 1: and their rage commands, which did he not, their unresisted
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  Speaker 1: sway would sweep the world before them in their way.
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  Speaker 1: Earth ere and seas through empty space would roll, and
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  Speaker 1: heav'n would fly before the driving soul. In fear of this,
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  Speaker 1: the father of the gods confined their fury to those
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  Speaker 1: dark abodes and lock'd them safe within, oppress'd with mountain loads,
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  Speaker 1: impos'd a king with arbitrary sway to loose their fetters
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  Speaker 1: or their force allay to whom the suppliant queen her
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  Speaker 1: prayers address'd, and thus the tenor of her suit expres'd
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  Speaker 1: o eolus. For to thee the king of heaven, the
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  Speaker 1: power of tempests and of winds has given thy force alone.
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  Speaker 1: Their fury can restrain and smooth the waves, or swell
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  Speaker 1: the troubled main. A race of wandering slaves abhorred by
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  Speaker 1: me with prosperous passage, cut the Tuscan sea to fruitful
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  Speaker 1: itterly their course they steer, and for their vanquish'd gods
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  Speaker 1: design new temples there, raise all thy winds with night,
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  Speaker 1: involve the skies, sink or disperse my fatal enemies. Twice seven,
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  Speaker 1: the charming daughters of the main around my person, wait
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  Speaker 1: and bear my train, succeed my wish, and second my
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  Speaker 1: design the fairest day a payer shall be thine and
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  Speaker 1: make thee father of a happy line.
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  Speaker 2: To this.
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  Speaker 1: The God tis yours, o Queen, to will the work
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  Speaker 1: which duty binds me to fulfill. These airy kingdoms and
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  Speaker 1: this wide command are all the presence of your bounteous hand.
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  Speaker 1: Yours is my sovereign's grace. And as your guest, I
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  Speaker 1: sit with gods at their celestial feast, raise tempests at
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  Speaker 1: your pleasure or subdue dispose of empire which I hold
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  Speaker 1: from He said, and hurled against the mountainside his quivering spear,
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  Speaker 1: and all the God applied. The raging winds rushed through
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  Speaker 1: the hollow wound and dance aloft in air, skim along
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  Speaker 1: the ground, then settling on the sea. The surges sweep rays,
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  Speaker 1: liquid mountains and disclose the deep south, east and west
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  Speaker 1: with mixed confusion, roar and roll the foaming billows to
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  Speaker 1: the shore. The cables crack, the sailors, fearful cries ascend,
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  Speaker 1: and sable night involves the skies, and Heaven itself is
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  Speaker 1: ravished from their eyes. Loud peals of thunder from the
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  Speaker 1: poles ensue, Then flashing fires the transient light renew the
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  Speaker 1: face of things, a frightful image bears, and present death
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  Speaker 1: in various forms appears struck with unusual fright. The Trojan,
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  Speaker 1: with lifted hands and eyes invokes relief, and thrice and
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  Speaker 1: four times happy those he cried that under Ilian walls
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  Speaker 1: before their parents died, tidy these, bravest of the Grecian train.
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  Speaker 1: Why could not I, by that strong arm be slain
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  Speaker 1: and lie by noble hector on the plain or great
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  Speaker 1: sarpedon in those bloody fields where Simois rolls the bodies
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  Speaker 1: and the shields of heroes, whose dismembered hands yet bear
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  Speaker 1: the dart aloft and clench the pointed spear. Thus, while
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  Speaker 1: the pious prints his fate bewails fierce boreas drove against
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  Speaker 1: his flying sails and rent the sheets. The raging billows
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  Speaker 1: rise and mount the tossing vessels to the skies. Nor
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  Speaker 1: can the shivering oars sustain the blow. The galley gives
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  Speaker 1: her side and turns her prow while those astern descending
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  Speaker 1: from the steep through gaping waves behold the boiling deep.
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  Speaker 1: Three ships were harried by the southern blast, and on
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  Speaker 1: the secret shelves with fury cast those hidden rocks. The
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  Speaker 1: Arsonian sailors knew they called them altars when they rose
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  Speaker 1: in view and showed their spacious backs above the flood.
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  Speaker 1: Three more fierce Eurus, in his angry mood, dashed on
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  Speaker 1: the shallows of the moving sand, and in mid ocean
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  Speaker 1: left the maud a land or on teeses bark that
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  Speaker 1: bore the Lycian crew horrid sight. Even in the hero's view,
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  Speaker 1: from stem to stern by waves was overborne. The trembling pilot,
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  Speaker 1: from his rudder torn was headlong, hurled thrice round. The
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  Speaker 1: ship was tossed, then bulged at once, and in the
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  Speaker 1: deep was lost. And here and there above the waves
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  Speaker 1: were seen arms, pictures, precious goods, and floating men. The
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  Speaker 1: stoutest vessel to the storm gave way and sucked through
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  Speaker 1: loosened planks the rushing sea. Illinius was her chief aliths
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  Speaker 1: old Akart's faithful abbess, Young and bold endured not less
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  Speaker 1: their ships, with gaping seams, admit the deluge of the
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  Speaker 1: barney streams. Meantime, Imperial Neptune heard the sound of raging
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  Speaker 1: billows breaking on the ground. Displeased and fearing for his
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  Speaker 1: watery reign, he reared his awful head above the main,
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  Speaker 1: serene in majesty, then rolled his eyes around the space
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  Speaker 1: of Earth and seas and skies. He saw the Trojan
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  Speaker 1: fleet dispersed, distressed by stormy winds and wintry heaven. Oppressed
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  Speaker 1: full well the God his sisters envy knew, and what
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  Speaker 1: her aims and what her arts pursue. He summoned Eurus
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  Speaker 1: and the Western Blast, and first an angry glance on
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  Speaker 1: both he cast then thus rebuked audacious winds. From whence
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  Speaker 1: this bold attempt, this rebel insolence, is it for you
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  Speaker 1: to ravage seas and land, unauthoriz'd by my supreme command
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  Speaker 1: to raise such mountains on the troubled main, whom I
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  Speaker 1: but first is fit the billows to restrain. And then
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  Speaker 1: you shall be taught obedience to my reign. Hence to
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  Speaker 1: your lord, my royal mandate bear the realms of ocean
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  Speaker 1: and the fields of air are mine, not his, by
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  Speaker 1: fatal lot, to me the liquid empire fell and trident
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  Speaker 1: of the sea. His power to hollow caverns is confined. There.
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  Speaker 1: Let him reign the jailer of the wind, with hoarse
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  Speaker 1: commands his breathing subjects called and boast and bluster in
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  Speaker 1: his empty hall, he spoke, And while he spoke, he
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  Speaker 1: smooth'd the sea, dispell'd the darkness, and restored the day.
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  Speaker 1: Chymothwy Triton and the sea green train of beauteous nymphs.
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  Speaker 1: The daughters of the main clear from the rocks the
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  Speaker 1: vessels with their hands. The God himself, with ready trident,
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  Speaker 1: stands and opes the deep and spreads the moving sands.
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  Speaker 1: Then heaves them off the shoals, where'er he guides his
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  Speaker 1: finny courses, and in triumph rides the waves unruffle, and
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  Speaker 1: the sea subsides. As when in tumults rise the ignoble
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  Speaker 1: crowd mad are their notions, and their tongues are loud,
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  Speaker 1: and stones and brands in rattling volleys fly, and all
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  Speaker 1: the rustic arms that fury can supply. If then some
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  Speaker 1: grave and pious man appear, they hush their noise and
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  Speaker 1: lend a listening. Here he soothes with sober words their
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  Speaker 1: angry mood, and quenches their innate desire of blood. So
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  Speaker 1: when the father of the flood appears and o'er the
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  Speaker 1: seas his sovereign trident rears, their fury falls. He skims
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  Speaker 1: the liquid plains high on his chariot, and with loosened rains,
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  Speaker 1: majestic moves along, and awful peace maintains. The weary Trojans
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  Speaker 1: ply their shatter'd oars to nearest land and make the
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  Speaker 1: Libyan shores. Within a long recess, there lies a bay.
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  Speaker 1: An island shades it from the rolling sea and forms
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  Speaker 1: a port secure for ships to ride. Broke by the
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  Speaker 1: jutting land on either side in double streams, the briny
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  Speaker 1: waters glide betwixt two rows of rocks. A Sylvan scene
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  Speaker 1: appears above, and groves for ever green. A grotti is
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  Speaker 1: formed beneath, with mossy seats to rest the nereids and
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  Speaker 1: exclude the heats. Down through the crannies of the living walls,
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  Speaker 1: the crystal streams descend in murmuring falls. No haulsers need
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  Speaker 1: to bind the vessels here, nor bearded anchors, for no
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  Speaker 1: storms they fear. Seven ships within this happy harbor meet
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  Speaker 1: the thin remainders of the scattered fleet. The Trojans, worn
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  Speaker 1: with toils and spent with woes, leap on the welcome
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  Speaker 1: land and seek their wish to repose. First good acates
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  Speaker 1: with repeated strokes of clashing flints. Their hidden fire provokes
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  Speaker 1: short flame succeeds a bed of withered leaves. The dying sparkles,
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  Speaker 1: in their fall receives caught into life in fiery fumes.
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  Speaker 1: They rise, and, fed with stronger food, invade the skies.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojans, dropping wet or stand round the cheerful blaze,
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  Speaker 1: or lie al on the ground. Some dry their corn
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  Speaker 1: infected with the brine, then grind with marbles and prepare
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  Speaker 1: to dine. Eneus climbs the mountain's airy brow and takes
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  Speaker 1: a prospect of the seas below. If Capi is thence
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  Speaker 1: or Antheus, he could spy or see the streamers of
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  Speaker 1: Caicus fly. No vessels were in view, but on the
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  Speaker 1: plain three beamy stags command a lordly train of branching heads.
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  Speaker 1: The more ignoble throng attend their stately steps and slowly
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  Speaker 1: graze along. He stood, and while secure they fed below.
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  Speaker 1: He took the quiver and the trusty bow a Cartes
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  Speaker 1: used to bear the leaders. First he laid along, and
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  Speaker 1: then the vulgar pierced nor seized his arrows till the
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  Speaker 1: shady plains. Seven mighty bodies, with their blood disdain for
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  Speaker 1: the seven ships, he made an equal share, and to
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  Speaker 1: the portrait turned triumphant from the war. The jars of
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  Speaker 1: generous wine Acestes's gift. When his Trinacrian shores the navy left,
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  Speaker 1: he set a brooch, and for the feast prepared in
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  Speaker 1: equal portions, with the venison shared. Thus, while he dealt
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  Speaker 1: it round the pious chief with cheerful words, allayed the
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  Speaker 1: common grief, and youaw and conquer. Jove will soon dispose
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  Speaker 1: to future good are past in present woes with me
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  Speaker 1: the rocks of skiller. You have tried the inhuman cyclops
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  Speaker 1: and his den defied. What greater ills hereafter can you bear?
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  Speaker 1: Resume your courage, and dismiss your care. An hour will
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  Speaker 1: come with pleasure to relate your sorrow's past as benefits
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  Speaker 1: of fate. Through various hazards and events, we move to
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  Speaker 1: Latium and the realms foredoomed by Jove, called to the
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  Speaker 1: seat the promise of the skies, where Trojan kingdoms once
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  Speaker 1: again may rise. Endure the hardships of your present state, live,
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  Speaker 1: and reserve yourselves for better fate. These words he spoke,
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  Speaker 1: but spoke not from his heart. His outward smiles conceal'd
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  Speaker 1: his inward smart the jolly crew, unmindful of the past,
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  Speaker 1: the quarry share their plenteous dinner haste. Some strip the skin,
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  Speaker 1: some portion out the spoil the limbs, yet trembling in
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  Speaker 1: the cauldron's boil. Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil,
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  Speaker 1: stretch'd on the grassy turf. At ease, they dine, restore
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  Speaker 1: their strength with meat, and cheer their souls with wine.
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  Speaker 1: Their hunger thus appeased. Their care attends the doubtful fortune
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  Speaker 1: of their absent friends, alternate hopes and fears their minds
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  Speaker 1: possess whether to deem them dead or in distress. Above
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  Speaker 1: the rest, Eneus mourns the fate of brave Arontes, and
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  Speaker 1: the uncertain state of Gaias Lycus and of Amicus. The day,
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  Speaker 1: but not their sorrows ended. Thus, when from aloft almighty
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  Speaker 1: Jove surveys earth, air, and shores and navigable seas at
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  Speaker 1: length on Libyan realms, he fixed his eyes whom, pondering
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  Speaker 1: thus on human miseries. When Venus saw she with a
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  Speaker 1: lowly look, not free from tears, her heavenly sire bespoke O,
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  Speaker 1: King of Gods, and men whose awful hand disperses thunder
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  Speaker 1: on the seas and land, disposing all with absolute command.
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  Speaker 1: How could my pious son thy power incense? Or what
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  Speaker 1: alas is vanish'd Troy's offense? Our hope of Italy not
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  Speaker 1: only long lost on various seas by various tempests, fast
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  Speaker 1: but shut from every shore and barred from every coast.
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  Speaker 1: You promis'd once a progeny divine of Romans, rising from
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  Speaker 1: the Trojan line in after times should hold the world
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  Speaker 1: in awe, and to the land and ocean give the law.
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  Speaker 1: How is your doom reversed? Which eased my care? When
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  Speaker 1: Troy was ruined in that cruel war, then fates to
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  Speaker 1: fates I could oppose. But now, when fortune still pursues
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  Speaker 1: her former blow, what can I hope? What worse can
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  Speaker 1: still succeed? What end of labors has your will decreed?
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  Speaker 1: Antenor from the midst of Grecian hosts, could pass secure
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  Speaker 1: and pierce the Illyrian coasts, where, rolling down the steep
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  Speaker 1: Timavus raves and through nine channels disembogues his way. At
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  Speaker 1: length he founded Padua's Happy Seat and gave his Trojans
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  Speaker 1: a secure retreat There fixed their arms, and there renewed
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  Speaker 1: their name, and there in quiet rules and crowned with fame.
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  Speaker 1: But we descended from your sacred line, entitled to your
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  Speaker 1: heaven and rights divine, are banished earth, And for the
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  Speaker 1: wrath of a one removed from Latium and the promised throne.
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  Speaker 1: Are these our scepters. These are due rewards. And is
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  Speaker 1: it thus that Jove his plighted faith regards to whom
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  Speaker 1: the father of the immortal race, smiling with that serene,
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  Speaker 1: indulgent face with which he drives the clouds and clears
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  Speaker 1: the skies, first gave a holy kiss. Then thus replies, daughter,
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  Speaker 1: dismiss thy fears to thy desire. The fates of thine
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  Speaker 1: are fixed and stand entire. Thou shalt behold thy wished
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  Speaker 1: lavinian walls, and ripe for heaven. When fate Eneus calls,
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  Speaker 1: then shalt thou bear him up sublime to me. No
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  Speaker 1: councils have reversed my firm decree, And lest new fears
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  Speaker 1: disturb thy happy state, know I have searched the mystic
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  Speaker 1: rolls of fate, thy son. Nor is the appointed season
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  Speaker 1: far in Italy shall wage successful war, shall tame fierce
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  Speaker 1: nations in the bloody field, and sovereign laws impose, and
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  Speaker 1: cities build, till after every foe subdued the sun thrice
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  Speaker 1: through the signs, his annual race shall run. This is
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  Speaker 1: his time. Prefix'd Ascanius, then now called Ulus, shall begin
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  Speaker 1: his reign he thirty rolling years. The crown shall wear.
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  Speaker 1: Then from Levinium shall the seat transfer, and with hard
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  Speaker 1: labor Alba longer build the throne. With his succession shall
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  Speaker 1: be fill'd three hundred circuits.
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  Speaker 2: More.
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  Speaker 1: Then shall be seen Illy ather Fair, a priestess and queen,
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  Speaker 1: who full of Mars in time, with kindly throes, shall
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  Speaker 1: at a birth two goodly boys disclose the royal babes,
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  Speaker 1: a tawny wolf shall drain. Then Romulus, his grandsire's throne,
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  Speaker 1: shall gain of martial towers. The founder shall become the people.
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  Speaker 1: Romans call the city Rome to them. No bounds of
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  Speaker 1: empire I sign, nor term of years to their immortal line.
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  Speaker 1: Even haughty Juno, who with endless broils Earth sees and
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  Speaker 1: heaven and Jove himself turmoils at length aton'd her friendly
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  Speaker 1: power shall join to cherish and advance the Trojan life.
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  Speaker 1: The subject world shall Roam's dominion, own and prostrate, shall
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  Speaker 1: adore the nation of the gown An age is ripening
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  Speaker 1: in revolving fate. When Troy shall overturn the Grecian state,
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  Speaker 1: and sweet revenge her conquering sons shall call to crush
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  Speaker 1: the people that conspir'd her fall. Then Caesar, from the
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  Speaker 1: Julian stalk shall rise, whose empire ocean and whose fame
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  Speaker 1: the skies alone shall bound. Whom fraught with eastern spoils
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  Speaker 1: are heav'n the just reward of human toils securely shall
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  Speaker 1: repay with rights divine and incense shall ascend before his
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  Speaker 1: sacred shrine. Then dire debate and impious war shall cease,
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  Speaker 1: and the stern age be soften'd into peace. Then banished
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  Speaker 1: faith shall once again return, and vestal fires in hallowed
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  Speaker 1: temples burn, and Remus with Quirinus shall sustain the righteous laws,
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  Speaker 1: and fraud and force restrain. Janus himself before his fain,
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  Speaker 1: shall wait and keep the dreadful issues of his gait
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  Speaker 1: with bolts and iron bars within remains imprisoned fury bound
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  Speaker 1: in brazen chains, high on a trophy raised of useless arms,
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  Speaker 1: he sits and threats the world with vain alarms, he said,
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  Speaker 1: and sent Calinius with command to free the ports and
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  Speaker 1: ope the Punic land to Trojan guests. Lest ignorant of fate,
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  Speaker 1: the queen might force them from her town and state.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Down from the steep of heaven, Callinius flies and cleaves
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  Speaker 1: with all his wings, the yielding skies. Soon on the
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  Speaker 1: Libyan shore descends the god performs his message and displays
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  Speaker 1: his rod. The surly murmurs of the people cease, and
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  Speaker 1: as the fates requir'd, they give the peace. The Queen
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  Speaker 1: herself suspends the rigid laws the Trojans pities, and protects
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  Speaker 1: their cause. Meantime, in shades of night, he neus lies
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  Speaker 1: care seized his soul and sleep fossokis eyes. But when
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  Speaker 1: the sun restored the cheerful day, he rose the coast
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  Speaker 1: and country to survey, anxious and eager to discover more.
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  Speaker 1: It look'd a wild, uncultivated shore, but whether human kind
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  Speaker 1: or beasts alone possessed the new found region was unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Beneath a ledge of rocks his fleet, he hides tall
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: trees surround the mountain's shady sides. The bending brow above
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  Speaker 1: a safe retreat provides, armed with two pointed darts. He
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: leaves his friends and true cartes on his steps, attends
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  Speaker 1: lo in the deep recesses of the wood. Before his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: his goddess Mother stood a huntress in her habit and
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  Speaker 1: her mien, her dress a maid, her air confessed a queen.
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  Speaker 1: There were her knees and knots, her garments bind. Loose
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  Speaker 1: was her hair, and wanton'd in the wind. Her hand
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  Speaker 1: sustained a bow, her quiver hung behind. She seem'd a
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  Speaker 1: virgin of the Spartan blood. With such array her palacey
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  Speaker 1: bestrode her Thracian coarser and outstripp'd the rapid flood O
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  Speaker 1: strangers have you lately seen, she said, one of my sisters,
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  Speaker 1: like my self, arrayed, who cross'd the lawn or in
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  Speaker 1: the forest, strayed A painted quiver at her back, she
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  Speaker 1: bore varied with spots a Lynx's high she wore, and
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  Speaker 1: at full cry, pursued the tusky boar. End of Book one,
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  Speaker 1: Part one.
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  Speaker 3: visitlibrivox dot org. Recording by Joseph Earley, The Eneid by
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  Speaker 3: Publius Virgilius Morrow, translated by John Dright, Book one, A
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Fateful Haven, Part two. Thus Venus. Thus her son replied again,
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  Speaker 3: none of your sisters have we seen or heard, O virgin,
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  Speaker 3: or what'er the name you bear? Above that style? O
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  Speaker 3: more than mortal? Fair your voice and mean celestial birth
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  Speaker 3: betray if as you seem the daughter of the day,
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  Speaker 3: or one at least of chaste Diana's train. Let not
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  Speaker 3: an humble suppliants sue in vain, but tell a stranger
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  Speaker 3: long in tempest, toss's what earth we tread? And who
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: commands the coast? Then on your name shall wretched mortals
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: call and offer'd victims at your altars fall. I dare not,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: she replied, assume the name of goddess or celestial honors
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: claim for Tyreean virgins bows and quivers, bear and purple
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: buskin o'er their ankles wear no gentle youth in Libyan lands.
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  Speaker 3: You are a people rude in peace and rough in war.
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  Speaker 3: The rising city, which from far you see, is Carthage
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: and a Tyrian colony. Phoenician Dido rules the growing state,
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  Speaker 3: who fled from tire to shun her brother's hate. Great
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  Speaker 3: were her wrongs, her story full of fate, which I
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: will sum in short. Sychaeus, known for wealth and brother
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to the punic throne, possess'd fair Dido's bed, and either
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: heart at once was wounded with an equal dart. Her
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: father gave her yet a spotless maid, Pygmalion. Then the
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Tyrian scepter sway'd one who condemn'd divine and human law.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Then strife ensu'd and cursed gold cause the monarch, blinded
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: by desire of wealth with steel, invades his brother's life
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: by stealth before the sacred altar made him bleed, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: long from her conceal'd the cruel deed, some tale, some
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: new pretense, he daily coin'd to soothe his sister and
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: delude her mind. At last, in dead of night, the
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: ghost appears of her unhappy lord, the specter, star'd and
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: with erected eyes, his bloody bosom bears the cruel altars
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: and his fate he tells, and the dire secret of
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: his house reveals. Then warns the widow, with her household gods,
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  Speaker 3: to seek a refuge in remote abodes. Last to support
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  Speaker 3: her in so long a way, he shows her where
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  Speaker 3: his hidden treasure lay admonish'd thus and seiz'd with mortal fright.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: The queen provides companions of her flight. They meet, and
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: all combine to leave the state. Who hate the tyrant,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: or who fear his hate, they seize a fleet, which
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  Speaker 3: ready rigg'd they find, nor is Pygmalion's treasure left behind.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: The vessel's heavy laden put to sea with prosp'rous winds.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: A woman leads the way. I know not if by
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: stress of whether driv'n or was their fatal course dispos'd
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: by heav'n. At last they landed, where from far your
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: eyes may view the turrets of New Carthage rise. There
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: bought a space of ground, which Brysa call'd from the
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: bull's hide, they first inclos'd wal'd. But whence are you?
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  Speaker 3: What country claims your birth? What seek you strangers on
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: our libyan earth, to whom with sorrow streaming from his
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: eyes and deeply sighing, Thus, her son replies, could you
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  Speaker 3: with patience hear or I relate, o nymph the tedious
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  Speaker 3: annals of our faith through such a train of woes.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: If I should run the day would sooner than the
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: tale be done from ancient Troy. By force expell'd we came,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: if you by chance have heard the Trojan name, on
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: various seas, by various tempests. Toss'd at length, we landed
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  Speaker 3: on your Libyan coast. But good Annaeus, I am call'd
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: a name, while fortune favor'd not unknown to fame my household,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: God's companions of my woes, with pious care, I rescu'd
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: from our foes too fruitful Italy, my course was bent,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: and from the king of Heav'n is my descent. With
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: twice ten sails, I cross'd the Phrygian sea fate, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: my mother Goddess led my way scarce seven the thin
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: remainders of my fate. From storms preserv'd within your harbor,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: meet my self, distress'd an exile and unknown, debarred from
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Europe and from Asia throne in Libyan deserts wander thus alone.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: His tender parent could no longer bear, but interposing sought
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: to soothe his care. Whoe'er you are not unbelov'd by Heav'n,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: since on our friendly shore your ships are driv'n. Have
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: courage to the gods permit the rest, and to the
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Queen expose your just request. Now take this earnest of
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: success for more. Your scatter'd fleet is join'd upon the shore.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: The winds are chang'd your friends from danger free, or
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I renounce my skill. In augury, twelve swans behold in
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: beauteous order, move and stoop with closing pinions from above,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: whom late the bird of Jove had driv'n along, And
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: though the clouds pursu'd at the scattering throng. Now all
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: united in a goodly team, they skim the ground and
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: seek the quiet stream. As they, with joy returning, clap
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: their wings and ride the circuit of the skies in rings.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Not otherwise your ships and ev'ry friend already hold the port,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: or with swift sails the ear send. No more advice
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: is needful, but pursue the path before you and the
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: town in view. Thus, having said, she turn'd and made
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: appear her neck refulgent and dishevel'd hair, which flowing from
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: her shoulders, reach'd the ground and widely spread ambrosial scents
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: around in length of train, descends her sweeping gown, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: by her graceful walk, the Queen of Love is known
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: the Prince pursu'd the parting deity with words like these, Ah,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: whither do you fly? Unkind and cruel, to deceive your
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: son in borrow'd shapes and his embrace, to shun never
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to bless my sight, but thus unknown, and still to
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: speak in accents naturr uh against the Goddess. These complaints
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: he made, but took the path, and her commands obey'd.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: They march obscure, for Venus kindly shrouds with mist their
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: persons and involves in clouds that, thus unseen their passage,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: none might stay or force to tell the causes of
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: their way. This part perform'd. The goddess flies sublime to
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: visit Paphos and her native clime, where garlands, ever green
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: and fair with vows, are offer'd, and with solemn prayer
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: a hundred altars in her temple's smoke a thousand bleeding hearts,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: her power in hope. They climb'd the next ascent, and,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: looking down now at a nearer distance, view the town.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: The prince with wonder sees the stately towers which late
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: were huts, and shepherd's homely bowers, the gates and streets,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: and hears from ev'ry part the noise and busy concourse
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: of the mart The toiling tyrians on each other call
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: to ply the labor. Some extend the wall, some build
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: a citadel. The brawny throng or dig or push unwieldy
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: stones along. Some for their dwellings choose a spot of ground,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: which first design'd with ditches they surround. Some laws ordain,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: and some attend the choice of holy senates and elect
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: by voice. Here some design a mole, while others there
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: lay deep foundations for a theater. From marble quarries, mighty
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: columns hew for ornaments of scene and future view. Such
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: is their toil, and such their busy panes as exercise
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the bees in flow'ry plains, when winter past and summer
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: scarce begun, invites them forth to labor in the sun.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Some lead their youth of road, while some condens'd their
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: liquid store, and some in cells dispense. Some at the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: gates stand ready to receive the golden burden, and their
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: friends relieve all with united force combin'd to drive the
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: lazy drones from the laborious hive. With envy stung, they
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: view each other's deeds, the fragrant work with diligence proceeds
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: thrice happy you, whose walls already rise when they has said,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: and view'd with lifted eyes their lofty towers. Then, entering
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: at the gate, conceal'd in clouds prodigious to relate, he
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: mix'd unmark'd among the busy throng borne by the tide,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: and pass'd unseen along full In the center of the
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: town there stood thick set with trees a venerable wood.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: The Tyrians landed near this hole ground, and digging here
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: a prosperous omen found from under earth a courser's head.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: They drew their growth and fortune to foresee this fated sign.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Their foundress, Juno, gave of a soil fruitful and a
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: people brave Sidonian Dido. Here with solemn state did Juno's
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  Speaker 3: temple build and consecrate, enrich'd with gift and with a
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: golden shrine. But more, the goddess made the place divine.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: On brazen steps, the marvel threshold rose and brazen plaits,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: the cedar beams and cloak. The rafters are with brazen
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: coverings crown'd. The lofty doors on brazen hinges sound. When
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: first aneas this place beheld reviv'd his courage and his
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: fear expell'd. For while expecting there the queen, he rais'd
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: his wondering eyes, and round the temple gaz'd admir'd the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: fortune of the rising town, the striving artists and their
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  Speaker 3: arts renown'd. He saw in order painted on the wall.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Whatever did unhappy Troy befall the wars that fame around
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: the world had blown all to the life and ev'ry
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: leader known there Agamemnon Priam. Here he spies and fierce Achilles,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: who both kings devise he stopp'd, and weeping, said O
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: friend ev'n. Here the monuments of Trojan woes appear'd our
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: known disaster fill even foreign lands. See here where old
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: unhappy Priam stands. Even the mute walls relate the warrior's
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: fame and Trojan griefs. The Tyrians pity claim. He said,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: his tears are ready passage find devouring what he saw
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: so well design'd and with an empty picture fed his mind.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: For there he saw the fainting Grecians yield, and hear
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: the trembling Trojans quit the field, pursu'd by fierce Achilles
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: through the plains on his high chariot, driving o'er the
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: slain the tents of Rhesus, next his grief renew by
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: their white sails, betray'd to knightly view and wakeful Diomede,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: whose cruel sword the sentry slew o'er spar'd their slumbering lord.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Then took the fiery steeds. Ere yet the food of
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Troy they taste or drink the Xanthian flood. Elsewhere he
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: saw where Troilius defi'd achilles and unequal combat tried. Then
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: where boy disarm'd with lucs and reins, was by his horses,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: hurri'd o'er the plains hung by the neck and hair,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: and dragg'd around with hospital spear, Yet sticking in his
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: warm with tracts of blood, inscrib'd the dusty ground. Meantime,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: the Trojan dames, oppress'd with woe to pallace fain in
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: long procession, go in hopes to reconcile their heav'n. They fall,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: they weep, they beat their breasts, they rend their hair.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Then rich embroider'd vests for presents bear, but the stern
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: goddess stands unmov'd with prayer thrice round the Trojan walls.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Achilles drew the corpse of Hecta, whom in fight he slew.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Here priam sues and therefore sums of gold. The lifeless
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: body of his son is soul, so sad, an object,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: and so well express'd. Drew sighs and groans from the
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: griev'd hero's breast to see the figure of his lifeless
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: friend and his old sire. His helpless hand extend himself.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: He saw among the Grecian train mix'd in the bloody
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: battle on the plain, and swarthy Memnon in his arms.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: He knew his pompous ensigns and his Indian crew Penthsilia.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: There with haughty grace leads to the wars an Imausonian
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: race in their right hands. Appointed dart, they wheel'd. The
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: left forward sustains the lunar shield athwart her breast, a
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: golden belt she throws amid the press alone provokes a
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: thousand foem, dares her maiden arms to manly force oppose. Thus,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: while the Trojan prince employs his eyes fix'd on the
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: walls with wonder and surprise, the beauteous Daido, with a
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: numerous rain and pop of gods descends the sacred fane,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: such are eurotas banks or Scynthus height Diana seems, and
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: so she charms the sight. When in the dance, the
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: graceful goddess leads the choir of nymphs and o'er tops
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: their heads. Known by her quiver and her lofty name,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: she walks majestic, and she looks their queen. Latona sees
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: her shine above the rest and feeds with secret joy
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: her silent breast such Dido was with such becoming state.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Amidst the crowd, she walks serenely, great their labor to
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: her future sways. She speeds and passing with a gracious glance, proceeds,
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: then mounts the throne high place'd before the shrine in
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: crowds around the swarming people joy. She takes petitions and
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: dispenses laws. Hears and determines every private cause, their tasks
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: in equal portions, he divides, and where unequal, thereby Lot
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: decides another way. By chance, Aaeus bends his eyes and
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: unexpected sees his friend Antheus suggests disgrave Cloanthus strong, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: at their backs a mighty trojan Throng who late the
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: tempest on the billows, toss'd and widely scatter'd on another coast.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: The prince, unseen, surpris'd with wonder, stands and longs with
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: joy'ful haste to join their hands, But doubtful of the
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: wish't event he stays, and from the howl cloud his
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: friends survey impatient till they told their present state, and
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: where they left their ships, in, what their fail why
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: they came, and what was their request for These were
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: sent commission and by the rest to sue for leave
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: to land my sickly men and gain admission to the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: gracious Queen. Entering with cries, they fill'd the holy fane,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: And thus with lowly voice, Ilioneus began o Queen, indulg'd
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: by favor of the gods, to found an empire in
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: these new abodes, to build a town with statutes to
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: restrain the wild inhabitants. Beneath thy reign, we wretched trojans,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: toss'd on every shore from sea to see thy clemency,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: implore forbid the fires our shipping to deface, receive them,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: happy fugitives, to grace and spare the remnant of a
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: pious race. We come not with design of wasteful prey
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: to drive the country force the swains away, Nor such
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: our strength, nor such is our desire. The vanquish dare
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: not two such thoughts aspire a land There is Hesperia,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: nam'd of old. The soil is fruitful, and the men
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: are bold, the only Trians held at once by common fame,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: now call'd Italia from the leader's name. To that sweet region.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Was our voyage bent When winds in every warring element
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: disturb'd our course, and far from sight of land, cast
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: our torn vessels on the moving sand. The sea came
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: on the south with mighty roar, dispers'd and dash'd the
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: rest upon the rocky shore. These few you see, escap'd
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: the storm and fear unless you interpose a shipwreck here?
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: What men, what monsters? What in human race? What laws?
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: What barbarous customs of the place? Shot up in a
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: desert's shore to drowning men and drive us to the
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: cruel seas again? If our our hard fortune, no compassion draws,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: nor hospitable rights nor human laws, the gods are just
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: and will revenge our cause. Annaeus was our prince, A
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: just a lord or nobler warrior, never drew a sword
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: observant of the right religious of his word. If yet
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: he lives and draws this vital heir, nor we his
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: friends of safety, shall despair, nor you, great Queen. These
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: officers repent, which ye will equal and perhaps augment. We
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: want not cities nor Sicilian coasts. Where King ancestes Trojan
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: lineage boasts. Permit our ships a shelter on your shores,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: refitted from your woods with planks and oars, that if
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: our prince be safe, we may renew our destined course
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: and Italy pursu'd. But if o best of men, the
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: fates ordain that you are swallowed in the Libyan main,
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: and if our young Julius be no more, dismiss our
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: navy from your friendly shore, that we two good ancesties
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: may return and with our friends our common losses mourn.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Thus spokes Illonius. The Trojan crew, with cries and clamors
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: his request renew The modest queen, while with downcast eyes,
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  Speaker 3: pondered the speech, then briefly thus replied, Trojans, dismiss your fears.
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  Speaker 3: My cruel fate and doubts attending an uncet state, force
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  Speaker 3: me to guard my coast from foreign foes who has
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  Speaker 3: not heard the story of your woes, the name and
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  Speaker 3: fortune of your native place, the fame and valor of
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: the Phrygian race. We Tyrians are not so devoid of sense,
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  Speaker 3: nor so remote from phoebus influence. Whether to Latzian shores,
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  Speaker 3: your courses bent or driv'n by tempests from your first intent,
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  Speaker 3: you seek the good acesties government. Your men shall be receiv'd,
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  Speaker 3: your fleet repair'd, and sail with ships to convoy for
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  Speaker 3: your God. Or would you stay and join your friendly
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  Speaker 3: powers to raise and to defend Harian towers. My wealth,
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: my city, and myself are yours, and would to heav'n
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  Speaker 3: the storm you felt would bring on Carthaginian coasts. Your
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: wand'ring king, my people shall, by my command explore the
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  Speaker 3: ports and creeks of every winding shore, and towns and
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  Speaker 3: wilds and shady woods, in quest of so renown'd and
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  Speaker 3: so desir'd a guess rais'd in his mind. The Trojan
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  Speaker 3: hero stood and long'd to break out from his ambient cloud.
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  Speaker 3: Acatis founded and thus urg'd his way from whence O
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  Speaker 3: goddess born this long delay, what more can you desire?
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome, sure, your fleet in safety, and your friends
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  Speaker 3: secur'd one only once in him we saw in vain
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  Speaker 3: oppos'd the storm, and swallow'd in the main o rantes
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  Speaker 3: in his fate. Our Horford paid the rest agrees with
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  Speaker 3: what your mother say'd scarce had he spoken. When the
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: cloud gave way, the mists flew upward and dissolv'd. To day,
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  Speaker 3: the Trojan chief appear'd in open sight or gustin visage,
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  Speaker 3: and serenely bright. His mother goddess, with her hands divine,
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  Speaker 3: had form'd his curling locks, and made his temple shy,
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  Speaker 3: and given his rolling eyes a sparkling grace, and breath'd
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  Speaker 3: a youthful vigor on his face like polish'd ivy puteous
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  Speaker 3: to behold of Parian marble, when encas'd in gold right.
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  Speaker 3: Thus radiant from the circling cloud he broke, and thus
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  Speaker 3: with manly modesty he spoke, He whom you seek am I,
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  Speaker 3: by tempest, toss'd and sav'd from shipwreck on your Libyan coast,
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  Speaker 3: presenting a gracious queen before your throne, a prince that
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  Speaker 3: owes his life to you alone, might fair, majesty. The
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  Speaker 3: refuge and redress of those whom fate pursues and wants
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: oppress you, who our pious offices employ to save the
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: relics of abandoned Troy received the shipwreck'd on your friendly
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: shore with hospitable rites relieved, the poor associate in your
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: town a wandering dream, and strangers in your palace entertain
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: what thanks can wretched fugitives return, who scatter'd through the
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  Speaker 3: world in exile morn. But gods, if gods to goodness
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  Speaker 3: are inclin'd, if acts of mercy touch'd their heav'nly mind,
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  Speaker 3: and more than all their god's, your generous heart, conscious
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  Speaker 3: of worth, requite its own dessert in you. This age
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  Speaker 3: is happy, and this earth, then, parents more than mortal,
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  Speaker 3: gave you birth. While rolling rivers into seas, shall run
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: and round the space of havin the radiant sun, while
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: trees the mountain tops with shades supply your honor, name
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: and praise shall never darth. Whate'er abode my fortune has
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: assign'd your image shall be present in my mind. Thus,
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: having said, he turn'd with pioust haste and joyful, his
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: expecting friends, embraced with his his right hand, Ilioneus was
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: graced Serestus with his left, then to his breast cloanthus
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Thus and the noble Gaius pres'd, and so by turns
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  Speaker 3: descended to the rest. The Tyrian queen stood fix'd upon
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: his face, pleas'd with his motions, ravish'd with his grace,
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  Speaker 3: admir'd his fortunes more admir'd. The man then recollected, stood,
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  Speaker 3: and thus began, What fate o goddess born? What angry
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: powers hath cast you ship rack'd on our barren shores?
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Are you the greater Naeus known to fame? Who from
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: celestial seed your lineage claim the same Anaeus whom fair
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Venus bore to fam'd anchises on the Idaean shore. It
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: calls unto my mind, though then a child, when Tusa
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: came from Salamus exile and sought my father's aid to
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  Speaker 3: be restor'd. My father Bellas then, with fire and sword,
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  Speaker 3: invaded Cypress made the region bear in conquering, finish'd the
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: successful war from him, the Trojan seas, I understood the
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  Speaker 3: Grecian chiefs and your illustrious blood, your foe himself, the
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Dardin'd Valor prais'd, and his own ancestry from Trojans rais'd
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  Speaker 3: enter my noble guest, and you shall find, if not
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  Speaker 3: a costly welcome, yet a kind I for myself, like you,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: have been distress'd till heav'n afforded me this place at rest,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Like you an alien in a land unknown, I learn'd
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: to pity woes so like my own, she said, And
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: to the palace led her guest, then offer'd incense and
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: proclaim'd a feast, nor yet less careful for her absent friends,
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  Speaker 3: twice ten fat oxen to the ship, she said, besides
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  Speaker 3: a hundred boars and a hundred lambs with bleating cries,
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  Speaker 3: attended their molted dead, and jars of generous wine and
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  Speaker 3: spacious bowls, she gives cheer the sailor's drooping souls, now
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  Speaker 3: purple hangings cloth'd the palace walls, and sumptuous feasts are
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  Speaker 3: made in splendid hall, untyingan carpets richly wrought. They died
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  Speaker 3: with loads of massy plate, the sideboards shone, and antique vases,
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  Speaker 3: all of gold embossed, the gold itself inferior to the
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: cost of curious work. Whereon the sides were seen the
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: fights and figures of illustrious men from their first founder
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: to the present queen. The Godnaeus paternal care Julius absence
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: could no longer bear, dispatch'd Acats to the ships in
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: haste to give a glad relation of the past, and
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  Speaker 3: fraught with precious gifts, to bring the boy snatch from
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: the ruins of unhappy Troy a robe of tissue stiff
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: with golden wire, and up a vest. Once Helen's rich
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: attide from Argos by the famed adulteress, brought with golden
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: flowers and winding foliage, wrought her mother letters present when
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  Speaker 3: she came to ruin Troy and set the world on flame.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: The scepter Priam's eldest daughter bore her orient necklace, and
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: the crown she wore of double texture, glorious to behold
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: one order set with gems and one with gold. Instruct'd
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: this the wise Acats goes, and in his diligence his
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: duty show'd. But Venus, anxious for her son's affairs, new counsels,
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: tries and new designs, prepares that Cupid should assume the
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: shape and face of sweet Ascanius, and the spitely grace
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: should bring presents in her nephew's stead and in Eliza's
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  Speaker 3: veins the gentle poison shed for much. She fear'd the
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  Speaker 3: Tyrian's double tongue, and knew the town to Juno's care
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  Speaker 3: belong these thoughts by night her golden slumber's broke, and
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: thus alarm to winged love. She spoke, my son, thy strength,
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  Speaker 3: whose mighty power alone controls the thunderer on his awful throne.
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  Speaker 3: To thee thy much afflict'd mother flies, and on thy
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: succor in thy faith relies. Thou knowest, my son, how
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Jo's revengeful wife, by force and fraud, attempts thy brother's life.
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  Speaker 3: And often hast thou mourn'd with me his pains him died.
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  Speaker 3: O now with blandishment, detains. But I suspect the town
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  Speaker 3: where Juno reigns, for this tis needful to prevent her
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  Speaker 3: art and fire with love the proud Phoenicians here a
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  Speaker 3: love so violent, so strong, so sure as neither age
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  Speaker 3: can change nor art can cure. How this may be
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  Speaker 3: perform'd and outtake my mind. Ascanius, by his father is
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  Speaker 3: design'd to come with presents laden from the port, to
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  Speaker 3: gratify the queen and gain the court. I mean to
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  Speaker 3: plunge the boy in pleasing sleep and ravish in Adalian
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  Speaker 3: bowers to keep, while high cityerra that the sweet deceit
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  Speaker 3: may pass unseen, and none prevent the cheat. Take thou
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  Speaker 3: his form and shape. I beg the grace, but only
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  Speaker 3: for a knight's revolving space thyself a boy assume a
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  Speaker 3: boy's dissembl'd face that when amidst the fervor of the feast,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: the Tyrian hugs and fads thee on her breast, and
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  Speaker 3: with sweet kisses in her arms, constrain'd thou mayst infuse
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  Speaker 3: thy venom in her veins. The god of love obeys
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  Speaker 3: and sets aside his bow and quiver and his plumy pride.
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  Speaker 3: He walks Julius in his mother's sight, and in the
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  Speaker 3: sweet resemblance, takes delight the goddess. Then to young Ascanius
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  Speaker 3: flies and in a pleasing slumber, seals his eye lull
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  Speaker 3: in her lap. Amidst a train of loves, she gently
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  Speaker 3: bears him to her blissful grows. Then, with a wreath
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  Speaker 3: of myrtle, crowns his head and softly lays him in
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  Speaker 3: a flow'ry bed. Cupid meantime assum'd his form and faith,
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  Speaker 3: following Acat's with a shorter pace, and brought the gifts.
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  Speaker 3: The queen already sat amid the trojan lord's in shining state,
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  Speaker 3: high on a golden bed. Her princely guest was next
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  Speaker 3: her side, in order sat the rest. Then canisters with
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  Speaker 3: bread are heap'd on high, the attendant's water for their
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  Speaker 3: hands supply, and having wash'd with silken towels dry, Next
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  Speaker 3: fifty handmaids in long order bore the senses, and with
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  Speaker 3: fumes the gods adore. Then youths and virgins twice as
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  Speaker 3: many join'd to place the dishes and to serve the wine.
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  Speaker 3: The Tyrenean train admitted to the feast approach, and on
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  Speaker 3: the painted couch's rest all on the Trojan's gifts with
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  Speaker 3: wonder gaze, but view the beauteous boy with more amaze,
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  Speaker 3: his rosy color'd cheeks, his radiant eyes, his motions, voice
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  Speaker 3: and shape, and all the God's disguise, nor pass unprais'd
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  Speaker 3: the vest and veil divine, which wandering foliage, in which
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  Speaker 3: flowers enter'd twine far above the rest. The royal dame
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  Speaker 3: already doom'd to love disastrous flame, with eyes insatiate and tumultuous.
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  Speaker 3: Joy beholds the presence and admires the boy. The guileful
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: god'd about the hero, long with children's play and false embraces, hung,
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  Speaker 3: then sought the Queen. She took him to her arms
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: with greedy pleasure, and devour'd his charms. Unhappy, Dido little thought,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: what guess'd how dire a god she drew so near
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: her breast. But he, mindless of his mother's prayer, works
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: in the pliant posm of the thick, and molds her
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  Speaker 3: heart anew and blots her former care and dead is
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: to the living. Love resign'd, and all Annaeus enters in
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  Speaker 3: her mind. Now when the rage of hunger was appeas'd,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: the meat remov'd, and every guest was pleas'd. The golden
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: bowls with sparkling wine are crown'd, and through the palace
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: cheerful cries resoun'd from gilded roofs. Depending lamps display nocturnal
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: beams that emulate the day. A golden bowl that shone
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: with gems divine the queen commanded to be crown'd with wine,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: that bowl that bellus us'd in all the Tyrian line,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: then silence through the hall, proclaim'd she spoke, O, Hospitable Jove,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: we thus in spoke with solemn rites, Thy sacred name
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  Speaker 3: and power, blessed to both nations this auspicious hour. So
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  Speaker 3: may the Trojan and the Tyrian line in lasting concord
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  Speaker 3: from this day come by Thou Backest, God of Joy's
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  Speaker 3: and friendly cheer and grace's juno both be present here.
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  Speaker 3: And you, my lords of tire, your vow's address to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: heaven with mine to ratify the peace the goblet. Then
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: she took with nectar crown'd, sprinkling the first libations on
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: the ground, then rais'd it to him mouth with sober grace,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: then sipping offer'd to the next place twas Biteous, whom
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: she call'd a thirsty soul. He took the challenge and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: embraced the bowl with pleasure, swill'd the gold, nor ceas'd
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: to draw till he the bottom of the brimmer saw
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: the goblet goes around. iOpus brought his golden lyre, and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: some were ancient. Atlas taught the various labors of the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: one during moon and whence precedes the eclipses of the sun.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: The original of man and beast, And whence the rain
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: arise and fires their warmth dispense and fix'd, and erring
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: stars dispose their influence. What shakes the earth? What cause
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: delays the summer? Night? And shortness with the days? With
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: peals of shouts, the Tyrians praise the song. Those peals
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: are echo'd by the Trojan, The unhappy queen with talk
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: prolong'd the night, and drank large drafts of love, with
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: vast delight of priam, much inquir'd of hector, more than
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: ask'd what arms the swarthy men on war? What troops
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: he landed on the Trojan's shore? The steeds of Diomede
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: varied the discourse, and fierce Archilles with his matchless force
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: at length as faith in her ill stars required to
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: hear the series of the war desired, relate at large,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: my god like guests, she said the Grecian stratagems. The
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: town betrayed the fatal issue of solar a war, Your flight,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: your wanderings, and your woes declare for since on every sea,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: on every coast, your men have been distressed, your navy
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: tossed seven times, the sun has either tropic view'd, the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: winter banished, and the Spring renewed end of book one.
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  Speaker 2: Book two, Part one of the Ininaid. This is the
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  Speaker 2: The Aaeid by Publius Regilius Marrow, translated by John Dryden.
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  Speaker 2: Book two, How They Took the City Part one. All
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  Speaker 2: were attentive to the god like man when from his
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  Speaker 2: lofty couch he thus began, Great Queen, what you command
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  Speaker 2: me to relate renews the sad remembrance of our fate,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: an empire from its old foundation's rent. In every woe
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: the Trojans underwent a peopled city, made a desert place.
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  Speaker 2: All that I saw, and part of which I was
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  Speaker 2: not Even the hardest of our foes could hear. Nor
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  Speaker 2: stern Ulysses tell without a tear. And now the latter
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: watch of wasting night and setting stars to kindly rest invite.
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  Speaker 2: But since you take such interest in our woe and
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Troy's disastrous end, desire to know, I will restrain my
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  Speaker 2: tears and briefly tell what in our last and fatal
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: night befell by destiny compelled and in despair, the Greeks
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: grew weary of the tedious war, and by Minerva's aid
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: a fabric reared, which, like a steed of monstrous height, appeared.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: The sides were planked with pine. They feigned it made
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  Speaker 2: for their return, and thus this vow they paid. Thus
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: they pretend. But in the hollow side, selected numbers of
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  Speaker 2: their soldiers hide with inward arms. The dire machines they load,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: and iron bowels stuff. The dark abode in sight of
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Troy lies Teneddose and Isle. While fortune did on Priam's
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: empire smile renowned for wealth. But since a faithless bay,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: where ships exposed to wind and weather lay there was
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: their fleet concealed, we thought for Greece. Their sails were hoisted,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: and our fears release. The Trojans cooped within their walls,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: so long unbarred their gates an issue in a throng
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: like swarming bees, and with delight survey the camp deserted,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: where the Grecians lay the quarters of the several chiefs.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: They showed here Phoenix, here, Achilles made abode, here joined
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: the battles. Here the navy road part on the pile.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Their wondering eyes employ the pile by palace raised to
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: ruin Troy Thimohites. First, tis is doubtful, whether hired or so.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: The trojan destiny required moved that the ramparts might be
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: broken down to lodge the monster fabric in the town.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: But Cappies and the rest of Sounder mind the fatal
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: present to the flames designed or to the watery deep,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: at least to bore the hollow sides and hidden frauds
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: explore the giddy vulgar as their fancies guide with noise,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: say nothing, and in parts divide. Laokun, followed by a
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: numerous crowd, ran from the fort and cried from afar
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: aloud o, wretched countrymen, what fury rains? What more than
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: madness has possessed your brains? Think you? The Grecians from
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  Speaker 2: your coasts are gone and are ulysses arts no better known.
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  Speaker 2: This hollow fabric either must enclose within its blind recesses
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: are secret foes or tis an engine raised above the
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: town to overlook the walls and then to batter down
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: somewhat is sure designed by fraud or force trust, not
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: their presence nor admit the horse. Thus, having said against
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: the steed, he threw his forceful spear, which, hissing as flew,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood, and trembling
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: in the hollow body stood the sides transpierced returned a
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: rattling sound, and groans of Greeks enclosed come issuing through
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: the wound. And had not heaven the fall of Troy designed,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: or had not men been faded to be blind? Enough
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: was said and done to inspire a better mind? Then
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: had our lances pierced the treacherous wood and Ilian towers,
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  Speaker 2: and Priam's empire stood meantime with shouts. The Trojan shepherds
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: bring a captive Greek and bands before the king, taken
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: to take, who made himself their prey, to impose on
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  Speaker 2: their belief. And Troy betray fixed on his arm and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: obstinately bent to die undaunted or to circumvent about the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: captive tides of Trojans flow, all pressed to sea in
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: some insult the foe. Now hear how well the Greeks,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: their wiles disguised, behold a nation in a man comprised trembling.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: The miscreants stood unarmed and bound. He starred and rolled
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: his haggard eyes around, then said, alas, what earth remains,
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  Speaker 2: what sea is open to receive? Unhappy me, what fate
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: a wretched fugitive attends? Scorned by my foes, abandoned by
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: my friends, he said inside and cast a rueful eye.
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  Speaker 2: Our pity kindles and our passions die. We cheer youth
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: to make his own defense and freely tell us what
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: he was, and whence what news he could impart? We
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  Speaker 2: long to know, and what to credit from a captive foe.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: His fear at length dismissed, he said, whate'er my fate ordains,
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  Speaker 2: my words shall be, sincere I neither can nor dare
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  Speaker 2: my birth disclaim. Greece is my country, Sinon is my name.
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  Speaker 2: Though plunged by fortune's power and misery, does not in
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  Speaker 2: fortune's power to make me lie. If any chance has
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: hither brought me the name of Palamedes, not unknown to fame,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: who suffered from the malice of the times, accused and
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: sentenced for pretended crimes, because these fatal wars he would prevent,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: whose death the wretched Greeks too late lament me. Then
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: a boy, my father, poor and bar of other means,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: committed to his care, his kinsmen and companion in the war,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: while fortune favored, while his arms support the cause and
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: ruled the counsels of the court. I made some figure there.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Nor was my name obscure, nor I without my share
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: of fame. But when ulysses with fallacious arts had made
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: impression in the people's hearts and forged a treason in
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: my patron's name, I speak of things too far divulged
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: by fame. My kinsmen fell. Then, I, without support, in private,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: mourned his loss and left the court mad as I was.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: I could not bear his faith with silent grief, but
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: loudly blame the state and cursed the dire fault author
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: of my woes. Twas to again, and hence my ruin rose.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: I threatened, if indulgent heaven once more would land me
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: safely on my native shore. His death with double vengeance
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: to restore this moved the murderer's hate, and thus ensued
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: the effects of malice from a man so proud ambiguous
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: rumors through the camp he spread and sought by treason
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: my devoted head. New crimes invented, left unturned no stone
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: to make my guilt appear and hide his own till
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Calchius was by force and threatening wrought. But why why
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: dwell I on that anxious thought? If on my nation
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: just revenge you seek, and it is to appear a foe,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: to appear a Greek. Already you my name and country know,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: assuage your thirst of blood, and strike the blow my death.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: Will both the kingly brothers please and set insatious Ithacus
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: at ease? This fair unfinished tale, these broken starts, raised
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: expectations in our longing hearts, unknowing as we were in
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Grecian arts, his former trembling once again renewed with acted fear.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: The villain thus pursued long. Had the Grecians, tired with
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: fruitless care and wearied with an unsuccessful war, resolved to
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: raise the siege and leave the town, And had the
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: gods permitted, they had gone. But off the wintry seas
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: and southern winds withstood their passage home and changed their minds, portents,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: and prodigies, their souls amazed, but most when this stupendous
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: pile was raised. Then flaming meteors hung in air were seen,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: and thunders rattled through a sky Serene, dismayed and fearful
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: of some dire event, Eurypolis to inquire their fate was
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: sent he from the gods. This dreadful answer brought o Grecians.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: When the Trojan's shores you sought, your passage with a
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: virgin's blood was bought. So must your safe return be
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: bought again, and Grecian blood once more to atone the main.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: The spreading rumor round, the people ran, all feared, and
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: each believed himself. The man Ulysses took the advantage of
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: their fright, called Cauchius, and produced in open sight. Then
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: bade him name the wretch ordained by fate, the public
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: victim to redeem the state. Already some presaged the Diyra
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: event and saw what sacrifice Ulysses meant. For twice five
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: days the old seer withstood the intended treason, and was
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: dumb to blood, till tired with endless clamors. In pursuit
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: of Ithacus, he stood no longer mute. But as it
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: was agreed, pronounced that I was destined by the wrathful
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: gods to die. All praised the sentence, pleased the storm
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: should fall on one alone whose fury threatened all the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: dismal day was come. The priests prepare the eleven cakes
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: and filets for my hair. I followed nature's laws and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: must avow. I broke my bonds and fled the fatal blow.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: Hid in a weedy lake all night. I lay secure
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: of safety when they sailed away. But now what further
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: hopes for me? Remain to see my friends or native
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: soil again, my tender infants, or my careful sire, whom
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: they returning will to death require, will perpetrate on them
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: their first design and take the forfeit of their heads
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: for mine, which I if pity mortal minds could move,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: if there be faith below or God's above, if innocence
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: and truth can claim dessert, ye trojans from an injured wretch,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: avert false tears, true pity move. The king commands to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: loose his fetters and unbind his hands, then adds these
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: friendly words, dismiss thy fears, forget the Greeks, be mine
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: as thou wert theirs. But truly tell, was it for
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: force or guile or some religious end? You raise the pile,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Thus said the king, He full of fraudful arts. Thus
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: well invented tale for truth in parts, Ye lamps of heaven,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: he said, and lifted high his hands. Now free thou
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: venerable sky, inviolable powers, adorned with dread, Ye fatal philets
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: that once bound this head, Ye sacred altars, from whose
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: flames I fled, be of all ajured and grant I
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: may without a crime the ungrateful Greeks betray, reveil the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: secrets of the guilty state, and justly punish whom I hate.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: But you, o King, preserve the faith you gave if
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: I to save myself your empire. Save the Grecian hopes.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: And all the attempts they made were only founded on
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: Minerva's aid. From the time when Impious diomeded in false ulysses,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: that inventive head, her fatal image from the temple drew
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: the sleeping guardians of the castle, slew her virgin statue
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: with the bloody hands, polluted, and profaned her holy bands.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: From thence, the tide of fortune left their shore and
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: ebbed much faster than it flowed before. Their courage languished
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: as their hopes decayed, and Pallas, now adverse, refused her aid.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare her altered mind and
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: alienated care. When first her fatal image touched the ground,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: she sternly cast her glaring eyes around that sparkled as
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: they rolled and seemed to threat her. Heavenly limbs distilled
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: a briny sweat thrice from the ground. She leapt and
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: was seen to wield her brandish lanced and shake her
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: horrid shield. Then Calchius bade our host for flight and hope,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: no conquest from the tedious war, till first they sail
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: for Greece, their prayers be sought, her injured power and
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: better omens brought, and now their navies plows the watery main.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: Yet soon expect it on your shores again, with pallace
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: pleased as couches did ordain, But first to reconcile the
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: blue eyed Maid for her stolen statue and her tower betrayed.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: Warned by the steer to her offended name, we raised
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: and dedicated this wondrous frame, so lofty, lest through your
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: forbidden gates it passed, and intercept our better fates. For
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: once admitted there, our hopes are lost, and Troy may
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: then a new palladium boast for so religion in God's
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: ordain that if you violate with hands profane Bernerva's gift,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: your town in flame shall burn, which omen o ye
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: gods on Grecia turn. But if it climb with your
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: assisting hands the Trojan walls and in the city stands,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: then troll roy shaw Argos and Mycene burn, and the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: reverse of fate on us return. With such deceits he
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: arts what Diomede, nor Thetus's greater son a thousand ships,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: nor tenuere siege had done false tears and fawning words.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: The city won a greater omen, and of worse portent
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: did our unwary minds, with fear torment, concurring to produce
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: the dire event. Laoocun, Neptune's priest by lot that year,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: with solemn pomp, then sacrificed to steer. When dreadful to
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: behold from the sea, we spied two serpents rank abreast
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: the seas divide and smoothly seep along the swelling tide.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Their flaming crests above the waves they show their bellies
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: seemed to burn the seas below their speckled tales advance
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: to steer their course. And on the sounding shore the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: flying billows force, and now the strand, and now the plain.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: They held. Their ardent eyes with bloody streaks, were filled
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: their nimble tongues. They brandished as they came, and licked
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: their hissing jaws that spluttered flame. We fled, amazed their
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: destined way to take into Laocun and to his children.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: Make at first round the tender boys they whind. Then
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: with their sharpened fangs, their limbs and bodies grind the
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: wretched father, running to their aid with pious haste, but vain,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: they next invaded twice round his waist, their winding volumes rolled,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: and twice about his grasping throat. They fold the priest,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: thus doubly choked, their crests divide, and towering over his
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: head and triumph. Ried with both his hands, he labors
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: at the knots his holy filets. The blue venom blots,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: his roaring fills the flitting air around. Thus, when an
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: Ox receives a glossing wound, he breaks his bands. The
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: fatal altar flies, and with loud bellowing, breaks the yielding
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: skies their tasks perform. The serpents quit their prey and
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: to the tower palace make their way. Couched at her feet,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: they lie protected there by her large buckler and pretended spear.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Amazement seizes all. The general cry proclaims Laocoon, justly doomed
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: to die, whose hand the will of palace had withstood,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: and dared to violate the sacred wood. All vote to
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: admit the steed, that vows be paid and incense offered
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: to the offended maid. A spacious breach is made. The
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: towe lies bare, some hoisting levers. Some the wheels prepare
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: and fastened to the horses feet. The rest, with cables,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: haul along the unreally beast, each on his own fellow
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: for assistance, calls at length. The fatal fabric mounts the walls,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: big with destruction, with chaplets crowned inquires of virgins sing
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: and dance around. Thus raised aloft and then descending down,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: it enters o'er our heads and threats the town O
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: sacred city built by hands divine o valiant heroes of
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: the Trojan line. Four times he struck as oft. The
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: clashing sound of arms were heard, and inward groans rebound
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: yet mad with zeal and blinded with our fate, we
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: hauled along the horse in solemn state, then placed the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: dire portent within the tower. Cassandra cried and cursed the
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: unhappy hour foretold our fate. But by the God's decree
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: all heard, but none believed the prophecy. With branches we
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: the fanes adorn and waste in joliality. The day ordain
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: to be the last. Meantime, the rapid heavens rolled down
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: the light, and on the shaded ocean rushed the night.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: Our men, secure nor guards nor sentries, held but easy sleep,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: their weary limbs compelled. The Grecians had embarked their naval
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: powers from Tenedos and Salt, our well known shores, safe
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: under covert of the silent night, and guided by the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: Imperial Galley's light. When Synon, favored by the partial gods,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: unlocked the horse and opted his dark abodes, restored to
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: the vital air. Our hidden foes, who, joyful from their
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: long confinement, rose Tysander bold A stenless their guide and
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: Diulysses down the cable slide. Then thoas Athemus and peuris haste.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: Nor was the Podalarian hero Last, nor injured Menelaeus, nor
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: the famed Epius, who the fatal engine framed a nameless
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: crowd succeed. Their forces joined to invade the town. Oppressed
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: with sleep and wine. Those few they find awake first
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: meet their fate. Then to their fellows they unbar their
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: gait twas in the dead of the night, when sleep repairs,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: our bodies, worn with toils, are mined with cares. When
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: Hector's ghosts before my sight appears a bloody shroud. He
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: seemed and bathed in tears, such as he was when
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: by Pelladus slain. Thessalian corsairs dragged him over the plain,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: swollen where his feet, as when the throngs were thrust
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: through the bored holes, his body black with dust. Unlike
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: that Hector who returned from toils of war triumphant in
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: Achaean spoils, or him who made the fainting Greeks retire
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: and launched from their navy Phrygian fire, his hair and
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: beards stood stiffened with his gore. All the wounds he
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: for his country bore now streamed afresh, and with new
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: purple ran I wept to see the visionary man, And
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: while my trance continued. Thus began o light of Trojans
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: and support of Troy, thy father's champion, and thy country's joy,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: Oh long expected by thy friends. From whence art thou
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: so late returned for our defense? Do we behold thee
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: wearied as we are, with length of labors and with
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: toils of war, after so many funerals of our own,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: art thou restored to thy declining town. But say, what
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: wounds are these? What new disgrace deforms the manly features
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: of thy face? To this? The specter no reply did frame,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: but answered to the cause for which he came, and,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: groaning from the bottom of his breast, this warning, in
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: these mournful words expressed, Oh Godess born, escape by timely
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: flight the flames and horrors of this fatal night. The
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: foes already have possessed the wall. Troy nods from high
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: royal name, more than enough to duty and to fame.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: If by a mortal hand, my father's throne could be
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: defended twas by mine alone. Now Troy to thee commends
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: her future state and gives her gods companions of thy fate,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: from their assistance walls expect which wandering long. At last
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: thou shalt erect, he said, and brought to me from
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: their blest abodes the venerable statues of the gods with
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: ancient vesta, from the sacred choir, the wreaths and relics
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: of the immortal fire. Now peals of shouts came, thundering
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: from afar, cries, threats, and loud laments and mingled war.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: The noise approaches Thou, o pallace stood aloof from streets,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: encompassed with a wood, louder and yet more loud. I
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: hear the alarms of human cries, distinct in clashing arms.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: Fear broke my slumbers. I no longer stay, but mount
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: the terrace. Thence the towns survey and hearken what the
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: frightful sounds convey. Thus, when a flood of fire by
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: wind is borne, crackling, it rolls and mouths the standing
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: corn or deluges descending on the plains, sweeping over the
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: yellow year, destroying the panes of laboring oxen and peasants
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: gains en route the forest oaks and bear away flocks,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: folds and trees and undistinguished prey. The shepherd climbs the
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: cliff and sees from afar the wasteful ravaging of the
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: watery war. Then Hector's faith was manifestly cleared, and the
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: Grecian frouds in open light appeared. The palace of Dave.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Phoebus ascends in smoky flames and catches on his friends.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Uclagan burns. Next, the seas are bright with splendor not
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: their own, and shine with Trojan light. New clamors and
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: new clangers now arise, the sound of trumpets mixed with
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: fighting cries, with frenzy seized, I run to meet the alarms,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: Resolved on death, resolved to die in arms, but first
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: to gather friends and with them to oppose, if fortune favored,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: and repel the foes, spurred by my courage and by
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: my country, fired with sense of honor and revenge. Inspired Pantheus,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: Apollo's priest, a sacred name, had escaped the Grecian's swords
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: and passed the flame with relics loaded to my doors.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: He fled, and by the hand of his tender grandson
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: led What hope, O, Pantheus, Whither can we run? Where
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: make a stand? And what yet may be done, Scarce
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: said I, when Pantheus with a groan Troy's no more
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: an Ilium was a town. The fatal day, the appointed
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: hours come when dreathful Jove's irrevocable doom transfers the Trojan
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: state to Grecian hands. The fire consumes the town. The
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: foe commands and arm hosts an unexpected force break from
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: the bows of the fatal horse. Within the gates. Proud
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: Syinon throws about the flames, and foes for entrance press
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: without with thousand others, whom I feared a name more
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: than from Argos or Myceni, came to several posts. Their parties.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: They divide. Some block the narrow streets, some scour the wide,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: the bold they kill the unwary. They surprise who fights
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: finds death, and death finds him who flies the warders
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: of the gate. But Scarce maintain the unequal combat and
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: resist in vain. I heard and heaven that well born
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: soul inspires, prompts me, through lifted swords and rising fires,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: to run where clashing arms and clamor calls, and rush
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: undaunted to defend the walls. Rypheus and Iphetus by my
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: side and gage for valor, one renowned and one for age.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: Diamus and Hyphanus by moonlight new my motions and my mien,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: and to my party drew with young Correbis, who by
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: love was led to win renowned and fair Cassandra's bed,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: and lately brought his troops to Priam's aid. Fore warrant
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: in vain by the prophetic maid, whom when I saw
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: resolv'd in arms to fall, and that one spirit animated
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: all brave souls, said I, But brave alast in vain,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: come finish what our cruel fates ordain. Ye see the
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: desperate state of our affairs, and Heaven's protecting powers are
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: deaf to prayers. The passive gods behold the Greeks defile
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: their temples and abandoned to the spoil their own abodes.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: We feeble few conspire to save a sinking town involved
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: in fire. Then let us fall, but fall amidst our
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: foes despair of life. The means of living shows, so
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: speech encourage their desire of death and added fuel to
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: their fire. As hungry wolves with raging appetite scour through
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: the fields, nor fear the stormy night their whelps at home,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: expect the promised food, and long to temper their dry
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  Speaker 2: chaps in blood. So rushed we forth at once, resolved
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: to die, resolved in death, the last extremes to try.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: We leave the narrow lanes behind, and dare the unequal
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: combat in the public square. Night was our friend, our
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: leader was despair. What tongue can tell the slaughter of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: that night? What eyes can weep the sorrows and affright
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: and ancient? In Imperial city falls, The streets are filled
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: with frequent funerals, Houses and holy temples float in blood,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: and hostile nations make a common flood. Not only trojans fall,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: but in their turn the vanquished triumph and the victor's
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: morn ours take courage from despair and night confused, the
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: fortune is confused, the fight all parts resound with tumults,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: plaints and fears, and grisly death. In Sundry Shapes appears
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: andro Gios fell among us with his band, who thought
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  Speaker 2: us Grecians newly come to land from Whence said he,
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  Speaker 2: my friends, this long delay. You loiter while the spoils
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: are borne away. Our ships are laden with the Trojan store,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: and you like truants come too late ashore, he said,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: but soon corrected his mistake, found by the doubtful answers
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: which we make. Amazed, he would have shunned the unequal fight,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: but we more numerous intercepted his flight. As when some
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: peasant in a bushy brake has, with unwary footing pressed
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: a snake. He starts aside, astonished when he spies his
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: rising crest, blue neck and rolling eyes. So from our
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: arms surprised, and Roggio's flies in vain for him and
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: his we compassed round, possessed with fear, a knowing of
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: the ground and of their lives. An easy conquest found.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: Thus fortune on our first endeavor, smiled Corybus, then with
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: youthful hopes beguiled, swollen with success and a daring mind.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: This new invention fatally design'd my friends, said he. Since
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: fortune shows the way, tis fit that we should the
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: auspicious guide obey, For what has she these Grecian arms bestowed,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: but their destruction and the Trojan's good. Then change we
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: shields and their devices bear let fraud supply the want
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: of force in war they find us arms. This said himself,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: he dressed in dead Androugius's spoils, his upper vest, his
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: painted buckler, and his plumy crest. Thus, gryffeusdamus, all the
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: Trojan train lay down their own attire and stripped the slain.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: Mixed with the Greeks, we go with ill presage, flat,
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  Speaker 2: with hopes to glut our greedy rage, unknown, assaulting whom
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: we blindly met, and strew with Grecian carcasses the street. Thus,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: while their straggling parties we defeat, some to the shore
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: and safer ships retreat, and some, oppressed with more ignoble fear,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: remount the hollow horse and pant in secret there. But ah,
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  Speaker 2: what use of valor can be made when Heaven's propitious
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  Speaker 2: powers refuse their aid. Behold the royal prophetess, the fair Cassandra,
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  Speaker 2: dragged by her dissoveled hair, whom not minervous shrine nor
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: sacred bands in safety could protect from sacrilegious hands on heaven.
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  Speaker 2: She cast her eyes, she sighed, she cried twas all
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: she could. Her tender arms were tied so sad a
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: sight Corbis could not bear, but fired with rage, distracted
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: with despair, amid the barbarous ravagers, he flew our leader's
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: rash example, we pursue, but storms of stones from the
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: proud temple's height pour down and on our battered helms alight.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: We from our friends received this fatal blow. Who thought
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: as Grecians as we seemed in show They aim at
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: the mistaken crests from high and ours beneath. The ponderous
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: ruins lie then moved with anger and disdain to see
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: their troops dispersed. The royal virgins free, the Grecians rally,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: and their powers unite with fury charges and renew the fight.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: The brother kings with Ajax joined their force, and the
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  Speaker 2: whole squadron of Thessalian horse. End of book two, Part one,
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  Speaker 2: Book two, Part two of the Ininaeid. This is the
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  Speaker 2: The Ainaeid by Publius Brgilius Marrow, translated by John Dryden,
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  Speaker 2: Book two, How they Took the City Part two. Thus,
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  Speaker 2: when the rival winds their quarrel try contending for the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: kingdom of the sky south east and west on airy
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: coursers borne the whirlwind gathers and the woods are torn.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: Then Nereus strikes the deep. The billows rise and, mixed
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: with ooze and sand, pollute the skies. And troops we
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: squandered first again appear from several quarters and enclose the rear.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: They first observe, and to the rest betray our different
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: speech and our borrowed arms. Survey oppressed with odds, we fall.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: Corbus first at Pallace's altar, by Penelius pierced. Then Ryphius
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: followed in the unequal fight just of his word. Observant
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: of the right heaven thought not so Thaimus. Their fate
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: attends with hypanis mistaken by their friends, nor Pantheus, thee
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  Speaker 2: thy miter, nor the bands of awful Phoebis saved from
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: impious hands, Ye Trojan Flames, your testimony. Bear what I performed,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: in what I suffered, There no sword avoiding in the
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: fateful strife, exposed to death and prodigal of life. Witness
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: ye heavens, I live not by my fault. I strove
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: to have deserved the death I sought. But when I
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: could not fight and would have died, borne off to
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: distance by the growing tide, old Iphitus and I were hurried. Thence,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: with Pelias wounded and without defense, new clamors from the
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: invested palace ring we run to die or disengage the king,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: so hot, the assault so high, the tumult rose, while
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: ours defend, and while the Greeks oppose, as all that
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: Dardan and Argolic race had been contracted in that narrow
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: space or as ilium else where, void of fear and tumult,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: war and slaughter. Only there their targets in a tortoise cast.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: The foes, securely advancing to the turrets rose. Some mount
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: the scaling ladders, some more bold swerve upwards and by
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: posts and pillars, hold their left hand gripes their bucklers
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: in the ascent, and with their right they seize the
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: battlement from their demolished towers. The Trojans throw huge heaps
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: of stones that falling crushed the foe, and heavy beams
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: and rafters from the sides. Such arms their last necessity provides,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: and gilded roofs come tumbling from on high, the marks
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: of state and of ancient royalty. The guards below, fixed
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: in the past, attend the charge undaunted, and the gate
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: defend renewed and courage, and with recovered breath a second
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: time we ran to tempt our death, to clear the
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: palace from the foe, succeed the weary living, and revenge
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: the dead. A postor and door, yet unobserved and free,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: joined by the length of a blind gallery to the
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: king's closet, led away, well known to Hector's wife, while
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: Priam held the throne, through which she brought icetatics unseen
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: to cheer his grandsire and his grandsire's queen. Through this
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: we pass and mount the tower. From whence, with unavailing arms,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: the Trojans make defense. From this. The trembling king had
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: oft descried the Grecian camp and saw their navy ride
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: beams from its lofty height. With swords we hew, then,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: wrenching with our hands, the assault renew and where the
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: rafters on the columns meet, we push them headlong with
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: our arms and feet. The lightning flies not swifter than
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: the fall, nor thunder louder than the ruined wall. Down
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: goes the top. At once. The Greeks beneath our pucemeal
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: torn or pounded into death. Yet more succeed, and more
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: to death are sent. We cease, not from above, nor
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: they below relent before the gate stood pearis, threatening loud
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: with glittering arms, conspicuous in the crowd, so shines renewed
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: in youth. The crested snake, who slept the winter in
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: a thorny break and casting off his slough. When spring
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: returns now looks aloft and with new glory burns restored
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: with poisonous herbs. His ardent sides reflect the sun, and
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: raised on spires, he writhes high o'er the grass, hissing,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: he rolls along and brandishes by fits his forky tongue,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: proud pariface, and fierce automedon his father's charioteer. Together run
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: to force the gate. The scary in infantry rushed in
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: on crowds, and the barred passage free, entering the court
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: with shouts the skies they rend in flaming firebrands to
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: the roofs ascend himself among the foremost deals the blows,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: and with his axe repeated strokes, bestows on the strong doors,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: then all their shoulders ply till from the posts the
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: brazen hinges fly. He hews apace the double bars at length,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: yield to his axe and unresisted strength. A mighty breach
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: is made, the rooms conceal'd appeer, and all the palace
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: is revealed, the halls of audience and of public state,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: and where the lonely queen in secret sate armed soldiers,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: now by trembling maids are seen with not a door,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: and scarce. A space between the house is filled with
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: loud laments and cries and shrieks of women rend the
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: vaulted skies. The fearful matrons run from place to place
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: and kiss the thresholds, and the posts embrace the fatal
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: work in human peeresst plies, and all his father sparkles
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: in his eyes, nor bars, nor fighting guards his force sustain.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: The bars are broken, and the guards are slain. In
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: rushed the Greeks, and all the apartments fill those few
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: defendants whom they find they kill not with so fierce
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: a rage. The foaming flood roars when he finds his
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: rapid course withstood, bears down the dams with unresisted sway,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: and sweeps the cattle and the cots away. These eyes
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: beheld him when he marched between the brother kings. I
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: saw the unhappy queen, the hundred wives, and where old
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: Priam stood to stain his hallow, altered with his brood,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: the fifty nuptial beds. Such hopes had he so large
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: a promise of a progeny, The posts of plated gold
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: and hung with spoils fell the reward of the proud
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: victor's toils. Wherever the raging fire had left a space,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: the Grecians enter and possess the place. Perhaps you may
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: of Priam's fate inchoire He, when he saw his regal
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: town on fire, his ruined palace, and entering foes on
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: every side, inevitable woes in arms, disused invest his limbs
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: decay'd like them with age, a late and useless aid,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: his feeble shoulders scarce the weight sustain, loaded, not armed,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: he creeps along with pain, despairing of success, ambitious to
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: be slain, uncover'd. But by heaven, there stood in view
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: an altar near the hearth, a laurel grew, dotted with age,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: whose bow encompass round the household gods and shade the
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: holy ground. Here Hecuba, with her helpless train of dames
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: for shelter, sought, but sought in vain, driven like a
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: flock of doves along the sky. Their images they hug,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: and to their altars fly the queen, when she beheld
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: her trembling lord, and hanging by his side a heavy sword,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: What rage, she cried, has seized my husband's mind? What
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: arms are these? And to what use? Design'd these times? Want?
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: Other aids? Were Hector here, even Hector now in vain
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: like Priam would appear with us one common shelter, thou
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: shalt find or in one common fate with us be joined,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: she said, And with the last salute embraced the poor
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: old man, and by the laurel placed behold Polites, one
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: of Priam's sons, pursued by peirus. Therefore safety runs, throws
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: swords and foes. Amazed and hurt, he flies, throw empty
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: courts and open galleries. Him peeris, urging with his lance,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: pursues and often reaches, and his thrusts renews. The youth,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: transfixed with lamentable cries, expires before his wretched parent's eyes,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: whom gasping at his feet. When Priam saw the fear
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: of death gave place to nature's law, and shaking more
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: with anger than with age, the gods said, he requite
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: thy brutal rage. As sure they will, barbarian, sure they must.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: If there be gods in heaven, in God's be just,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: who takest in wrongs and insolent delight with a son's
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  Speaker 2: death to infect a father's sight, Nor he whom thou
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: in lying fame conspire to call thee his not he
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 2: thy vaunted, sire, Thy used my wretched age, the gods.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: He feared the laws of nature and of nations. Heard,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: he cheered my sorrows, and for sums of gold, the
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: bloody carcass of my hector souled, pitied the woes. A
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: paron underwent and set me back in safety from his tent.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: This said his feeble hand. A javelin threw, which fluttering
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: seemed to loiter as it flew just and but barely
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 2: to a market held, and faintly tinkled on the brazen shield.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: Then Pius said, go thou from me to fate and
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  Speaker 2: to my father. My foul deeds relate. Now die. And
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: with that he dragged the trembling sire, slittering through the
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: clattered blood and holy mire. The mingled paced his murdered
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: son had made hauled from beneath the violated shade. And
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: on this sacred pile the royal victim laid his right hand,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: held as bloody falchian bare his left he twisted in
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: his hoary hair. Then, with the speeding thrust his heart,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: he found the lukewarm blood came rushing through the wound.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: The sanguine streams disdained the sacred ground. Thus Priam fell
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: and shared one common fate, and with Troy and ashes
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: and his ruined state, he who the scepter of all
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: Asia swayed, whom monarchs, like domestic slaves, obeyed. On the
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: bleak shore, now lies the abandoned king, a headless carcass,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: in a nameless thing. Then, not before I felt my
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: crudal blood congeal with fear, my hair with horror. Stood
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: My father's image filled my pious mind, lest equal years
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: might equal fortune find again. I thought of my forsaken wife,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: andmbled for my son's abandoned life. I looked about, but
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: found myself alone, deserted at my need. My friends were gone,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: some spent with toil, some with despair. Oppressed, leaped headlong
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: from the heights. The flames consumed the rest. Thus, wandering
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: in my way without a guide, the graceless Helen. In
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: the porch I spied a Vesta's temple. There she lurked alone, muffled.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: She sate and what she could unknown. But by the
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: flames that cast their blaze around that common bane of
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: Greece and Troy, I found for ilium burns. She dreads
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: the Trojan's sword, more dreads the vengeance of her injured lord,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: even by those gods who refuged her aboard trembled with rage,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: the strumpet I regard resolved to give her guilt the
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: due reward. Shall she triumphant sail before the wind and
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: leaven flames, unhappy Troy behind. Shall she her kingdom and
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: her friend's review in state, attended with a captive crew,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: while unrevenged, the good old Priam falls and Grecian fires
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: consumed the Trojan walls. For this, the Phrygian fields and
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: Xanthian flood were swelled with bodies and were drunk with blood.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: Tis is true a soldier can small honor, gain and
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 2: boast no conquest from a woman's lain. Yet shall the
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: fact not pass without applause. A vengeance taken in so
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: just a cause the punished crime shall set my soul
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: at ease, the murmuring manes of my friends appease. Thus,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: while I rave a gleam of pleasing light spread over
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: the palace and shining heavenly bright, my mother stood revealed
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: before my sight. Never so radiant did her eyes appear,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: not her own star confessed a light so clear, great
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: in her charms, as when on God's above she looks
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: and breathes herself into their love. She held my hand
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: the destined blow to break. Then from her rosy lips
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: began to speak, my son, From whence this madness, this
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: neglect of my commands and those whom I protect? Why
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: pledges leave behind? Look if your helpless father yet survive,
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: or if Ascanius or Kisa live around your house, the
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: greedy grecians err and these had perished in the knightly war.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: But in my presence in protecting care, not Helen's face
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: nor Paris was in fault. But by the gods was
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: this destruction brought. Now, cast thy eyes around, while I
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: dissolve the mists and films that mortal eyes involve. Purge
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: from your sight the dross, and make you see the
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 2: shape of every avenging deity enlightened. Thus my just commands
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: fulfill nor fear obedience to thy mother's will. Where yon disordered,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: heap of ruined lies, stones rent from stones, where clouds
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: of dust arise amid that smother. Neptune holds his place
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: below the wall's foundation, drives his mace and heaves the
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: building from the solid base. Look where in arms Imperial
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: Juno stands full in the sky on gate, with loud
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 2: commands urging on shore the tardy Grecian bands see see
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: palace on her snakely buckler proud bestrides the tower, refulgent
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: through the crowd see Jove new courage to the foe,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: supplies in arms against the town. The partial deities haste,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: Hence my son, this fruitless labor end haste, Where your
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: troubling spouse and sire attend haste and a mother's care.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: Your passage shall be friend, she said, and swiftly vanished
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 2: from my sight, obscured in clouds and gloomy shades of night.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: I looked, I listened, dreadful sounds I hear, and the
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: dire forms of hostile gods appear Troy sunken flames I saw,
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: nor could prevent and Ilium from its old foundations. Rent
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: rent like a mountain ash, which dared the winds and
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: stood the sturdy strokes of laboring hinds. About the roots,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: the cruel axe resounds, and stumps are pierced with off
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  Speaker 2: repeated wounds. The war is felt on high. The nodding
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  Speaker 2: crown now threats a fall and throws the leafy honors
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  Speaker 2: down to their united force. It yields, though late, and
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  Speaker 2: mourns with immortal groans the approaching fate. The roots no
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: more their upper loads sustain. But down she falls and
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: spreads a ruin through the plain, descending thence I scraped
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  Speaker 2: through foes and fire before the goddess. Foes and flames retire,
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  Speaker 2: arriv'd at home. He for whose only sake, or most
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: for his such toils, I undertake the good anchisus whom,
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  Speaker 2: by timely flight I propose to secure on Ida's height.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: Refused the journey, resolute to die, and added his funerals
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: to the fate of Troy. Rather than exile and old
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: age sustain, go you, whose blood runs warm in every vein,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: had Heaven decreed that I should life and joy. Heaven
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: had decreed to save unhappy Troy. Tis sure enough, if
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: not too much for one twice to have seen our
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: ilium overthrown. Make haste to save the poor remaining crew,
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  Speaker 2: and give this useless corpse a long adieu. These weak
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  Speaker 2: old hands suffice to stop my breath at least pitying
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  Speaker 2: the foes will aid my death, to take my spoils
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  Speaker 2: and leave my body bare. As for my sepulcher, let
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: heaven take care. Tis long, since I, for my celestial wife,
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  Speaker 2: loathe by the gods, had dragg'd a lingering life. Since
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: every hour and moment I expire, blasted from heaven by
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: Jove's avenging fire. This oft repeated, he stood fixed to
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: die myself, my wife, my son, my family, entreat, pray, beg,
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  Speaker 2: and raise a doleful cry. What will he still persist
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: on death resolve and in his ruin all his house
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: involve He still persists his reason to maintain Our prayers,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: our tears, our loud laments are vain. Urged by despair. Again,
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: I go to try the fate of arms, resolv'd in
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: fight to die. What hope remains? But what my death
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: must give. Can I without so dear a father live
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: you termit prudence, what I baseness call? Could such a
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: word from such apparent fall? If fortune please, and so
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: the God's ordain that nothing should have ruined Troy remain,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 2: and you conspire with fortune to be slain. The way
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: to death is wide. The approach is near. For soon,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: relentless peeress will appear reeking with Priam's blood, the wretch
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: who slew the son inhuman in the father's view, and
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: then the sire himself to the dire altar drew O,
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: Goddess mother, give me back to fate. Your gift was
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 2: undesired and came too late. Did you for this unhappy
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  Speaker 2: me convey through foes and fires to see my house
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  Speaker 2: a prey? Shall I, my father, wife, and son behold
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: waltering and blood each other's arms? Enfold, haste, girt my
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: sword through spent and overcome. Tis the last summons to
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: receive our doom. I hear thee Fate, and I obey
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: thy call. Not unrevenged, the foe shall see my fall,
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  Speaker 2: restore me the yet unfinished fight my death is wanting
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: to conclude. The knight armed once again my glittering sword
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: I wield, while the other hand sustains my weighty shield.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: And forth I rushed to seek the abandoned field I went,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: but sad Chrysa stopped my way and crossed the threshold
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: in my passage, lay embraced my knees, and when I
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: would have gone, showed me my feeble sire and tender son.
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  Speaker 2: If death be your design, at least, said she, take
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: us along to share your destiny. If any farther hopes
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: in arms remain this place, these pledges of your love maintain.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 2: To whom do you expose your father's life, your son's,
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  Speaker 2: and mine. You are now forgotten wife. While thus she
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: fills the house with clamoring cries, our hearing is diverted
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 2: by our eyes. For while I held my son in
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 2: the short space betwixt our kisses and our last embrace
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: strange to relate. From young Ulus's head, a lambent flame arose,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: which gently spread around his brows and on his temples.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: Fed amazed with running water, we prepare to quench the
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 2: sacred fire and slake his hair. But old anchisis versed
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 2: in omens, reared his hands to heaven, and this request
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 2: preferred if any vows, almighty Joe can bend thy will,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: If piety can prayers command confirm the glad presage which
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: thou art please descend scarce had he said, when on
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  Speaker 2: our left we hear a peal of rattling thunder, roll
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 2: and air. There shot a streaming lamp across the sky,
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: which on the winged lightning, seemed to fly from o'er
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  Speaker 2: the roof. The blaze began to move, and trailing vanished
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: in the dean grove. It swept a path in heaven
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: and shown a guide. Then, in a streaming stench of sulfur, died.
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  Speaker 2: The good old man, with suppliant hands, implored the God's
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: protection and their star adored. Now now said he, my son,
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  Speaker 2: no more delay, I yield, I follow where Heaven shows
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  Speaker 2: the way. Keep o my country, Gods, our dwelling place,
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  Speaker 2: and guard this relic of the Trojan, race this tender child.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: These omens are your own, and you can yet restore
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: the ruined town, at least accomplish what your signs for show.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 2: I stand resigned and am prepared to go, he said.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: The crackling fires appear on high, and driving sparkles dance
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: along the sky. With vulcans raged. The rising winds conspire,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 2: and near our palace roll the flood of fire. Haste,
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  Speaker 2: my dear father, tis no time to wait, and load
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 2: my shoulders with a willing freight. Whate'er befalls. Your life
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  Speaker 2: shall be my care. One death or one deliverance, we
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: will share. My hand shall lead our little son, and you,
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  Speaker 2: my faithful consort, shall our steps pursue. Next You, my servants,
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  Speaker 2: heed my strict commands. Without the walls, a ruined temple
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  Speaker 2: stands two series hallow'd once a cypress nigh shoots up
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: her venerable head on high by long religion kept there,
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  Speaker 2: bend thy feet, and in divided parties, let us meet
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 2: our country gods, the relics and the bands. Hold you,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 2: my father, in your guiltless hands. In me tis impious
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: holy things to bear, red as I am with slaughter
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 2: new for war, till in some living stream I cleanse
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: the guilt of dire debate and blood and battles spilt. Thus,
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 2: ordering all that prudence could provide, I clothed my shoulders
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 2: with a lion's hide and yellow spoils. Then, on my
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 2: bending back, the welcome load of my father take. When
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 2: on my better hand Ascanius hung and with unequal paces
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: tripped along. Krousa kept behind. By choice, we stray through
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 2: every dark and every devious way. I, who so bold
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: and dauntless just before the Grecian darts and shocks of
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 2: lances bore at every shadow. Now AM seized with fear,
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 2: not for myself, but for the charges I bear till
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: near the ruined gate. Arrived at last, secure and deeming
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: all the danger past. A frightful noise of trampling feet
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: we hear my father looking through the shades with fear
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: cried out. Haste, Haste, my son. The foes are nigh,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: their swords and shining armor. I descry some hostile god,
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 2: for some unknown offense had sure bereft my mind of
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: better sense. For while through a winding ways, I took
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: my flight and sought the shelter of the gloomy night.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: At last I lost Krousa. Hard to tell if by
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: her fatal destiny she fell, or weary sate or wandering
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: with affright, but she was lost forever to my sight.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 2: I knew not nor reflected till I meet my friends
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: at Ciries, now deserted seat. We met no one was wanting.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: Only she deceived her friends, her son, and wretched me.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: What mad expressions did my tongue refused? Whom did I
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: not of gods and men accuse? This was the fatal
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: blow that pained me more than all I felt from
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: ruined Troy before, Stung with my loss and raving with despair,
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 2: abandoning my now forgotten care of counsel, comfort and of hope,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 2: bereft my sire, my son, my country, gods, I left,
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 2: and shining armor once again, I sheathe my limbs, not
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 2: feeling wounds nor fearing death. Then headlong to the burning walls,
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 2: I run and seek the danger I was forced to shun.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: I tread my former tracks through the night, explore every passage,
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: every street I crossed before. All things were full of
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 2: horror and affright and dreadful, even the silence of the night.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: Then to my father's house, I make repair, with some
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: small glimpses of hope, to find her there instead of her,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 2: the cruel greeks I met. The house was filled with foes,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: with flames beset driven on the wings of winds, whole
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 2: sheets of fire through air transported to the roof, aspire
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 2: from whence to Priam's palace, I resort and searched the
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 2: citadel and desert court. Then, unobserved, I passed by Juno's church.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 2: The guard of Grecians had possessed the porch. There Phoenix
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: and Ulysses watch prey, and thither all the wealth of Troy,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: convey the spoils which they from ransacked houses brought, and
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 2: golden bowles from burning altars, called the tables of the gods,
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 2: the purple vests, the people's treasure, and the pomp of priests.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 2: A rank of wretched youths, with pinioned hands and captive matrons,
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: in long order stands. Then, with ungoverned madness, I proclaim
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: through all the silent street Kreus's name, Kreysa. Still I call.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 2: At length she hears, and sudden, through the shades of
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: night appears appears no more Krousa, nor my wife, but
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 2: a pale specter larger than the life. Aghast. Astonished and struck,
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: dumb with fear, I stood like bristles rose my stiffened hair.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: Then thus the ghost began to soothe my grief.