The Æneid of Virgil translated into English proseVirgil
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The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose
Virgil
Aeneas (Legendary character); Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English; Legends -- Rome
afar into the salt waves, and pour out a clear stream of
wine.” He said, and deep down among the billows there 10
heard him all the Nereids and Phorcus’ train, and maiden
Panopea, and father Portunus[189] himself, with his own great
hand, pushed the ship as she moved; fleeter than south-wind
or winged arrow she flies to the land and is lodged
already deep in the haven. 15
Then Anchises’ son, duly summoning the whole company,
proclaims by a loud-voiced herald Cloanthus conqueror,
and drapes his brow with green bay; he gives each
crew a gift at its choice, three bullocks, and wine, and the
present of a great talent of silver. To the captains themselves 20
he further gives especial honours, to the conqueror
a gold-broidered scarf, round which runs a length of Melibœan
purple with a double Mæander; enwoven therein is the
royal boy[190] on leafy Ida, plying the swift stag with the javelin
and the chase, keen of eye, his chest seeming to heave; 25
then, swooping down from Ida, the bearer of Jove’s armour
has snatched him up aloft in his crooked talons, while his
aged guardians are stretching in vain their hands to heaven,
and the barking of the hounds streams furious to the sky.
But for him whose prowess gained him the second place 30
there is a cuirass of linked chain mail, three-threaded with
gold, which the hero himself had stripped with a conqueror’s
hand from Demoleos on swift Simois’ bank under
the shadow of Troy; this he gives the warrior for his own, 35
a glory and a defence in the battle. Scarce could the two
servants, Phegeus and Sagaris, support its many folds,
pushing shoulder to shoulder; yet Demoleos, in his day,
with it on his breast, used to drive the Trojans in flight
before him. The third present he makes a pair of brazen
cauldrons, and two cups of wrought silver, rough with
fretwork.
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