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
[19] 2:11. =Achilles.= Son of Peleus, king of Thessaly, and Thetis, a sea
nymph, chief champion of the Greeks before Troy.
[20] 2:22. =Teucrians.= Teucer, an ancient king of Troy; he came to Troy
from Crete. He was father-in-law of Dardanus, and is often called founder
of the Trojans.
[21] 2:23. =Pallas.= Epithet of the Greek goddess Athena. Sometimes
identified with the Latin goddess of wisdom, Minerva.
[22] 2:26. =Ajax.= Oïleus’ son. Had, on the night Troy was taken,
assaulted Priam’s daughter Cassandra, who had taken refuge in Minerva’s
temple.
[23] 2:27. =Jove.= Jupiter, chief of the Olympian gods. Son of Cronos
or Saturnus. He is father omnipotent, father of gods, and king of men.
The lightning and the thunderbolt, fashioned for him by Vulcan, are his
weapons. The eagle is his messenger. Apparently Jupiter, the Sky-father,
is the personification of the sky. Cicero quotes Ennius as follows: “This
shining vault on high which all men call upon in prayer as Jupiter.”
[24] 2:30. =Rock’s.=
“caught in a fierce tempest shall be hurled
Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey
Of rocking whirlwinds.”
—MILTON, _Paradise Lost_.
[25] 2:38. =Æolia.= Home of the winds,—=Lipara=. One of the Æolian
islands north of Sicily.
[26] 2:38. =Cavern.=
“In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls by fits.”
—SHELLEY, _The Cloud_.
[27] 2:38. =Æolus.= King of the winds.
[28] 3:2. =Bond.=
“And wild winds bound within their cell.”
—TENNYSON, _Mariana_.
[29] 3:19. =Tyrrhene sea.= Also Tuscan sea; the part of the Mediterranean
which extended from Liguria to Sicily.
[30] 3:19. =Ilion.= Troy.
[31] 3:30. =Bidding.=
“Father eternal, thine is to decree;
Mine, both in heaven and earth, to do thy will.”
—MILTON, _Paradise Lost_.
[32] 3:36. =Rush forth.=
“Nor slept the winds
Within their stormy caves, but rushed abroad
From the four hinges of the world, and fell
On the vexed wilderness.”
—MILTON, _Paradise Lost_.
“With howling sound, high carnival to keep,
And in wild uproar all embroil both land and deep.”
—TASSO, _Jerusalem Delivered_.
“Then forth it breakes, and with his furious blast
Confounds both land and seas, and skyes doth overcast.”
—SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_.
[33] 3:38. =Fall.=
“The winds, as at their hour of birth,
Leaning upon the ridged sea.”
—TENNYSON.
[34] 4:5. =Daylight.=
“And tosse the deepes, and teare the firmament,
And all the world confound with wide uprore.”
—SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_.
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