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
—GOLDSMITH, _Deserted Village_.
[49] 5:29. =Eurus.= The east wind. It is the poet’s way to single out one
wind and use it as general word for winds. One example of the use of the
specific for the generic.
[50] 5:33. =Routs.=
“Thou frownest, and old Æolus thy foe
Skulks to his cavern, ’mid the gruff complaint
Of all his rebel tempests. Dark clouds faint
When, from thy diadem, a silver gleam
Slants over blue dominion.”
—KEATS, _Endymion_.
[51] 5:34. =Cymothoë and Triton.= Lesser sea deities.
“From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn.”
—HOLMES, _Chambered Nautilus_.
[52] 5:37. =Trident.=
“It seem’d as there the British Neptune stood,
With all his hosts of waters at command,
Beneath them to submit th’ officious flood;
And with his trident shov’d them off the sand.”
—DRYDEN, _Annus Mirabilis_.
[53] 6:4. =Weapon.=
“Rage prompted them at length, and found them arms
Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose.”
—MILTON, _Paradise Lost_.
[54] 6:15. =Haven.=
“It was a still
And calmy bay, on the one side sheltered
With the brode shadow of an hoarie hill;
On th’ other side an high rock towred still,
That twixt them both a pleasaunt port they made,
And did like an halfe theatre fulfill.”
—SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_.
“And overhead upgrew
Insuperable height of loftiest shade,
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,
A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend
Shade above shade, a woody theatre
Of stateliest view.”
—MILTON, _Paradise Lost_.
“Its uplands sloping deck the mountain’s side,
Woods over woods in gay theatric pride.”
—GOLDSMITH, _Traveller_.
“In one they find a lone sequestered place,
Where, to a crescent curved, the shore extends
Two moony horns, that in their sweep embrace
A spacious bay,—a rock the port defends;
Inward it fronts, and broad to ocean bends
Its back, whereon each dashing billow dies,
When the wind rises and the storm descends;
While here and there two lofty crags arise,
Whose towers, far out at sea, salute the sailor’s eyes.
Safe sleep the silent seas beneath; above,
Black arching woods o’ershade the circled scene:
Within, a grotto opens, in the grove,
Pleasant with flowers, with moss, with ivies green,
And waters warbling in the depths unseen;
Needed nor twisted rope nor anchor there
For weary ships.”
—TASSO, _Jerusalem Delivered_.
[55] 6:25. =Cable.=
“And there is a safe haven where no need
Of cable is; no anchor there is cast,
Nor hawsers fastened to the strand.”
—HOMER, _Odyssey_.
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