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
[113] 22:10. =Typhœan.= Thunderbolts of Jove, called Typhœan because they
slew the giant Typhœus at the time of the great fight for the throne of
heaven between Jupiter and the Olympian gods and “the earth-born Titan
brood.”
“Phœbus resigns his darts, and Jove
His thunder to the god of love.”
—DENHAM, _Friendship_.
[114] 22:38. =Poison.=
“Through her bones the false instilled fire
Did spred it selfe and venime close inspire.”
—SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_.
[115] 23:4. =Slumber.=
“She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven
That slid into my soul.”
—COLERIDGE, _Ancient Mariner_.
[116] 23:29. =Gazing.=
“And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung.”
—TENNYSON, _Locksley Hall_.
[117] 23:35. =Lap.=
“But both Dione honored they and Cupid,
That as her mother, this one as her son,
And said that he had sat in Dido’s lap.”
—DANTE, _Paradiso_.
[118] 24:6. =Lamps.=
“As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows,
And ever-living lamps depend in rows.”
—POPE, _Temple of Fame_.
[119] 24:15. =Bacchus.= Son of Jupiter and Semele, god of wine, and, by
metonymy, used to mean wine. (Name of god for his realm, as Vulcan for
fire, etc.).
“Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest,
Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.”
—GOLDSMITH, _Deserted Village_.
[120] 24:25. =Atlas.= A king of Mauretania; father of the Pleiades; he
supported the heavens on his shoulders. He was skilled in astronomy.
Personification of Mount Atlas.
[121] 24:25. =Song.=
“He sung the secret seeds of Nature’s frame:
How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame,
Fell through the mighty void, and in their fall
Were blindly gathered in this goodly ball.
The tender soil, then stiff’ning by degrees,
Shut from the bounded earth, the bounding seas.
Then earth and ocean various forms disclose;
And a new sun to the new world arose;
And mists, condensed to clouds, obscure the sky,
And clouds, dissolved, the thirsty ground supply.
The rising trees the lofty mountains grace;
The lofty mountains feed the savage race,
Yet few, and strangers, in th’ unpeopled place.
From thence the birth of man the song pursued,
And how the world was lost, and how renewed.”
—DRYDEN, Translation of Ecl. VI. Cf. Æn. VI.
BOOK II
[122] 26:8. =Myrmidons or the Dolopes.= The soldiers of Achilles, who was
the fiercest of the Greeks.
[123] 26:9. =Ulysses.= King of “Ithaca’s rocky isle,” husband of
“faithful Penelope.” His wanderings are the subject of Homer’s _Odyssey_.
Homer’s stock epithet is “the very crafty.”
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