And now the looked-for day was come with simple light and sweet, And Phaeton's horses shining bright the ninth dawn in did bear. Fame and the name Acestes had the neighbouring people stir To fill the shore with joyful throng, Æneas' folk to see: But some were dight amid the games their strife-fellows to be. There first before the eyes of men the gifts to come they lay Amid the course; as hallowed bowls, and garlands of green bay, 110 And palms, the prize of victory, weapons, and raiment rolled In purple, and a talent's weight of silver and of gold; Then blast of horn from midst the mound the great games halloweth in: Four ships from all the fleet picked out will first the race begin With heavy oars; well matched are they for speed and rowers' tale: Hereof did Mnestheus' eager oars drive on the speedy Whale, Mnestheus to be of Italy, whence cometh Memmius' name. The huge Chimæra's mountain mass was Gyas set to tame; There on that city of a ship threesome its rowing plies The Dardan youth; the banks of oars in threefold order rise. 120 Sergestus next, the name whereof the Sergian house yet bears, Is ferried by the Centaur great: last in blue Scylla steers Cloanthus, whence the name of thee, Cluentius, man of Rome. Far mid the sea a rock there is, facing the shore-line's foam, Which, beat by overtoppling waves, is drowned and hidden oft, What time the stormy North-west hides the stars in heaven aloft: But otherwhiles it lies in peace when nought the sea doth move, And riseth up a meadow fair that sunning sea-gulls love. There a green goal Æneas raised, dight of a leafy oak, To be a sign of turning back to that sea-faring folk, 130 That fetching compass round the same their long course they might turn.