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Acestes Achates Achilles Æneas Alba Longa altars Anchises ancient Apollo arms Ascanius Ausonian beheld blood breast Calchas Carthage chariot clouds coast course Creüsa cruel darts death deep Deiphobus Dido dread earth Eneas Eryx eyes fate father Anchises fear fierce fire flames fleet foaming friends fury gates ghosts goddess gods gold Grecian Greeks groan ground grove hand hath heaven Helenus hero hither honor Ilium illustrious Italy Iülus Jove Juno king land Latium length Libya light limbs lofty Meanwhile midst mighty mind mingled Misenus Mnestheus mountains mournful Mycena Neoptolemus night oars ocean palace Phoebus pious port Priam prophetess queen race rage raised realms rocks sacred sails seat Sergestus shades ships shore sire sister snatched soul spacious stars steeds stood sword tears temple thee thou Thracian towers Trojan Troy Tyrians Ulysses vast Venus virgin voice walls waves whence whole winds wings woods words youth
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Page 207 - The ghosts in crowds around him stand on the right and left: nor are they satisfied with seeing him once; they wish to detain him long, to come into close conference with him, and learn the reasons of his visit. But as soon as the Grecian chiefs and Agamemnon's battalions saw the hero, and his arms gleaming through the shades, they quaked with dire dismay: some turned their backs, as when they fled once to their ships; some raise their slender voices; the scream begun dies in their gasping throats.
Page 197 - Before the vestibule itself, and in the first jaws of hell, Grief and vengeful Cares have placed their couches, and pale Diseases dwell, and disconsolate Old Age, and Fear, and the evil counsellor Famine, and vile, deformed Indigence, forms ghastly to the sight ! and Death, and Toil ; then Sleep, akin to Death, and criminal Joys of the mind ; and in the opposite threshold murderous War, and the iron bedchambers of the Furies, and frantic Discord, having her viperous locks bound with bloody fillets.
Page 198 - Age, and Fear, and the evil counsellor Famine, and vile, deformed Indigence, forms ghastly to the sight ! and Death, and Toil ; then Sleep, akin to Death, and criminal Joys of the mind ; and in the opposite threshold murderous War, and the iron bedchambers of the Furies, and frantic Discord, having her viperous locks bound with bloody fillets. In the midst a gloomy elm displays its boughs and aged arms, which seat vain Dreams are commonly said to haunt, and under every leaf they dwell.
Page 97 - Pope1s translation. harmonious order, and leaves in the cave enclosed by themselves : uncovered they remain in their position, nor recede from their order. But when, upon turning the hinge, a small breath of wind has blown upon them, and the door [by opening] has discomposed the tender leaves, she never afterwards cares to catch the verses as they are fluttering in the hollow cave, nor to recover their situation, or join them together.
Page 199 - ... (for he was amazed and moved with the tumult) thus speaks : O virgin, say, what means that flocking to the river ? what do the ghosts desire? or by what distinction must these recede from the banks, those sweep with oars the livid flood ? To him the aged priestess thus briefly replied : Son of Anchises, undoubted offspring of the gods, you see...
Page 198 - A grim ferryman guards these floods and rivers, Charon, of frightful slovenliness; on whose chin a load of gray hair neglected lies; his eyes are flame: his vestments hang from his shoulders by a knot, with filth overgrown. Himself thrusts on the barge with a pole, and tends the sails, and wafts over the bodies in his iron -colored boat, now in years: but the god is of fresh and green old age.
Page 208 - ... such cruelties? Or who was allowed to exercise such power over you? To me, in that last night, a report was brought that you, tired with the vast slaughter of the Greeks, had fallen at last on a heap of mingled carcasses. Then, with my own hands, I raised to you an empty tomb on the Ehcetean shore, and thrice with loud voice I invoked your manes.
Page 215 - ... a fragrant grove of laurel ; whence from on high the river Eridanus rolls in copious streams through the wood. Here is a band of those who sustained wounds in fighting for their country ; priests who preserved themselves pure and holy, while life remained ; pious poets, who sang in strains worthy of Apollo ; those who improved life by the invention of arts, and who by their worthy deeds made others remember them : all these have their temples crowned with a snow-white fillet. Whom, gathered around,...
Page 200 - ... see, consists of naked and unburied persons : that ferryman is Charon: these, whom the stream carries, are interred; for it is not permitted to transport them over the horrid banks, and hoarse waves, before their bones are quietly lodged in a final abode.
Page 14 - Antenor, escaped from amidst the Greeks, could with safety penetrate the Illyrian gulf, and the inmost realms of Liburnia," and overpass the springs of Timavus ; whence, through nine mouths, with loud echoing from the • mountain, it bursts away a sea impetuous, and sweeps the fields with a roaring deluge. Yet there he built the city of Padua," established a Trojan settlement, gave the nation a name, and set up the arms of Troy.