Aeneid
- 1.65.101
to mate thy noble worth; she at thy side
- 1.65.102
shall pass long, happy years, and fruitful bring
- 1.65.103
her beauteous offspring unto thee their sire.”
- 1.76.104
Then Aeolus: “'T is thy sole task, O Queen,
- 1.76.105
to weigh thy wish and will. My fealty
- 1.76.106
thy high behest obeys. This humble throne
- 1.76.107
is of thy gift. Thy smiles for me obtain
- 1.76.108
authority from Jove. Thy grace concedes
- 1.76.109
my station at your bright Olympian board,
- 1.76.110
and gives me lordship of the darkening storm.”
- 1.81.111
Replying thus, he smote with spear reversed
- 1.81.112
the hollow mountain's wall; then rush the winds
- 1.81.113
through that wide breach in long, embattled line,
- 1.81.114
and sweep tumultuous from land to land:
- 1.81.115
with brooding pinions o'er the waters spread,
- 1.81.116
east wind and south, and boisterous Afric gale
- 1.81.117
upturn the sea; vast billows shoreward roll;
- 1.81.118
the shout of mariners, the creak of cordage,
- 1.81.119
follow the shock; low-hanging clouds conceal
- 1.81.120
from Trojan eyes all sight of heaven and day;
- 1.81.121
night o'er the ocean broods; from sky to sky
- 1.81.122
the thunders roll, the ceaseless lightnings glare;
- 1.81.123
and all things mean swift death for mortal man.
- 1.81.124
Straightway Aeneas, shuddering with amaze,
- 1.81.125
groaned loud, upraised both holy hands to Heaven,
- 1.81.126
and thus did plead: “O thrice and four times blest,
- 1.81.127
ye whom your sires and whom the walls of Troy
- 1.81.128
looked on in your last hour! O bravest son
- 1.81.129
Greece ever bore, Tydides! O that I
- 1.81.130
had fallen on Ilian fields, and given this life
- 1.81.131
struck down by thy strong hand! where by the spear
- 1.81.132
of great Achilles, fiery Hector fell,
- 1.81.133
and huge Sarpedon; where the Simois
- 1.81.134
in furious flood engulfed and whirled away
- 1.81.135
so many helms and shields and heroes slain!”
- 1.102.136
While thus he cried to Heaven, a shrieking blast
- 1.102.137
smote full upon the sail. Up surged the waves
- 1.102.138
to strike the very stars; in fragments flew
- 1.102.139
the shattered oars; the helpless vessel veered
- 1.102.140
and gave her broadside to the roaring flood,
- 1.102.141
where watery mountains rose and burst and fell.
- 1.102.142
Now high in air she hangs, then yawning gulfs
- 1.102.143
lay bare the shoals and sands o'er which she drives.
- 1.102.144
Three ships a whirling south wind snatched and flung
- 1.102.145
on hidden rocks,—altars of sacrifice
- 1.102.146
Italians call them, which lie far from shore
- 1.102.147
a vast ridge in the sea; three ships beside
- 1.102.148
an east wind, blowing landward from the deep,
- 1.102.149
drove on the shallows,—pitiable sight,—
- 1.102.150
and girdled them in walls of drifting sand.
- 1.102.151
That ship, which, with his friend Orontes, bore
- 1.102.152
the Lycian mariners, a great, plunging wave
- 1.102.153
struck straight astern, before Aeneas' eyes.
- 1.102.154
Forward the steersman rolled and o'er the side
- 1.102.155
fell headlong, while three times the circling flood
- 1.102.156
spun the light bark through swift engulfing seas.
- 1.102.157
Look, how the lonely swimmers breast the wave!
- 1.102.158
And on the waste of waters wide are seen
- 1.102.159
weapons of war, spars, planks, and treasures rare,
- 1.102.160
once Ilium's boast, all mingled with the storm.
- 1.102.161
Now o'er Achates and Ilioneus,
- 1.102.162
now o'er the ship of Abas or Aletes,
- 1.102.163
bursts the tempestuous shock; their loosened seams
- 1.102.164
yawn wide and yield the angry wave its will.
- 1.124.165
Meanwhile how all his smitten ocean moaned,
- 1.124.166
and how the tempest's turbulent assault
- 1.124.167
had vexed the stillness of his deepest cave,
- 1.124.168
great Neptune knew; and with indignant mien
- 1.124.169
uplifted o'er the sea his sovereign brow.
- 1.124.170
He saw the Teucrian navy scattered far
- 1.124.171
along the waters; and Aeneas' men
- 1.124.172
o'erwhelmed in mingling shock of wave and sky.
- 1.124.173
Saturnian Juno's vengeful stratagem
- 1.124.174
her brother's royal glance failed not to see;
- 1.124.175
and loud to eastward and to westward calling,
- 1.124.176
he voiced this word:“What pride of birth or power
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is yours, ye winds, that, reckless of my will,
- 1.124.178
audacious thus, ye ride through earth and heaven,
- 1.124.179
and stir these mountain waves? Such rebels I—
- 1.124.180
nay, first I calm this tumult! But yourselves
- 1.124.181
by heavier chastisement shall expiate
- 1.124.182
hereafter your bold trespass. Haste away
- 1.124.183
and bear your king this word! Not unto him
- 1.124.184
dominion o'er the seas and trident dread,
- 1.124.185
but unto me, Fate gives. Let him possess
- 1.124.186
wild mountain crags, thy favored haunt and home,
- 1.124.187
O Eurus! In his barbarous mansion there,
- 1.124.188
let Aeolus look proud, and play the king
- 1.124.189
in yon close-bounded prison-house of storms!”
- 1.142.190
He spoke, and swiftlier than his word subdued
- 1.142.191
the swelling of the floods; dispersed afar
- 1.142.192
th' assembled clouds, and brought back light to heaven.
- 1.142.193
Cymothoe then and Triton, with huge toil,
- 1.142.194
thrust down the vessels from the sharp-edged reef;
- 1.142.195
while, with the trident, the great god's own hand
- 1.142.196
assists the task; then, from the sand-strewn shore
- 1.142.197
out-ebbing far, he calms the whole wide sea,
- 1.142.198
and glides light-wheeled along the crested foam.
- 1.142.199
As when, with not unwonted tumult, roars
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in some vast city a rebellious mob,
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