Aeneid
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or if voluptuous Eryx and the throne
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of good Acestes be your journey's end,
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I send you safe; I speed you on your way.
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But if in these my realms ye will abide,
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associates of my power, behold, I build
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this city for your own! Choose haven here
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for your good ships. Beneath my royal sway
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Trojan and Tyrian equal grace will find.
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But O, that this same storm had brought your King.
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Aeneas, hither! I will bid explore
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our Libya's utmost bound, where haply he
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in wilderness or hamlet wanders lost.”
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By these fair words to joy profoundly stirred,
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Father Aeneas and Achates brave
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to cast aside the cloud that wrapped them round
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yearned greatly; and Achates to his King
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spoke thus: “O goddess-born, in thy wise heart
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what purpose rises now? Lo! All is well!
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Thy fleet and followers are safe at land.
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One only comes not, who before our eyes
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sank in the soundless sea. All else fulfils
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thy mother's prophecy.” Scarce had he spoke
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when suddenly that overmantling cloud
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was cloven, and dissolved in lucent air;
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forth stood Aeneas. A clear sunbeam smote
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his god-like head and shoulders. Venus' son
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of his own heavenly mother now received
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youth's glowing rose, an eye of joyful fire,
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and tresses clustering fair. 'T is even so
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the cunning craftsman unto ivory gives
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new beauty, or with circlet of bright gold
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encloses silver or the Parian stone.
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Thus of the Queen he sued, while wonderment
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fell on all hearts. “Behold the man ye seek,
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for I am here! Aeneas, Trojan-born,
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brought safely hither from yon Libyan seas!
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O thou who first hast looked with pitying eye
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on Troy's unutterable grief, who even to us
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(escaped our Grecian victor, and outworn
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by all the perils land and ocean know),
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to us, bereft and ruined, dost extend
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such welcome to thy kingdom and thy home!
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I have no power, Dido, to give thanks
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to match thine ample grace; nor is there power
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in any remnant of our Dardan blood,
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now fled in exile o'er the whole wide world.
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May gods on high (if influence divine
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bless faithful lives, or recompense be found
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in justice and thy self-approving mind)
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give thee thy due reward. What age was blest
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by such a birth as thine? What parents proud
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such offspring bore? O, while the rivers run
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to mingle with the sea, while shadows pass
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along yon rounded hills from vale to vale,
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and while from heaven's unextinguished fire
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the stars be fed—so Iong thy glorious name,
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thy place illustrious and thy virtue's praise,
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abide undimmed.—Yet I myself must go
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to lands I know not where.” After this word
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his right hand clasped his Ioved Ilioneus,
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his left Serestus; then the comrades all,
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brave Gyas, brave Cloanthus, and their peers.
- 1.613.863
Sidonian Dido felt her heart stand still
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when first she looked on him; and thrilled again
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to hear what vast adventure had befallen
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so great a hero. Thus she welcomed him:
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“What chance, O goddess-born, o'er danger's path
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impels? What power to this wild coast has borne?
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Art thou Aeneas, great Anchises' son,
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whom lovely Venus by the Phrygian stream
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of Simois brought forth unto the day?
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Now I bethink me of when Teucer came
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to Sidon, exiled, and of Belus' power
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desired a second throne. For Belus then,
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our worshipped sire, despoiled the teeming land
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of Cyprus, as its conqueror and king.
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And since that hour I oft have heard the tale
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of fallen Troy, of thine own noble name,
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and of Achaean kings. Teucer was wont,
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although their foe, to praise the Teucrian race,
- 1.613.881
and boasted him of that proud lineage sprung.
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Therefore, behold, our portals are swung wide
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for all your company. I also bore
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hard fate like thine. I too was driven of storms
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and after long toil was allowed at last
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to call this land my home. O, I am wise
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in sorrow, and I help all suffering souls!”
- 1.613.888
So saying, she bade Aeneas welcome take
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beneath her royal roof, and to the gods
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made sacrifice in temples, while she sent
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unto the thankful Trojans on the shore
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a score of bulls, and of huge, bristling swine,
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a herd of a whole hundred, and a flock
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of goodly lambs, a hundred, who ran close
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beside the mother-ewes: and all were given
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in joyful feast to please the Heavenly Powers.
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Her palace showed a monarch's fair array
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all glittering and proud, and feasts were spread
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within the ample court. Rich broideries
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hung deep incarnadined with Tyrian skill;
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