Aeneid (Hackett Classics) by Virgil & Stanley Lombardo & W. R. Johnson

Author:Virgil & Stanley Lombardo & W. R. Johnson [Lombardo, Stanley & Johnson, W. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2005-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

“You hesitate

To pray, hesitate, Aeneas of Troy?

[65] The great mouths of this thunderstruck hall

Will not open until you pray.”

And she was silent.

Fear seeped like icy water through the Trojans’ bones,

And their lord poured forth his heart in prayer:

“Phoebus, who has always pitied Troy

[70] In its darkest times, who guided the arrow

From Paris’ hand into the body of Achilles,

And who guided me through so many seas

Pounding so many distant shores,

The remote Massylian tribes, the lands

[75] Fringed by the shoals of the Syrtes—

Now at last we have in our grasp

The ever-receding shore of Italy.

May Troy’s fortune follow us no farther.

You also, gods and goddesses

[80] Whom Ilium’s great glory offended,

May now justly spare the Dardan race.

And you, most holy prophetess, who hold

The future in your mind, grant the realm

That has been pledged to me by Fate,

[85] Grant that the Teucrians settle in Italy

With the wandering, harried gods of Troy.

Then to Phoebus and Trivia I will dedicate

A temple of solid marble and holy days

In Phoebus’ name. And a great shrine

[90] Awaits you in our realm, gracious priestess,

An inner sanctum where I will deposit

Your prophecies and the mystic sayings

Told to my people and ordain your priests.

Only do not entrust your verses to leaves,

[95] Playthings swirling when the wind gusts,

But chant them out loud.”

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