The Aeneid by Virgil & Robert Fagles
Author:Virgil & Robert Fagles
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Classical Literature, Gods, Ancient Greece, Legend, Myth
ISBN: 9780143106296
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1742-01-01T15:00:00+00:00
With those words on his lips, he gave his wife
the embraces both desired, then sinking limp
on her breast he courted peaceful sleep
that stole throughout his body.
And then,
when the first deep rest had driven sleep away
and the chariot of Night had wheeled past mid-career,
that hour a housewife rises, faced with scratching out
a living with loom and Minervaâs homespun crafts,
and rakes the ashes first to awake the sleeping fires,
adding night to her working hours, and sets her women
toiling on at the long dayâs chores by torchlightâ
and all to keep the bed of her husband chaste
and rear her little boysâso early, briskly,
in such good time the fire-god rises up
from his downy bed to labor at his forge.
Not far
from Aeolian Lipare flanked by Sicilyâs coast,
an island of smoking boulders surges from the sea.
Deep below it a vast cavern thunders, hollowed out
like vaults under Etna, forming the Cyclopsâ forges.
You can hear the groaning anvils boom with mighty strokes,
the hot steel ingots screeching steam in the cavernâs troughs
and fires panting hard in the furnaceâVulcanâs home,
it bears the name Vulcania.
Here the firegod dove from heavenâs heights.
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