The national endowment for the humanities provided support for entering this text. However, i would like, eventually, to get on the aeneid. Meanwhile the king of omnipotent olympus addressed juno watching the fight from a brown cloud. You, no longer anxious, will receive him one day in heaven, burdened with eastern spoils. I sing of arms and of a man, who first came from the shores of troy. Take these weapons and draw an avenging arrow from the quiver, and if anyone violates her sacred flesh by wounding her, trojan or italian, pay me with their equal punishment in blood. Juno is said to have cherished this one city more than all lands with samus having been esteemed less.
Book 5 then takes place on sicily and centers on the funeral games that. The aeneid virgil a translation into english prose by as kline. From this glorious source a trojan caesar will be born, who will bound the empire with ocean, his fame with the stars, augustus, a julius, his name descended from the great iulus. The aeneid is a latin epic poem, written by virgil between 29 and 19 bc, that tells the legendary story of aeneas, a trojan who travelled to italy, where he became the ancestor of the romans. The first six of the poems twelve books tell the story of aeneass wanderings. Anne mahoney, overview of latin syntax, sentence construction. Page, the editor of the latin text which this translation has. Book twelve xii of the aeneid, which is translated in full below.
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