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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book I Chapter 35: Gifts of Aeneas | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Aeneas now (for love in his paternal heart spoke loud and gave no rest) bade swift Achates run to tell Ascanius all, and from the ship to guide him upward to the town, -- for now the father's whole heart for Ascanius yearned. And gifts he bade them bring, which had been saved in Ilium's fall: a richly broidered cloak heavy with golden emblems; and a veil by leaves of saffron lilies bordered round, which Argive Helen o'er her beauty threw, her mother Leda's gift most wonderful, and which to Troy she bore, when flying far in lawless wedlock from Mycenae's towers; a sceptre, too, once fair Ilione's, eldest of Priam's daughters; and round pearls strung in a necklace, and a double crown of jewels set in gold. These gifts to find, Achates to the tall ships sped away. Event: Aeneas in Carthago |
643-656 Aeneas (neque enim patrius consistere mentem passus amor) rapidum ad navis praemittit Achaten, Ascanio ferat haec, ipsumque ad moenia ducat; omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis. Munera praeterea, Iliacis erepta ruinis, ferre iubet, pallam signis auroque rigentem, et circumtextum croceo velamen acantho, ornatus Argivae Helenae, quos illa Mycenis, Pergama cum peteret inconcessosque hymenaeos, extulerat, matris Ledae mirabile donum: praeterea sceptrum, Ilione quod gesserat olim, maxima natarum Priami, colloque monile bacatum, et duplicem gemmis auroque coronam. Haec celerans ita ad naves tendebat Achates. |