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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 5: Start of the games | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Arrived the wished-for day; through cloudless sky the coursers of the Sun's bright-beaming car bore upward the ninth morn. The neighboring folk thronged eager to the shore; some hoped to see Aeneas and his warriors, others fain would their own prowess prove in bout and game. Conspicuous lie the rewards, ranged in sight in the mid-circus; wreaths of laurel green, the honored tripod, coronals of palm for conquerors' brows, accoutrements of war, rare robes of purple stain, and generous weight of silver and of gold. The trumpet's call proclaimed from lofty mound the opening games. |
104-113 Exspectata dies aderat nonamque serena Auroram Phaethontis equi iam luce uehebant, famaque finitimos et clari nomen Acestae excierat; laeto complerant litora coetu uisuri Aeneadas, pars et certare parati. munera principio ante oculos circoque locantur in medio, sacri tripodes uiridesque coronae et palmae pretium uictoribus, armaque et ostro perfusae uestes, argenti aurique talenta; et tuba commissos medio canit aggere ludos. |