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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book V Chapter 6: Participants of the rowing game | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
First, side by side, with sturdy, rival oars, four noble galleys, pride of all the fleet, come forward to contend. The straining crew of Mnestheus bring his speedy Pristis on, -- Mnestheus in Italy erelong the sire of Memmius' noble line. Brave Gyas guides his vast Chimaera, a colossal craft, a floating city, by a triple row of Dardan sailors manned, whose banks of oars in triple order rise. Sergestus, he of whom the Sergian house shall after spring, rides in his mighty Centaur. Next in line, on sky-blue Scylla proud Cloanthus rides -- whence thy great stem, Cluentius of Rome! |
114-123 Prima pares ineunt grauibus certamina remis quattuor ex omni delectae classe carinae. uelocem Mnestheus agit acri remige Pristim, mox Italus Mnestheus, genus a quo nomine Memmi, ingentemque Gyas ingenti mole Chimaeram, urbis opus, triplici pubes quam Dardana uersu impellunt, terno consurgunt ordine remi; Sergestusque, domus tenet a quo Sergia nomen, Centauro inuehitur magna, Scyllaque Cloanthus caerulea, genus unde tibi, Romane Cluenti. |