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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VII Chapter 30: Caeculus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Nor was Praeneste's founder absent there, by Vulcan sired, among the herds and hinds, and on a hearth-stone found (so runs the tale each pious age repeats) king Caeculus with rustic legions gathered from afar: from steep Praeneste and the Gabian vale to Juno dear, from Anio's cold stream, from upland Hernic rocks and foaming rills, from rich Anagnia's pastures, and the plain whence Amasenus pours his worshipped wave. Not all of armor boast, and seldom sound the chariot and shield; but out of slings they hurl blue balls of lead, or in one hand a brace of javelins bear; pulled o'er their brows are hoods of tawny wolf-skin; as they march the left foot leaves a barefoot track behind, a rawhide sandal on the right they wear. |
678-690 Nec Praenestinae fundator defuit urbis, Volcano genitum pecora inter agrestia regem inuentumque focis omnis quem credidit aetas, Caeculus. hunc legio late comitatur agrestis: quique altum Praeneste uiri quique arua Gabinae Iunonis gelidumque Anienem et roscida riuis Hernica saxa colunt, quos diues Anagnia pascis, quos Amasene pater. non illis omnibus arma nec clipei currusue sonant; pars maxima glandes liuentis plumbi spargit, pars spicula gestat bina manu, fuluosque lupi de pelle galeros tegmen habent capiti; uestigia nuda sinistri instituere pedis, crudus tegit altera pero. |