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Notes Do not display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VII Chapter 39: Camilla | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Last came Camilla, of the Volscians bred, leading her mail-clad, radiant chivalry; a warrior-virgin, of Minerva's craft of web and distaff, fit for woman's toil, no follower she; but bared her virgin breast to meet the brunt of battle, and her speed left even the winds behind; for she would skim an untouched harvest ere the sickle fell, nor graze the quivering wheat-tops as she ran; or o'er the mid-sea billows' swollen surge so swiftly race, she wet not in the wave her flying feet. For sight of her the youth from field and fortress sped, and matrons grave stood wondering as she passed, well-pleased to see her royal scarf in many a purple fold float off her shining shoulder, her dark hair in golden clasp caught fast, and how she bore for arms a quiver of the Lycian mode, and shepherd's shaft of myrtle tipped with steel. |
803-817 Hos super aduenit Volsca de gente Camilla agmen agens equitum et florentis aere cateruas, bellatrix, non illa colo calathisue Mineruae femineas adsueta manus, sed proelia uirgo dura pati cursuque pedum praeuertere uentos. illa uel intactae segetis per summa uolaret gramina nec teneras cursu laesisset aristas, uel mare per medium fluctu suspensa tumenti ferret iter celeris nec tingeret aequore plantas. illam omnis tectis agrisque effusa iuuentus turbaque miratur matrum et prospectat euntem, attonitis inhians animis ut regius ostro uelet honos leuis umeros, ut fibula crinem auro internectat, Lyciam ut gerat ipsa pharetram et pastoralem praefixa cuspide myrtum. |