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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book XI Chapter 11: The council proceeds | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Soon as the envoys ceased, an answering sound of troubled voices through the council flowed of various note, as when its rocky bed impedes an arrowy stream, and murmurs break from the strait-channelled flood; the fringing shores repeat the tumult of the clamorous wave. But when their hearts and troublous tongues were still, the king [Note 1], invoking first the gods in heaven, thus from a lofty throne his sentence gave: Note 1: king = Latinus |
296-301 Vix ea legati, uariusque per ora cucurrit Ausonidum turbata fremor, ceu saxa morantur cum rapidos amnis, fit clauso gurgite murmur uicinaeque fremunt ripae crepitantibus undis. ut primum placati animi et trepida ora quierunt, praefatus diuos solio rex infit ab alto: |