The Works of Virgil Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With Scythians, expert in the dart and bow. ..: . And here the tam'd Euphrates humbly glides; And there the Rhine submits her swelling tides, 969 And proud Araxes, whom no bridge could bind. The Danes' unconquer'd offspring march behind; And Morini, the last of human kind. These figures, on the shield divinely wrought, By Vulcan labour'd, and by Venus brought, With joy and wonder fill the hero's thought. ' 975 Unknown the names, he yet admires the grace, And bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race. . -, ';'.) '."" u; .: ') iMj'Ol'i ..'li! .'i ' orl." chapter{Section 4N E I BOOK IX. A; ARGUMENT. Turnus takes advantage of ./Encus's absence, fires some of his ships (which are transformed into sea-nymphs), and assaults his camp. The Trojans, reduced to the last extremities, send Nisus and Eurya- lus to recall yEneas; which furnishes the poet with that admirable episode of their friendship, generosity, and the conclusion of their adventures. these affairs in distant places pass'd, The various Iris Juno sends with haste, To find bold Turnus, who, with anxious thought, The secret shade of his great grandsire sought. Retir'd alone she found the daring man, 5 And op'd her rosy lips, and thus began: " What none of all the gods could grant thy vows ? That, Turnus, this auspicious day bestows. jEneas, gone to seek th' Arcadian prince, Has left the Trojan camp without defence; 10 And, short of succours there, employs his pains In parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains. Now snatch an hour that favours thy designs; Unite thy forces, and attack their lines." This said, on equal wings she pois'd her weight, 15 And form'd a radiant rainbow in her flight. The Daunian hero lifts his hands and eyes, And thus invokes the goddess as she flies: " Iris, the ...