If gods are gods, and not invok'd in vain; Yet spare the relics of the Trojan train! Yet from the ...
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And order'd you the prize without the lot. Accept this goblet, rough with figur'd gold, Which Thra...
Not one dares answer to the proud demand. Presuming of his force, with sparkling eyes Already he d...
Both urge their oars, and fortune both supplies, And both perhaps had shar'd an equal prize; When ...
To great Anchises' tomb; which when he found, He pour'd to Bacchus, on the hallow'd ground, Two bo...
"Go, Barce, call my sister. Let her care The solemn rites of sacrifice prepare; The sheep, and all...
The yawning earth rebellows to her call, Pale ghosts ascend, and mountain ashes fall. Witness, ye ...
Chides my delay, and fills my soul with fears; And young Ascanius justly may complain Of his defra...
Do thy broad hands the forky lightnings lance? Thine are the bolts, or the blind work of chance? A...
Her falt'ring tongue forbids to speak the rest. When day declines, and feasts renew the night, Sti...
And in deserted caverns lodge by night; Oft from the rocks a dreadful prospect see Of the huge Cyc...
Conduct my steps to Tiber's happy shore; If ever I ascend the Latian throne, And build a city I ma...
Or, in less compass, Troy's epitome. A riv'let by the name of Xanthus ran, And I embrace the Scaea...
That Phrygian gods to Latium should be brought, Or who believ'd what mad Cassandra taught? Now let...
The God of Arms, who rules the Thracian coast, That they, or he, these omens would avert, Release ...