With banish'd gods, and with a baffled host, Yet now aspir'd to conquest of the state, And claim'd...
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Laris and Thymbrus, on the Latian plain; So wondrous like in feature, shape, and size, As caus'd a...
I long'd to join in friendship's holy bands Our mutual hearts, and plight our mutual hands. I firs...
Apollo's priest, Emonides, was near; His holy fillets on his front appear; Glitt'ring in arms, he ...
And bore beyond the strength decrepid age supplied. Oft, since he breath'd his last, in dead of nig...
Have doom'd our ships to seek the Latian land. To these abodes our fleet Apollo sends; Here Dardan...
Now, Trojan, take the way thy fates afford; Assume thy courage, and unsheathe thy sword." She said...
On the smooth pavement of an empty court; The wooden engine flies and whirls about, Admir'd, with ...
With hunger press'd, devours the pleasing bait. Long draughts of sleep his monstrous limbs enslave;...
At first, while fortune favor'd neither side, The fight with clubs and burning brands was tried; B...
The sounding whip and brandishes her snakes, And the pale sinner, with her sisters, takes. Then, o...
To seek the shores by destiny design'd."- "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit...
To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war by thy own majestic way; To tame...
The priest on skins of off'rings takes his ease, And nightly visions in his slumber sees; A swarm ...
To great Anchises' tomb; which when he found, He pour'd to Bacchus, on the hallow'd ground, Two bo...