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Vergil, Aeneis, 3.84-3.99
Templa dei saxo venerabar structa vetusto: who sat in conclave with my kingly sire
Da propriam, Thymbraee, domum; da moenia fessis and bade them speak their reverend counsel forth.
et genus et mansuram urbem; serva altera Troiae All found one voice; to leave that land of sin
Pergama, reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli. where foul abomination had profaned
Quem sequimur? Quove ire iubes? Ubi ponere sedes? a stranger's right; and once more to resign
Da, pater, augurium, atque animis inlabere nostris. our fleet unto the tempest and the wave.
Vix ea fatus eram: tremere omnia visa repente But fit and solemn funeral rites were paid
liminaque laurusque dei, totusque moveri to Polydorus. A high mound we reared
mons circum, et mugire adytis cortina reclusis. of heaped-up earth, and to his honored shade
Submissi petimus terram, et vox fertur ad auris: built a perpetual altar, sadly dressed
Dardanidae duri, quae vos a stirpe parentum in cypress dark and purple pall of woe.
prima tulit tellus, eadem vos ubere laeto Our Ilian women wailed with loosened hair;
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: new milk was sprinkled from a foaming cup
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris and from the shallow bowl fresh blood out-poured
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis. upon the sacred ground. So in its tomb
Haec Phoebus; mixtoque ingens exorta tumultu we laid his ghost to rest, and loudly sang

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1. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.16-3.72, 3.78, 3.80-3.81, 3.85-3.102 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.17. where once was Troy . An exile on the seas 3.26. et my first walls, though partial Fate opposed 3.29. Unto Dione's daughter, and all gods 3.30. who blessed our young emprise, due gifts were paid; 3.34. a mound was seen, and on the summit grew 3.35. a copse of corner and a myrtle tree 3.36. with spear-like limbs outbranched on every side. 3.48. the mystery within,—but yet again 3.57. a moaning and a wail from that deep grave 3.62. was kin of thine. This blood is not of trees. 3.63. Haste from this murderous shore, this land of greed. 3.64. O, I am Polydorus! Haste away! 3.65. Here was I pierced; a crop of iron spears 3.66. has grown up o'er my breast, and multiplied 3.67. to all these deadly javelins, keen and strong.” 3.68. Then stood I, burdened with dark doubt and fear 3.78. he scorned all honor and did murder foul 3.80. on all the gold. O, whither at thy will 3.81. curst greed of gold, may mortal hearts be driven? 3.85. and bade them speak their reverend counsel forth. 3.86. All found one voice; to leave that land of sin 3.87. where foul abomination had profaned 3.88. a stranger's right; and once more to resign 3.89. our fleet unto the tempest and the wave. 3.90. But fit and solemn funeral rites were paid 3.91. to Polydorus. A high mound we reared 3.92. of heaped-up earth, and to his honored shade 3.93. built a perpetual altar, sadly dressed 3.94. in cypress dark and purple pall of woe. 3.95. Our Ilian women wailed with loosened hair; 3.96. new milk was sprinkled from a foaming cup 3.97. and from the shallow bowl fresh blood out-poured 3.98. upon the sacred ground. So in its tomb 3.99. we laid his ghost to rest, and loudly sang 3.102. looked safe and fair, and o'er its tranquil plain
2. Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.425 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation To The Greeks, 2.11 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
4. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 1.25 (2nd cent. CE 1.25. I FOUND the following to be an account of the sage's stay in Babylon, and of all we need to know about Babylon. The fortifications of Babylon extend 480 stadia and form a complete circle, and its wall is three half plethrons high, but less than a plethron [ 1] in breadth. And it is cut asunder by the river Euphrates, into halves of similar shape; and there passes underneath the river an extraordinary bridge which joins together by an unseen passage the palaces on either bank. For it is said that a woman, Medea, was formerly queen of those parts, who spanned the river underneath in a manner in which no river was ever bridged before; for she got stones, it is said, and copper and pitch and all that men have discovered for use in masonry under water, and she piled these up along the banks of the river. Then she diverted the stream into lakes; and as soon as the river was dry, she dug down two fathoms, and made a hollow tunnel, which she caused to debouch into the palaces on either bank like a subterranean grotto; and she roofed it on a level with the bed of the stream. The foundations were thus made stable, and also the walls of the tunnel; but as the pitch required water in order to set as hard as stone, the Euphrates was let in again on the roof while still soft, and so the junction stood solid. And the palaces are roofed with bronze, and a glitter goes off from them; but the chambers of the women and of the men and the porticos are adorned partly with silver, and partly with golden tapestries or curtains, and partly with solid gold in the form of pictures; but the subjects embroidered on the stuffs are taken by them from Hellenic story, Andromedas being represented, and Amymonae, and you see Perseus frequently. And they delight in Orpheus, perhaps out of regard for his peaked cap and breeches, for it cannot be for his music or the songs with which he charmed and soothed others. And woven into the pattern you perceive Datis tearing up Naxos out of the sea, and Artaphernes beleaguering Eretria, and such battles of Xerxes as he said he won. For there is, of course, the occupation of Athens and Thermopylae, and other pictures still more to the Median taste, such as rivers drained from off the land and a bridge over the sea and the piercing of Athos. But they say that they also visited a man's apartment of which the roof had been carried up in the form of a dome, to resemble in a manner the heavens, and that it was roofed with lapis lazuli, a stone that is very blue and like heaven to the eye; and there were images of the gods, which they worship, fixed aloft, and looking like golden figures shining out of the ether. And it is here that the king gives judgment, and golden wrynecks are hung from the ceiling, to remind him of Adrastea, the goddess of justice, and to engage him not to exalt himself above humanity. These figures the Magi themselves say they arranged; for they have access to the palace, and they call them the tongues of the gods.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeneas	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
apollo	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
banquets	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
cato, m. porcius (of utica, the younger)	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
delos	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
enthusiastic prophecy	Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 67
error	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
fighting (of vices and virtue)	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
fish	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
frugality	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
horses	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
island	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
iynges	Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 67
lucilius iunior	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
magi	Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 67
magnificence	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
mullets	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
oysters	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
pleasure	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
tiberius, iulius caesar augustus	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
tripods and divination, at delos	Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 67
tripods and divination, at delphi'	Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 67
troy	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
tubero, q. aelius	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
virtue	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164
wandering	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 265
wise man	Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 164