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Vergil, Aeneis, 6.126
Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno; Through Italy ; the cause of so much ill

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1. Homer, Odyssey, 11.24-11.43, 11.487-11.491 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, On Divination, 2.76 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.76. Sed de hoc loco plura in aliis, nunc hactenus. Externa enim auguria, quae sunt non tam artificiosa quam superstitiosa, videamus. Omnibus fere avibus utuntur, nos admodum paucis; alia illis sinistra sunt, alia nostris. Solebat ex me Deiotarus percontari nostri augurii disciplinam, ego ex illo sui. Di immortales! quantum differebat! ut quaedam essent etiam contraria. Atque ille iis semper utebatur, nos, nisi dum a populo auspicia accepta habemus, quam multum iis utimur? Bellicam rem administrari maiores nostri nisi auspicato noluerunt; quam multi anni sunt, cum bella a proconsulibus et a propraetoribus administrantur 2.76. But we shall discuss the latter point at greater length in other discourses; let us dismiss it for the present.Now let us examine augury as practised among foreign nations, whose methods are not so artificial as they are superstitious. They employ almost all kinds of birds, we only a few; they regard some signs as favourable, we, others. Deiotarus used to question me a great deal about our system of augury, and I him about that of his country. Ye gods! how much they differed! So much that in some cases they were directly the reverse of each other. He employed auspices constantly, we never do except when the duty of doing so is imposed by a vote of the people. Our ancestors would not undertake any military enterprise without consulting the auspices; but now, for many years, our wars have been conducted by pro-consuls and pro-praetors, who do not have the right to take auspices.
3. Cicero, Republic, 6.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 6.13. Sed quo sis, Africane, alacrior ad tutandam rem publicam, sic habeto: omnibus, qui patriam conservaverint, adiuverint, auxerint, certum esse in caelo definitum locum, ubi beati aevo sempiterno fruantur; nihil est enim illi principi deo, qui omnem mundum regit, quod quidem in terris fiat, acceptius quam concilia coetusque hominum iure sociati, quae civitates appellantur; harum rectores et conservatores hinc profecti huc revertuntur.
4. Ovid, Fasti, 6.473-6.572, 6.582, 6.589-6.596, 6.601-6.648 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 6.473. Now you complain, Phrygian Tithonus, abandoned by your bride 6.474. And the vigilant Morning Star leaves the Eastern waters. 6.475. Good mothers (since the Matralia is your festival) 6.476. Go, offer the Theban goddess the golden cakes she’s owed. 6.477. Near the bridges and mighty Circus is a famous square 6.478. One that takes its name from the statue of an ox: 6.479. There, on this day, they say, Servius with his own 6.480. Royal hands, consecrated a temple to Mother Matruta. 6.481. Bacchus, whose hair is twined with clustered grapes 6.482. If the goddess’ house is also yours, guide the poet’s work 6.483. Regarding who the goddess is, and why she exclude 6.484. (Since she does) female servants from the threshold 6.485. of her temple, and why she calls for toasted cakes. 6.486. Semele was burnt by Jove’s compliance: Ino 6.487. Received you as a baby, and nursed you with utmost care. 6.488. Juno swelled with rage, that Ino should raise a child 6.489. Snatched from Jove’s lover: but it was her sister’s son. 6.490. So Athamas was haunted by the Furies, and false visions 6.491. And little Learchus died by his father’s hand. 6.492. His grieving mother committed his shade to the tomb. 6.493. And paid the honours due to the sad pyre. 6.494. Then tearing her hair in sorrow, she leapt up 6.495. And snatched you from your cradle, Melicertes. 6.496. There’s a narrow headland between two seas 6.497. A single space attacked by twofold waves: 6.498. There Ino came, clutching her son in her frenzied grasp 6.499. And threw herself, with him, from a high cliff into the sea. 6.500. Panope and her hundred sisters received them unharmed 6.501. And gliding smoothly carried them through their realm. 6.502. They reached the mouth of densely eddying Tiber 6.503. Before they became Leucothea and Palaemon. 6.504. There was a grove: known either as Semele’s or Stimula’s: 6.505. Inhabited, they say, by Italian Maenads. 6.506. Ino, asking them their nation, learned they were Arcadians 6.507. And that Evander was the king of the place. 6.508. Hiding her divinity, Saturn’s daughter cleverly 6.509. Incited the Latian Bacchae with deceiving words: 6.510. ‘O too-easy-natured ones, caught by every feeling! 6.511. This stranger comes, but not as a friend, to our gathering. 6.512. She’s treacherous, and would learn our sacred rites: 6.513. But she has a child on whom we can wreak punishment.’ 6.514. She’d scarcely ended when the Thyiads, hair streaming 6.515. Over their necks, filled the air with their howling 6.516. Laid hands on Ino, and tried to snatch the boy. 6.517. She invoked gods with names as yet unknown to her: 6.518. ‘Gods, and men, of this land, help a wretched mother!’ 6.519. Her cry carried to the neighbouring Aventine. 6.520. Oetaean Hercules having driven the Iberian cattle 6.521. To the riverbank, heard and hurried towards the voice. 6.522. As he arrived, the women who’d been ready for violence 6.523. Shamefully turned their backs in cowardly flight. 6.524. ‘What are you doing here,’ said Hercules (recognising her) 6.525. ‘Sister of Bacchus’ mother? Does Juno persecute you too?’ 6.526. She told him part of her tale, suppressing the rest because of her son: 6.527. Ashamed to have been goaded to crime by the Furies. 6.528. Rumour, so swift, flew on beating wings 6.529. And your name was on many a lip, Ino. 6.530. It’s said you entered loyal Carmentis’ home 6.531. As a guest, and assuaged your great hunger: 6.532. They say the Tegean priestess quickly made cake 6.533. With her own hands, and baked them on the hearth. 6.534. Now cakes delight the goddess at the Matralia: 6.535. Country ways pleased her more than art’s attentions. 6.536. ‘Now, O prophetess,’ she said, ‘reveal my future fate 6.537. As far as is right. Add this, I beg, to your hospitality.’ 6.538. A pause ensued. Then the prophetess assumed divine powers 6.539. And her whole breast filled with the presence of the god: 6.540. You’d hardly have known her then, so much taller 6.541. And holier she’d become than a moment before. 6.542. ‘I sing good news, Ino,’ she said, ‘your trials are over 6.543. Be a blessing to your people for evermore. 6.544. You’ll be a sea goddess, and your son will inhabit ocean. 6.545. Take different names now, among your own waves: 6.546. Greeks will call you Leucothea, our people Matuta: 6.547. Your son will have complete command of harbours 6.548. We’ll call him Portunus, Palaemon in his own tongue. 6.549. Go, and both be friends, I beg you, of our country!’ 6.550. Ino nodded, and gave her promise. Their trials were over 6.551. They changed their names: he’s a god and she’s a goddess. 6.552. You ask why she forbids the approach of female servants? 6.553. She hates them: by her leave I’ll sing the reason for her hate. 6.554. Daughter of Cadmus, one of your maid 6.555. Was often embraced by your husband. 6.556. Faithless Athamas secretly enjoyed her: he learned 6.557. From her that you gave the farmers parched seed. 6.558. You yourself denied it, but rumour confirmed it. 6.559. That’s why you hate the service of a maid. 6.560. But let no loving mother pray to her, for her child: 6.561. She herself proved an unfortunate parent. 6.562. Better command her to help another’s child: 6.563. She was more use to Bacchus than her own. 6.564. They say she asked you, Rutilius, ‘Where are you rushing? 6.565. As consul you’ll fall to the Marsian enemy on my day.’ 6.566. Her words were fulfilled, the Tolenu 6.567. Flowed purple, its waters mixed with blood. 6.568. The following year, Didius, killed on the same 6.569. Day, doubled the enemy’s strength. 6.570. Fortuna, the same day is yours, your temple 6.571. Founded by the same king, in the same place. 6.572. And whose is that statue hidden under draped robes? 6.582. Under cloth: the king’s face being covered by a robe. 6.589. Having secured her marriage by crime, Tullia 6.590. Used to incite her husband with words like these: 6.591. ‘What use if we’re equally matched, you by my sister’ 6.592. Murder, I by your brother’s, in leading a virtuous life? 6.593. Better that my husband and your wife had lived 6.594. Than that we shrink from greater achievement. 6.595. I offer my father’s life and realm as my dower: 6.596. If you’re a man, go take the dower I speak of. 6.601. With blood and slaughter the weak old man was defeated: 6.602. Tarquin the Proud snatched his father-in-law’s sceptre. 6.603. Servius himself fell bleeding to the hard earth 6.604. At the foot of the Esquiline, site of his palace. 6.605. His daughter, driving to her father’s home 6.606. Rode through the streets, erect and haughty. 6.607. When her driver saw the king’s body, he halted 6.608. In tears. She reproved him in these terms: 6.609. ‘Go on, or do you seek the bitter fruits of virtue? 6.610. Drive the unwilling wheels, I say, over his face.’ 6.611. A certain proof of this is Evil Street, named 6.612. After her, while eternal infamy marks the deed. 6.613. Yet she still dared to visit her father’s temple 6.614. His monument: what I tell is strange but true. 6.615. There was a statue enthroned, an image of Servius: 6.616. They say it put a hand to its eyes 6.617. And a voice was heard: ‘Hide my face 6.618. Lest it view my own wicked daughter.’ 6.619. It was veiled by cloth, Fortune refused to let the robe 6.620. Be removed, and she herself spoke from her temple: 6.621. ‘The day when Servius’ face is next revealed 6.622. Will be a day when shame is cast aside.’ 6.623. Women, beware of touching the forbidden cloth 6.624. (It’s sufficient to utter prayers in solemn tones) 6.625. And let him who was the City’s seventh king 6.626. Keep his head covered, forever, by this veil. 6.627. The temple once burned: but the fire spared 6.628. The statue: Mulciber himself preserved his son. 6.629. For Servius’ father was Vulcan, and the lovely 6.630. Ocresia of Corniculum his mother. 6.631. Once, performing sacred rites with her in the due manner 6.632. Tanaquil ordered her to pour wine on the garlanded hearth: 6.633. There was, or seemed to be, the form of a male organ 6.634. In the ashes: the shape was really there in fact. 6.635. The captive girl sat on the hearth, as commanded: 6.636. She conceived Servius, born of divine seed. 6.637. His father showed his paternity by touching the child’ 6.638. Head with fire, and a cap of flames glowed on his hair. 6.639. And Livia, this day dedicated a magnificent shrine to you 6.640. Concordia, that she offered to her dear husband. 6.641. Learn this, you age to come: where Livia’s Colonnade 6.642. Now stands, there was once a vast palace. 6.643. A site that was like a city: it occupied a space 6.644. Larger than that of many a walled town. 6.645. It was levelled to the soil, not because of its owner’s treason 6.646. But because its excess was considered harmful. 6.647. Caesar counteced the demolition of such a mass 6.648. Destroying its great wealth to which he was heir.
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.780-14.783 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Propertius, Elegies, 4.9.37-4.9.50 (1st cent. BCE
7. Vergil, Aeneis, 2.725, 2.736-2.740, 2.752-2.757, 2.768-2.771, 4.12, 5.407, 6.1-6.2, 6.9-6.12, 6.14-6.125, 6.127-6.155, 6.268, 6.348, 6.384, 6.388, 6.477, 6.489-6.493, 6.539, 6.642-6.644, 6.673, 6.676, 6.688, 6.695-6.696, 6.703, 6.721, 6.756-6.887, 6.896-6.901, 7.312, 8.203-8.204, 8.225-8.232, 8.307, 8.521, 11.429 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.725. when Priam was his foe. With flush of shame 2.736. tell him my naughty deeds! Be sure and say 2.737. how Neoptolemus hath shamed his sires. 2.738. Now die!” With this, he trailed before the shrines 2.739. the trembling King, whose feet slipped in the stream 2.740. of his son's blood. Then Pyrrhus' left hand clutched 2.752. and dazed me utterly. A vision rose 2.753. of my own cherished father, as I saw 2.754. the King, his aged peer, sore wounded Iying 2.755. in mortal agony; a vision too 2.756. of lost Creusa at my ravaged hearth 2.757. and young Iulus' peril. Then my eyes 2.768. for Troy o'erthrown, and of some Greek revenge 2.769. or her wronged husband's Iong indigt ire. 2.770. So hid she at that shrine her hateful brow 2.771. being of Greece and Troy, full well she knew 4.12. of her dear sister spoke the stricken Queen: 5.407. bright-tipped with burnished steel, and battle-axe 6.1. After such words and tears, he flung free rein 6.2. To the swift fleet, which sped along the wave 6.9. To find the seed-spark hidden in its veins; 6.10. One breaks the thick-branched trees, and steals away 6.11. The shelter where the woodland creatures bide; 6.12. One leads his mates where living waters flow. 6.14. The templed hill where lofty Phoebus reigns 6.15. And that far-off, inviolable shrine 6.16. of dread Sibylla, in stupendous cave 6.17. O'er whose deep soul the god of Delos breathes 6.18. Prophetic gifts, unfolding things to come. 6.20. Here Daedalus, the ancient story tells 6.21. Escaping Minos' power, and having made 6.22. Hazard of heaven on far-mounting wings 6.23. Floated to northward, a cold, trackless way 6.24. And lightly poised, at last, o'er Cumae 's towers. 6.25. Here first to earth come down, he gave to thee 6.26. His gear of wings, Apollo! and ordained 6.27. Vast temples to thy name and altars fair. 6.28. On huge bronze doors Androgeos' death was done; 6.29. And Cecrops' children paid their debt of woe 6.30. Where, seven and seven,—0 pitiable sight!— 6.31. The youths and maidens wait the annual doom 6.32. Drawn out by lot from yonder marble urn. 6.33. Beyond, above a sea, lay carven Crete :— 6.34. The bull was there; the passion, the strange guile; 6.35. And Queen Pasiphae's brute-human son 6.36. The Minotaur—of monstrous loves the sign. 6.37. Here was the toilsome, labyrinthine maze 6.38. Where, pitying love-lorn Ariadne's tears 6.39. The crafty Daedalus himself betrayed 6.40. The secret of his work; and gave the clue 6.41. To guide the path of Theseus through the gloom. 6.42. 0 Icarus, in such well-graven scene 6.43. How proud thy place should be! but grief forbade: 6.44. Twice in pure gold a father's fingers strove 6.45. To shape thy fall, and twice they strove in vain. 6.46. Aeneas long the various work would scan; 6.47. But now Achates comes, and by his side 6.48. Deiphobe, the Sibyl, Glaucus' child. 6.49. Thus to the prince she spoke : 6.50. “Is this thine hour 6.51. To stand and wonder? Rather go obtain 6.52. From young unbroken herd the bullocks seven 6.53. And seven yearling ewes, our wonted way.” 6.54. Thus to Aeneas; his attendants haste 6.55. To work her will; the priestess, calling loud 6.57. Deep in the face of that Euboean crag 6.58. A cavern vast is hollowed out amain 6.59. With hundred openings, a hundred mouths 6.60. Whence voices flow, the Sibyl's answering songs. 6.61. While at the door they paused, the virgin cried : 6.62. “Ask now thy doom!—the god! the god is nigh!” 6.63. So saying, from her face its color flew 6.64. Her twisted locks flowed free, the heaving breast 6.65. Swelled with her heart's wild blood; her stature seemed 6.66. Vaster, her accent more than mortal man 6.67. As all th' oncoming god around her breathed : 6.68. “On with thy vows and prayers, 0 Trojan, on! 6.69. For only unto prayer this haunted cave 6.70. May its vast lips unclose.” She spake no more. 6.71. An icy shudder through the marrow ran 6.72. of the bold Trojans; while their sacred King 6.73. Poured from his inmost soul this plaint and prayer : 6.74. “Phoebus, who ever for the woes of Troy 6.75. Hadst pitying eyes! who gavest deadly aim 6.76. To Paris when his Dardan shaft he hurled 6.77. On great Achilles! Thou hast guided me 6.78. Through many an unknown water, where the seas 6.79. Break upon kingdoms vast, and to the tribes 6.80. of the remote Massyli, whose wild land 6.81. To Syrtes spreads. But now; because at last 6.82. I touch Hesperia's ever-fleeting bound 6.83. May Troy 's ill fate forsake me from this day! 6.84. 0 gods and goddesses, beneath whose wrath 6.85. Dardania's glory and great Ilium stood 6.86. Spare, for ye may, the remt of my race! 6.87. And thou, most holy prophetess, whose soul 6.88. Foreknows events to come, grant to my prayer 6.89. (Which asks no kingdom save what Fate decrees) 6.90. That I may stablish in the Latin land 6.91. My Trojans, my far-wandering household-gods 6.92. And storm-tossed deities of fallen Troy . 6.93. Then unto Phoebus and his sister pale 6.94. A temple all of marble shall be given 6.95. And festal days to Phoebus evermore. 6.96. Thee also in my realms a spacious shrine 6.97. Shall honor; thy dark books and holy songs 6.98. I there will keep, to be my people's law; 6.99. And thee, benigt Sibyl for all time 6.100. A company of chosen priests shall serve. 6.101. O, not on leaves, light leaves, inscribe thy songs! 6.102. Lest, playthings of each breeze, they fly afar 6.103. In swift confusion! Sing thyself, I pray.” 6.104. So ceased his voice; the virgin through the cave 6.105. Scarce bridled yet by Phoebus' hand divine 6.106. Ecstatic swept along, and vainly stove 6.107. To fing its potent master from her breast; 6.108. But he more strongly plied his rein and curb 6.109. Upon her frenzied lips, and soon subdued 6.110. Her spirit fierce, and swayed her at his will. 6.111. Free and self-moved the cavern's hundred adoors 6.112. Swung open wide, and uttered to the air 6.113. The oracles the virgin-priestess sung : 6.114. “Thy long sea-perils thou hast safely passed; 6.115. But heavier woes await thee on the land. 6.116. Truly thy Trojans to Lavinian shore 6.117. Shall come—vex not thyself thereon—but, oh! 6.118. Shall rue their coming thither! war, red war! 6.119. And Tiber stained with bloody foam I see. 6.120. Simois, Xanthus, and the Dorian horde 6.121. Thou shalt behold; a new Achilles now 6.122. In Latium breathes,—he, too, of goddess born; 6.123. And Juno, burden of the sons of Troy 6.124. Will vex them ever; while thyself shalt sue 6.125. In dire distress to many a town and tribe 6.127. Again shall be a hostess-queen, again 6.128. A marriage-chamber for an alien bride. 6.129. Oh! yield not to thy woe, but front it ever 6.130. And follow boldly whither Fortune calls. 6.131. Thy way of safety, as thou least couldst dream 6.133. Thus from her shrine Cumaea's prophetess 6.134. Chanted the dark decrees; the dreadful sound 6.135. Reverberated through the bellowing cave 6.136. Commingling truth with ecstasies obscure. 6.137. Apollo, as she raged, flung loosened rein 6.138. And thrust beneath her heart a quickening spur. 6.139. When first her madness ceased, and her wild lips 6.140. Were still at last, the hero thus began : 6.141. “No tribulations new, 0 Sibyl blest 6.142. Can now confront me; every future pain 6.143. I have foretasted; my prophetic soul 6.144. Endured each stroke of fate before it fell. 6.145. One boon I ask. If of th' infernal King 6.146. This be the portal where the murky wave 6.147. of swollen Acheron o'erflows its bound 6.148. Here let me enter and behold the face 6.149. of my loved sire. Thy hand may point the way; 6.150. Thy word will open wide yon holy doors. 6.151. My father through the flames and falling spears 6.152. Straight through the centre of our foes, I bore 6.153. Upon these shoulders. My long flight he shared 6.154. From sea to sea, and suffered at my side 6.155. The anger of rude waters and dark skies,— 6.268. In silent flight, and find a wished-for rest 6.348. Ye gods! who rule the spirits of the dead! 6.384. These were but shapes and shadows sweeping by 6.388. Disgorges in Cocytus all its sands. 6.477. For thou hast power! Or if some path there be 6.489. But heed my words, and in thy memory 6.490. Cherish and keep, to cheer this evil time. 6.491. Lo, far and wide, led on by signs from Heaven 6.492. Thy countrymen from many a templed town 6.493. Shall consecrate thy dust, and build thy tomb 6.539. Came safe across the river, and were moored 6.642. of ears and nostrils infamously shorn. 6.643. Scarce could Aeneas know the shuddering shade 6.644. That strove to hide its face and shameful scar; 6.673. In that same hour on my sad couch I lay 6.676. But my illustrious bride from all the house 6.688. But, friend, what fortunes have thy life befallen? 6.695. On her ethereal road. The princely pair 6.696. Had wasted thus the whole brief gift of hours; 6.703. To Tartarus th' accurst.” Deiphobus Deïphobus 6.721. Aeneas motionless with horror stood 6.756. And Jove's own fire. In chariot of four steeds 6.757. Brandishing torches, he triumphant rode 6.758. Through throngs of Greeks, o'er Elis ' sacred way 6.759. Demanding worship as a god. 0 fool! 6.760. To mock the storm's inimitable flash— 6.761. With crash of hoofs and roll of brazen wheel! 6.762. But mightiest Jove from rampart of thick cloud 6.763. Hurled his own shaft, no flickering, mortal flame 6.764. And in vast whirl of tempest laid him low. 6.765. Next unto these, on Tityos I looked 6.766. Child of old Earth, whose womb all creatures bears: 6.767. Stretched o'er nine roods he lies; a vulture huge 6.768. Tears with hooked beak at his immortal side 6.769. Or deep in entrails ever rife with pain 6.770. Gropes for a feast, making his haunt and home 6.771. In the great Titan bosom; nor will give 6.772. To ever new-born flesh surcease of woe. 6.773. Why name Ixion and Pirithous 6.774. The Lapithae, above whose impious brows 6.775. A crag of flint hangs quaking to its fall 6.776. As if just toppling down, while couches proud 6.777. Propped upon golden pillars, bid them feast 6.778. In royal glory: but beside them lies 6.779. The eldest of the Furies, whose dread hands 6.780. Thrust from the feast away, and wave aloft 6.781. A flashing firebrand, with shrieks of woe. 6.782. Here in a prison-house awaiting doom 6.783. Are men who hated, long as life endured 6.784. Their brothers, or maltreated their gray sires 6.785. Or tricked a humble friend; the men who grasped 6.786. At hoarded riches, with their kith and kin 6.787. Not sharing ever—an unnumbered throng; 6.788. Here slain adulterers be; and men who dared 6.789. To fight in unjust cause, and break all faith 6.790. With their own lawful lords. Seek not to know 6.791. What forms of woe they feel, what fateful shape 6.792. of retribution hath o'erwhelmed them there. 6.793. Some roll huge boulders up; some hang on wheels 6.794. Lashed to the whirling spokes; in his sad seat 6.795. Theseus is sitting, nevermore to rise; 6.796. Unhappy Phlegyas uplifts his voice 6.797. In warning through the darkness, calling loud 6.798. ‘0, ere too late, learn justice and fear God!’ 6.799. Yon traitor sold his country, and for gold 6.800. Enchained her to a tyrant, trafficking 6.801. In laws, for bribes enacted or made void; 6.802. Another did incestuously take 6.803. His daughter for a wife in lawless bonds. 6.804. All ventured some unclean, prodigious crime; 6.805. And what they dared, achieved. I could not tell 6.806. Not with a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues 6.807. Or iron voice, their divers shapes of sin 6.809. So spake Apollo's aged prophetess. 6.810. “Now up and on!” she cried. “Thy task fulfil! 6.811. We must make speed. Behold yon arching doors 6.812. Yon walls in furnace of the Cyclops forged! 6.813. 'T is there we are commanded to lay down 6.814. Th' appointed offering.” So, side by side 6.815. Swift through the intervening dark they strode 6.816. And, drawing near the portal-arch, made pause. 6.817. Aeneas, taking station at the door 6.818. Pure, lustral waters o'er his body threw 6.820. Now, every rite fulfilled, and tribute due 6.821. Paid to the sovereign power of Proserpine 6.822. At last within a land delectable 6.823. Their journey lay, through pleasurable bowers 6.824. of groves where all is joy,—a blest abode! 6.825. An ampler sky its roseate light bestows 6.826. On that bright land, which sees the cloudless beam 6.827. of suns and planets to our earth unknown. 6.828. On smooth green lawns, contending limb with limb 6.829. Immortal athletes play, and wrestle long 6.830. 'gainst mate or rival on the tawny sand; 6.831. With sounding footsteps and ecstatic song 6.832. Some thread the dance divine: among them moves 6.833. The bard of Thrace, in flowing vesture clad 6.834. Discoursing seven-noted melody 6.835. Who sweeps the numbered strings with changeful hand 6.836. Or smites with ivory point his golden lyre. 6.837. Here Trojans be of eldest, noblest race 6.838. Great-hearted heroes, born in happier times 6.839. Ilus, Assaracus, and Dardanus 6.840. Illustrious builders of the Trojan town. 6.841. Their arms and shadowy chariots he views 6.842. And lances fixed in earth, while through the fields 6.843. Their steeds without a bridle graze at will. 6.844. For if in life their darling passion ran 6.845. To chariots, arms, or glossy-coated steeds 6.846. The self-same joy, though in their graves, they feel. 6.847. Lo! on the left and right at feast reclined 6.848. Are other blessed souls, whose chorus sings 6.849. Victorious paeans on the fragrant air 6.850. of laurel groves; and hence to earth outpours 6.851. Eridanus, through forests rolling free. 6.852. Here dwell the brave who for their native land 6.853. Fell wounded on the field; here holy priests 6.854. Who kept them undefiled their mortal day; 6.855. And poets, of whom the true-inspired song 6.856. Deserved Apollo's name; and all who found 6.857. New arts, to make man's life more blest or fair; 6.858. Yea! here dwell all those dead whose deeds bequeath 6.859. Deserved and grateful memory to their kind. 6.860. And each bright brow a snow-white fillet wears. 6.861. Unto this host the Sibyl turned, and hailed 6.862. Musaeus, midmost of a numerous throng 6.863. Who towered o'er his peers a shoulder higher: 6.864. “0 spirits blest! 0 venerable bard! 6.865. Declare what dwelling or what region holds 6.866. Anchises, for whose sake we twain essayed 6.867. Yon passage over the wide streams of hell.” 6.868. And briefly thus the hero made reply: 6.869. “No fixed abode is ours. In shadowy groves 6.870. We make our home, or meadows fresh and fair 6.871. With streams whose flowery banks our couches be. 6.872. But you, if thitherward your wishes turn 6.873. Climb yonder hill, where I your path may show.” 6.874. So saying, he strode forth and led them on 6.875. Till from that vantage they had prospect fair 6.876. of a wide, shining land; thence wending down 6.877. They left the height they trod; for far below 6.878. Father Anchises in a pleasant vale 6.879. Stood pondering, while his eyes and thought surveyed 6.880. A host of prisoned spirits, who there abode 6.881. Awaiting entrance to terrestrial air. 6.882. And musing he reviewed the legions bright 6.883. of his own progeny and offspring proud— 6.884. Their fates and fortunes, virtues and great deeds. 6.885. Soon he discerned Aeneas drawing nigh 6.886. o'er the green slope, and, lifting both his hands 6.887. In eager welcome, spread them swiftly forth. 6.896. Deceive. 0, o'er what lands and seas wast driven 6.897. To this embrace! What perils manifold 6.898. Assailed thee, 0 my son, on every side! 6.899. How long I trembled, lest that Libyan throne 6.900. Should work thee woe!” 6.901. Aeneas thus replied: 7.312. from Ilium burning: with this golden bowl 8.203. alike the northern and the southern sea. 8.204. Accept good faith, and give! Behold, our hearts 8.225. to Pheneus' olden wall. He gave me gifts 8.226. the day he bade adieu; a quiver rare 8.227. filled with good Lycian arrows, a rich cloak 8.228. inwove with thread of gold, and bridle reins 8.229. all golden, now to youthful Pallas given. 8.230. Therefore thy plea is granted, and my hand 8.231. here clasps in loyal amity with thine. 8.232. To-morrow at the sunrise thou shalt have 8.307. gnashing his teeth. Three times his ire surveyed 8.521. wift as the glittering shaft of thunder cleaves 11.429. for other land or people yearn, and fate

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles, successors, aeneas	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
achilles	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
aeneas, and the sibyl	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
aeneas, death wish	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
aeneas, founder of rome	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
aeneas, intertextual identities, odysseus	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
aeneas, reader	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
aeneas	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196; Pinheiro Bierl and Beck, Anton Bierl? and Roger Beck?, Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (2013) 180
aenides	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
agamemnon	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
anchises	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
anchisiades (aeneas)	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
apollo	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
arms (arma)	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
ascanius	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
augury, virgil on	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
augury	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
avernus	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
bacchic rites, matralia and cult of mater matuta in ovids fasti	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
bible, apocrypha	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 282
body	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116, 117
broch, hermann, and psychoanalysis	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
broch, hermann, der tod des vergil	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
campus martius, for leisure	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
charon	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
christ, descent into hades	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 281, 282
christ, resurrection	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116, 117
christ, word	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116
cicero, marcus tullius, on walking	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
cumae, sibyl of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
cumae	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
daedalus	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
dardanius	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
death, heroic	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
death, resurrection of body	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116, 117
death	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 117
deiphobe	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
diana	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
emptiness	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
ethical qualities, endurance	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
ethical qualities, force, violence	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
evanders rome	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
faith	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116
forum boarium, rome	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
freud, sigmund, and hermann broch	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
freud, sigmund, and virgil	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
freud, sigmund, the interpretation of dreams	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
greek literature and practice, juno, victims of	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
greeks	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
hercules	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 281; Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
hero	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
history	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
hope	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116, 117
italy	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
juno/hera	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
jupiter, in the aeneid	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
katabasis	Gee, Mapping the Afterlife: From Homer to Dante (2020) 69
kings	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
leisure, campus martius for	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
matralia and cult of mater matuta, bacchic rites in	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
matralia and cult of mater matuta, hercules protection of ino in	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
matralia and cult of mater matuta, vergils aeneid, as alternative foundation narrative to	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
matralia and cult of mater matuta	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
metamorphoses, apuleius, by	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck, Anton Bierl? and Roger Beck?, Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (2013) 180
movement in the city, walking and running	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
movement in the city	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
narratives	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
odyssey	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
paul	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116
pompey, portico of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
portico of pompey	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
porticos, for strolling	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
presence	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93
psyche'	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck, Anton Bierl? and Roger Beck?, Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (2013) 180
psychoanalysis, in hermann brochs der tod des vergil	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
romans	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
rutulians	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
seneca	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 281
sibyl, cumaean	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
sibyl of cumae	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149; Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
signs, augural	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
signs	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
styx, in virgil and claudian	Gee, Mapping the Afterlife: From Homer to Dante (2020) 69
styx	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
symbolism, gate	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 281, 282
tartarus	Gee, Mapping the Afterlife: From Homer to Dante (2020) 69
thebes	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
theseus, theseid	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
tolumnius	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
trojan war	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
trojans	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
troy	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235; Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
uates	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
underworld	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 93; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, odyssean	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
vergil, aeneid, matralia as alternative foundation narrative to	Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (2019) 196
virgil, aeneid	O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 116, 117, 281, 282
virgil, and sigmund freud	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
virgil, in hermann brochs der tod des vergil	Goldschmidt, Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019) 171
virgil	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 229
voyaging	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235
walking in the city	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 149
wandering	Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 235