1. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.545-5.603 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dynasty, and generational continuity •generational continuity, and dynasty •generational continuity, in the calendar Found in books: Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 58 5.545. At pater Aeneas, nondum certamine misso, 5.546. custodem ad sese comitemque impubis Iuli 5.547. Epytiden vocat, et fidam sic fatur ad aurem: 5.548. Vade age, et Ascanio, si iam puerile paratum 5.549. agmen habet secum, cursusque instruxit equorum, 5.550. ducat avo turmas, et sese ostendat in armis, 5.551. dic ait. Ipse omnem longo decedere circo 5.552. infusum populum, et campos iubet esse patentes. 5.553. Incedunt pueri, pariterque ante ora parentum 5.554. frenatis lucent in equis, quos omnis euntes 5.555. Trinacriae mirata fremit Troiaeque iuventus. 5.556. omnibus in morem tonsa coma pressa corona; 5.557. cornea bina ferunt praefixa hastilia ferro; 5.558. pars levis umero pharetras; it pectore summo 5.559. flexilis obtorti per collum circulus auri. 5.560. Tres equitum numero turmae, ternique vagantur 5.561. ductores: pueri bis seni quemque secuti 5.562. agmine partito fulgent paribusque magistris. 5.563. Una acies iuvenum, ducit quam parvus ovantem 5.564. nomen avi referens Priamus,—tua clara, Polite, 5.565. progenies, auctura Italos,—quem Thracius albis 5.566. portat equus bicolor maculis, vestigia primi 5.567. alba pedis frontemque ostentans arduus albam. 5.568. Alter Atys, genus unde Atii duxere Latini, 5.569. parvus Atys, pueroque puer dilectus Iulo. 5.570. Extremus, formaque ante omnis pulcher, Iulus 5.571. Sidonio est invectus equo, quem candida Dido 5.572. esse sui dederat monumentum et pignus amoris. 5.573. Cetera Trinacrii pubes senioris Acestae 5.574. fertur equis. 5.575. Excipiunt plausu pavidos, gaudentque tuentes 5.576. Dardanidae, veterumque adgnoscunt ora parentum. 5.577. Postquam omnem laeti consessum oculosque suorum 5.578. lustravere in equis, signum clamore paratis 5.579. Epytides longe dedit insonuitque flagello. 5.580. Olli discurrere pares, atque agmina terni 5.581. diductis solvere choris, rursusque vocati 5.582. convertere vias infestaque tela tulere. 5.583. Inde alios ineunt cursus aliosque recursus 5.584. adversi spatiis, alternosque orbibus orbes 5.585. impediunt, pugnaeque cient simulacra sub armis; 5.586. et nunc terga fuga nudant, nunc spicula vertunt 5.587. infensi, facta pariter nunc pace feruntur. 5.588. Ut quondam Creta fertur Labyrinthus in alta 5.589. parietibus textum caecis iter, ancipitemque 5.590. mille viis habuisse dolum, qua signa sequendi 5.591. falleret indeprensus et inremeabilis error; 5.592. haud alio Teucrum nati vestigia cursu 5.593. impediunt texuntque fugas et proelia ludo, 5.594. delphinum similes, qui per maria umida do 5.595. Carpathium Libycumque secant, 5.545. be of our Trojan Dares disapproved, 5.546. if good Aeneas rules it so, and King 5.547. Acestes wills it, let us offer fight 5.548. on even terms. Let Eryx ' bull's-hide go. 5.549. Tremble no more! But strip those gauntlets off — 5.550. fetched here from Troy .” So saying, he dropped down 5.551. the double-folded mantle from his shoulders, 5.552. tripped bare the huge joints, the huge arms and thews, 5.553. and towered gigantic in the midmost ring. 5.554. Anchises' son then gave two equal pairs 5.555. of gauntlets, and accoutred with like arms 5.556. both champions. Each lifted him full height 5.557. on tiptoe; each with mien unterrified 5.558. held both fists high in air, and drew his head 5.559. far back from blows assailing. Then they joined 5.560. in struggle hand to hand, and made the fray 5.561. each moment fiercer. One was light of foot 5.562. and on his youth relied; the other strong 5.563. in bulk of every limb, but tottering 5.564. on sluggish knees, while all his body shook 5.565. with labor of his breath. Without avail 5.566. they rained their blows, and on each hollow side, 5.567. each sounding chest, the swift, reverberate strokes 5.568. fell without pause; around their ears and brows 5.569. came blow on blow, and with relentless shocks 5.570. the smitten jaws cracked loud. Entellus stands 5.571. unshaken, and, the self-same posture keeping, 5.572. only by body-movement or quick eye 5.573. parries attack. Dares (like one in siege 5.574. against a mountain-citadel, who now will drive 5.575. with ram and engine at the craggy wall, 5.576. now wait in full-armed watch beneath its towers) 5.577. tries manifold approach, most craftily 5.578. invests each point of vantage, and renews 5.579. his unsuccessful, ever various war. 5.580. Then, rising to the stroke, Entellus poised 5.581. aloft his ponderous right; but, quick of eye, 5.582. the other the descending wrath foresaw 5.583. and nimbly slipped away; Entellus so 5.584. wasted his stroke on air, and, self-o'erthrown, 5.585. dropped prone to earth his monstrous length along, 5.586. as when on Erymanth or Ida falls 5.587. a hollowed pine from giant roots uptorn. 5.588. Alike the Teucrian and Trinacrian throng 5.589. hout wildly; while Acestes, pitying, hastes 5.590. to lift his gray companion. But, unchecked, 5.591. undaunted by his fall, the champion brave 5.592. rushed fiercer to the fight, his strength now roused 5.593. by rage, while shame and courage confident 5.594. kindle his soul; impetuous he drives 5.595. Dares full speed all round the ring, with blows 5.596. redoubled right and left. No stop or stay 5.597. gives he, but like a storm of rattling hail 5.598. upon a house-top, so from each huge hand 5.600. Then Sire Aeneas willed to make a stay 5.601. to so much rage, nor let Entellus' soul 5.602. flame beyond bound, but bade the battle pause, 5.603. and, rescuing weary Dares, thus he spoke | |
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