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P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden)
Editions and translations: English (ed. John Dryden) | English (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | Latin (ed. J. B. Greenough)
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Nine days they pass in feasts, their temples crown'd;
And fumes of incense in the fanes abound.
Then from the south arose a gentle breeze
That curl'd the smoothness of the glassy seas;
The rising winds a ruffling gale afford,
And call the merry mariners aboard.
Now loud laments along the shores resound,
Of parting friends in close embraces bound.
The trembling women, the degenerate train,
Who shunn'd the frightful dangers of the main,
Ev'n those desire to sail, and take their share
Of the rough passage and the promis'd war:
Whom good Aeneas cheers, and recommends
To their new master's care his fearful friends.
On Eryx's altars three fat calves he lays;
A lamb new-fallen to the stormy seas;
Then slips his haulsers, and his anchors weighs.
High on the deck the godlike hero stands,
With olive crown'd, a charger in his hands;
Then cast the reeking entrails in the brine,
And pour'd the sacrifice of purple wine.
Fresh gales arise; with equal strokes they vie,
And brush the buxom seas, and o'er the billows fly.
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Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
beroe [Beroë]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Vergil. Aeneid. John Dryden. trans. XXX. XXX. XXX.
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