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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Aeneid by Virgil , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazl... ... State University is an equal opportunity University. 19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Ju... ...rs from th’ invested palace ring: We run to die, or disengage the king. So hot th’ assault, so high the tumult rose, While ours defend, and while the ... ...und’ring Aetna join’d. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick ... ...t when imperial Juno, from above, Saw Dido fetter’d in the chains of love, Hot with the venom which her veins inflam’d, And by no sense of shame to be... ...trument of war. T yrrheus, the foster father of the beast, Then clench’d a hatchet in his horny fist, But held his hand from the descending stroke, An... ...helter there the trembling shadow bent, And skipp’t and skulk’d, and under hatches went. Exulting Turnus, with regardless haste, Ascends the plank, an...

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