Search -
The Æneid of Virgil, Books Vii.-Xii., Tr. Into Engl. Blank Verse by Lord Ravensworth
The neid of Virgil Books ViiXii Tr Into Engl Blank Verse by Lord Ravensworth Author:Publius Vergilius Maro General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: This, leaning leftward to the river's brink, He from the right so fiercely heaved and shook, That from its rooted base the earth-fast rock Wrenched and uptorn, gave way -- down, down it went; Loud rang the welkin's vault, and refluent far 280 From his torn banks the stream affrighted fled. ' But then the robber's spacious cave unroofed, With all its murky windings was displayed In the full glare of day, as if the ground, Wide-gaping with an earthquake's shock, revealed The nethermost abodes and pallid halls Of Pluto, hateful to the Gods above, While in the gulf beneath the gazer's view The ghosts flit trembling from the garish light. Him thus detected in unwished-for day, 290 Shut in with rock, and howling all in vain, Alcides from above with missiles plied Incessant -- stocks and roots and boulders huge. But Cacus, when he saw all chance of flight Cut off, and sore beset, now vomits forth (Strange portent) from his jaws so dense a smoke That every prospect to the eye is lost, And all the cavern's space involved in gloom Like night, with intermingled flakes of fire. Chafed at the fraud, Alcides with a bound 300 Sprang headlong to the spot where thickest rolled The cloud of smoke that surged within the cave, And seizing in his mighty grasp the thief, Crouched in the gloom and belching forth vain fire, He doubled up his ribs and spine, and crushed His blackened eyeballs and his bloodless throat. Straightway the bars are drawn, and the dark cave Laid bare -- the stolen beeves and spoils denied Brought to the light of day -- the carcase foul ...« less