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Virgil, Literally for the Use of Students. by W. Smart
Virgil Literally for the Use of Students by W Smart Author:Publius Vergilius Maro General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 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: It was night, and deep sleep possessed weary animals, the race of birds and cattk, throughout all lands; when the chief Eneas on the bank, and under the cold pole of the sky, disturbed in his mind by the disastrous war, laid-down and gave late repose to bis limbs. To him the god himself of the place, aged Tiberinus, from his pleasant river seemed to raise himseif-up among the poplar boughs. Fine linen wrapped him in sea-green clothing, and shady reed covered his hair. Then the god seemed thus to speak, and to relieve bis cares with these words. " Q! sprung from the race of the gods, looked-fbr by the Laurcntinc soil and Latin lands! who bring back to us the city Troy from the enemy, and preserve eternal Pergamus: here is your certain home, fixed habitations, flinch/ not; nor fear the threats of war. All rage and angers of the gods have subsided. And now, that you may not think sleep represents these things to you visionarily only; a huge sow, found under the holms on the shore, shall lie, having produced a litter of thirty, white in colour, lying on the ground, her white young around her dugs. This shall be the place of . your city, this the sure repose of your toils. From which time, in thrice ten revolving years, Aseanius shall build the city Alba of renowned name. I sing not nncertainties. Now attend ; I will teach you in few words, by what means victoriously you may accomplish what now engages you. The Arcadians, a race descended from Pallas, are on these coasts; who. having followed as companions, their king Evander and his standards, chose a place, and on the hills built the Palatine city, named...« less