Aeneas

Aeneas, whom Aphrodite bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida.

Then Aeneas killed two champions of the Danaans, Crethon and Orsilokhos.

But Diomedes sprang upon Aeneas, though he knew him to be in the very arms of Apollo.

as was the case when Ascanius wounded the stag, which gave rise to the war between Turnus and Aeneas.

A reasonable rule, which the divine poet has observed, when he introduced Aeneas making an offer the Latinus, who had become his father-in-law, should retain all military and civil power.

” Strabo says it was the practice of the ancient Greeks, and Aeneas proposed it to Turnus, as the most equitable way of settling their pretensions.

"Now there is need of courage, Aeneas, now of a firm heart.

In these books it is inquired what was Homer's country, in these who was the true mother of Aeneas, in these whether Anacreon lived more lustfully or more drunkenly, in these whether Sappho was a public woman, and other things which, if you knew them, you would have to unlearn.

Behold, in that most religious city of the pious sons of Aeneas there is a certain Jupiter whom at his games they wash with human blood.

that Venus was wounded by a human arrow, because she wished to rescue her son Aeneas, all but slain by that same Diomedes;

And from the capture of Troy to the return of Aeneas and the founding of Lavinium, ten years;

and Aeneas reigned over all Italy and founded the greatest city of all.

And Antenor, seeing Aeneas sent out, himself too desired to rule over Europe, and another such fleet was made.

For Aeneas, sent by Hector with a fleet and much force, possessed Italy, the most prosperous country of Europe;

AENEAS.

AENEAS.

—Out withal

And Cytherea with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bore Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens.

-->“Anchises, most glorious of mortal men, take courage and be not too fearful in your heart.

So also golden-throned Eos rapt away Tithonus who was of your race and like the deathless gods.

yet are those of your race always the most like to gods of all mortal men in beauty and in stature.

Now rouse your companions, Aeneas, first to shout the praises of Hera Parthenia, and then to know whether we have truly escaped the ancient reproach of men’s speech, “Boeotian pig.

and as you know Homer says in praise of Aeneas’ horses, that they knew how to pursue and to flee in fright full swiftly this way and that way;

and Aphrodite bids Aeneas sail with him;

After that he drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding cities, and he kills Troilus.

The Roman empire, indeed, looks back to an exile as its founder—a fugitive whom, when his country was taken, dragging along a scanty remnant, necessity and the fear of the victor brought, as he sought distant regions, into Italy.

1 Who will call Aeneas dutiful, if he had wished his country to be taken, that he might snatch his father from captivity?

Pious Aeneas, on account of a single boy and a decrepit old man, while Priam and Astyanax were left forsaken?

but the man dragged Aeneas along after him, and both went flying down the cliffs and were killed.

In the midst of this scene Aeneas of Stymphalus, a captain, catching sight of a man, who was wearing a fine robe, running to cast himself down, seized hold of him in order to stop him;

At about this time Aeneas the Stymphalian, who had become general of the Arcadians, thinking that conditions in Sicyon were not to be endured, went up to the Acropolis with his own army, called together the aristocrats among the Sicyonians who were in the city, and sent after those who had been exiled therefrom without a decree of the people.