Aeneas

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

There, within the mighty sanctuary, Leto and Artemis healed him and made him glorious to behold, while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas, and armed as he was.

Brave Menelaos pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandishing his spear, for Ares egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas;

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.

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

For here there is no Aeneas snatched away by Aphrodite nor Ares wounded by a man nor any other such incredible thing, but true matters and like things that happened.

(To AENEAS) Go thou and calm the allies.

AENEAS.

AENEAS.

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.

And if any mortal man ask you who got your dear son beneath her girdle, remember to tell him as I bid you:

These Nymphs shall keep my son with them and rear him, and as soon as he is come to lovely boyhood, the goddesses will bring him here to you and show you your child.

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.

and Aphrodite bids Aeneas sail with him;

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?

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;

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

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.