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THE AENEID, BOOK I

Here he sees three stags wandering on the shore; these the whole herd follows
from behind, and here the long column grazes through the valleys.
He stood still here and snatched up in his hand the bow and swift arrows,
the weapons which faithful Achates Aeneas’s most loyal companion, whose name has become a synonym for a devoted friend. was carrying.
And first he lays low the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high
with tree-like antlers; then he throws the common herd into confusion,
driving the whole crowd with his shafts among the leafy groves.
Nor does he stop as victor before he pours out seven huge
bodies on the ground, and makes their number equal to that of the ships.
From here he seeks the harbor and distributes them among all his companions.
Then he divides the wine, which the good Acestes The King of Sicily who had hospitably received the Trojans before the storm. had loaded
into jars on the Trinacrian original: "TRINACRIO"; a poetic name for Sicily, referring to its three-cornered shape. shore and had given to them as they were leaving, like a hero,
and with his words he soothes their grieving hearts:
"O companions—for we are not unacquainted with evils before—
O you who have suffered more grievous things, God will also grant an end to these.
You have approached both the Scyllaean Referring to Scylla, the monstrous sea-creature who lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis. rage and the deeply
resounding cliffs; you have also experienced the Cyclopean The rocks of the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, on the coast of Sicily. rocks.
Recall your spirits and dismiss your sorrowful fear;
perhaps even these things, one day, it will be pleasing to remember.
Through various misfortunes, through so many hazards of things,
we head for Latium The region in central Italy where Aeneas is destined to found the precursor to Rome., where the Fates show us quiet dwellings."