The Works of Virgil

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"There Referencing Latium, the promised land in Italy. the fates show that it is divine will for the kingdom of Troy to rise again.
Endure, and save yourselves for favorable times."
Such words he speaks with his voice, and though sick with massive cares,
he feigns hope on his face, and pushes grief deep into his heart.
They gird themselves for the prey and the feast to come:
they tear the hides from the ribs and lay bare the flesh;
some cut it into pieces and fix the quivering meat on spits;
others place bronze cauldrons on the shore and tend the fires.
Then they restore their strength with food, and stretched out along the grass,
they fill themselves with old wine original: "VETERIS BACCHI"; Bacchus was the god of wine, and his name is frequently used as a metonym for the drink itself. and rich venison.
After hunger was banished by the feast and the tables removed,
they seek their lost companions in long conversation,
suspended between hope and fear, whether they should believe them to be living,
or suffering the final end and no longer hearing those who call them.
Especially pious Aeneas original: "PIUS AENEAS"; the epithet "pius" denotes Aeneas's primary virtue: his sense of duty to his gods, his ancestors, and his people. laments now the fall of fierce Orontes,
now Amycus, and to himself the cruel
fates of Lycus, and brave Gyas, and brave Cloanthus.
And now it was the end, when Jupiter The king of the Roman gods, equivalent to the Greek Zeus. from the highest heaven,
looking down upon the sail-winged sea and the outspread lands,
the shores and the broad-ranging peoples, thus at the summit of the sky
he stood, and fixed his eyes upon the realms of Libya.