The Aeneid

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• Once he’d spoken, the elderly man made a feeble strike with a powerless Spear. And it fell, with a clang, on the bronze shield, instantly halted, Then dangled limply down from the top of its central embossment. Pyrrhus replied: “You’ll report this, then, to my father Achilles, Fully, in person. Remember to tell of my grisly actions! Call Neoptolemus just what he is: a degenerate bastard. Now: die.” ‘While he was speaking, he pounced on the quivering Priam, Dragged the king, slipping in pools of his own son’s blood, to the altar, Grabbed his hair, yanked back his head with his left, with his right drew his gleaming Sword which he then buried up to the hilt in the flank of the old king. So ended Priam’s role, as prescribed by the fates. His allotted Exit made him a spectator at T... (查看原文)

  Ja 2023-02-22 20:58:35

• Up to the heavens we’re raised on the spiralling waves, the next moment Down we sink to the depths of the dead as the waters are sucked back. Three times cliffs amid hollows of rock roar thunderous echoes; Three times we see foam wash clear, see stars dripping water. Meanwhile the wind and the daylight abandon us, leave us exhausted. Not knowing where we are, we’ve beached on the shores of the Cyclops. ‘Huge and calm as the harbour itself is, for no breezes enter, Nearby Etna thunders horrific cascades of destruction. Sometimes she shoots dark clouds up high, enshrouding the heavens, Billows out eddying pitch-black smoke, ash blazing and white hot, Catapults fiery globes, great flames which lick at the gleaming Stars. And she’ll sometimes hurl forth crags, she will tear out a... (查看原文)

  Ja 2023-02-22 21:06:28