spicula contorquent cursuque ictuque lacessunt, 165 cum praevectus equo longaevi regis ad auris nuntius ingentis ignota in veste reportat advenisse viros. ille intra tecta vocari imperat et solio medius consedit avito. Tectum augustum, ingens, centum sublime columnis, 170 urbe fuit summa, Laurentis regia Pici, horrendum silvis et religione parentum. hic sceptra accipere et primos attollere fasces 175 FMPR 181 et cristae capitum et portarum ingentia claustra 185 spiculaque clipeique ereptaque rostra carinis. ipse Quirinali lituo parvaque sedebat succinctus trabea laevaque ancile gerebat Picus, equum domitor; quem capta cupidine coniunx aurea percussum virga versumque venenis fecit avem Circe sparsitque coloribus alas. 182 Martia qui F1M. 190 with their arms tough darts, and challenge to race or boxing bout-when, gicping p, a messenger brings word to the aged moraren i ears that y men are come in unknown attire. The king buds them be summoned within the balls, and takes i ́s seat in the midst on his ancestral throne. 170 Stately and vast, towering with a hundred columns, his house crowned the city, once the palace of Laurentian Picus, awe-inspiring with its grove and the sanctity of olden days. Here 'twas auspicious for kings to receive the sceptre, and first uplift the fasces; this shrine was their senate-bouse, this the scene of their holy feasts: here, after slaughter of rams, the elders were wont to sit down at the long line of tables. Yea, and in order are images of their forefathers of yore, carved of old cedar-Italus and father Sabinus, planter of the vine, guarding in his image the curved pruning-hook, and aged Saturn, and the likeness of two-faced Janus-all standing in the vestibule; and other kings from the beginning, and they who had suffered wounds of war, fighting for their fatherland. Many arms, moreover, hang on the sacred doors, captive chariots, curved axes, helmet-crests and massive bars of gates: javelins and shields and beaks wrenched from ships. There sat one, holding the Quirinal staff and girt with short robe, his left hand bearing the sacred shield-even Picus, tamer of steeds, whom his bride Circe, smitten with love's longing, struck with her golden rod, and with drugs changed into a bird with plumes of dappled hue. 1 Quirinus (ie. Romulus was Rome's first augur. and as such carried the augur's badges of office-the lituux, or curved staff, and the ance, or sacred shield-while he wore the purple striped toga, or trabea. 200 Tali intus templo divum patriaque Latinus sede sedens Teucros ad sese in tecta vocavit, atque haec ingressis placido prior edidit ore: “dicite, Dardanidae (neque enim nescimus et urbem et genus, auditique advertitis aequore cursum), 196 quid petitis? quae causa rates aut cuius egentis litus ad Ausonium tot per vada caerula vexit? sive errore viae seu tempestatibus acti, qualia multa mari nautae patiuntur in alto, fluminis intrastis ripas portuque sedetis, ne fugite hospitium neve ignorate Latinos Saturni gentem, haud vinclo nec legibus aequam, sponte sua veterisque dei se more tenentem. atque equidem memini (fama est obscurior annis) 205 Auruncos ita ferre senes, his ortus ut agris Dardanus Idaeas Phrygiae penetravit ad urbes Threiciamque Samum, quae nunc Samothracia fertur. hine illum Corythi Tyrrhena ab sede profectum aurea nunc solio stellantis regia caeli accipit et numerum divorum altaribus auget.” Dixerat, et dicta Ilioneus sic voce secutus: 66 rex, genus egregium Fauni, nec fluctibus actos ab love principium generis, Iove Dardana pubes 211 numerom P1: numero P21. addit y1. 210 215 |