163Now throw open Helicon, goddesses, and raise your songs: what band meanwhile accompanies Aeneas from the Tuscan shores, arms his ships and rides the sea.
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Vergil · Aeneid X
Aeneid 10.163–165
Invocation to the Muses
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Vergil, Aeneid X. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.