296Hardly had the envoys said this, when a varied murmur ran through the troubled lips of the Ausonians: as when rocks check rapid rivers, a roar rises from the pent-up flood and the neighbouring banks resound with splashing waves. 300As soon as their minds were calmed and their anxious lips fell quiet, the king, first calling on the gods, begins from his high throne:
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Vergil · Aeneid XI
Aeneid 11.296–301
The council stirs
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Vergil, Aeneid XI. 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.