104The awaited day had come, and the horses of Phaethon were now bearing in the ninth Dawn in clear light, and rumour and the name of famous Acestes had roused the neighbouring people; 107they had filled the shores in a happy throng, to see the sons of Aeneas, and some ready to compete. 109First the prizes are set before their eyes in the middle of the course: sacred tripods and green garlands, and palms, the reward for the victors, and armour and robes steeped in purple, talents of silver and gold; 113and from the central mound the trumpet sounds that the games have begun.
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Vergil · Aeneid V
Aeneid 5.104–113
Crowds gather for the games
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Vergil, Aeneid V. 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.