114First, four well-matched keels, chosen from the whole fleet, enter the contest with heavy oars. 116Mnestheus drives the swift Pristis with its keen oarsmen, Mnestheus soon to be Italian, from whose name comes the clan of Memmius; 118Gyas drives the huge Chimaera of huge bulk, a city of a ship, which the Dardan youth drive on in three tiers, the oars rising in a triple row; 121Sergestus, from whom the Sergian house takes its name, rides in the great Centaur, and Cloanthus in the sea-blue Scylla, from whom comes your family, Roman Cluentius.
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Vergil · Aeneid V
Aeneid 5.114–123
Four ships enter the race
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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.