35But Acestes, marvelling from far off on the high summit of a mountain at the arrival of friendly ships, runs to meet them, bristling with javelins and the hide of a Libyan she-bear; a Trojan mother bore him, conceived by the river Crinisus: not forgetful of his ancestors, he rejoices at their return, gladly welcomes them with rustic riches, and comforts the weary with friendly abundance.
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Vergil · Aeneid V
Aeneid 5.35–41
Acestes welcomes the Trojans
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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.