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Vergil · Aeneid V

Aeneid 5.604–622

Iris stirs the Trojan women

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604Here first fortune changed and broke faith. 605While they are paying the solemn rites to the tomb with various games, Saturn's daughter Juno sent Iris down from heaven to the Ilian fleet, and breathes winds behind her as she goes, plotting much, her ancient grievance not yet sated. 609The maiden, speeding her way along the rainbow of a thousand colours, seen by none, runs down her swift path. 611She sees the vast gathering, and surveys the shores, and sees the harbours deserted and the fleet abandoned. 613But far off, apart on a lonely beach, the Trojan women were weeping for lost Anchises, and all, as they wept, were gazing at the deep sea.

615'Alas, that so many waters, and so much sea, remain for us in our weariness!' 616was the one cry of all. 617They pray for a city; 617they are weary of enduring the toil of the sea. 618So into their midst, not unskilled in doing harm, she throws herself, and lays aside the face and dress of a goddess; 620she becomes Beroe, the aged wife of Tmarian Doryclus, who had once had family, and name, and sons; 622and thus she comes into the midst of the Dardan mothers:

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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.