175When this was said, he orders the food and the cups that had been taken away to be set back, and himself places the men on a seat of turf, and welcomes Aeneas above all to a couch with the skin of a shaggy lion, and invites him to a maple throne. 179Then chosen young men and the priest of the altar eagerly bring the roasted flesh of bulls, and heap baskets with the gifts of laboured Ceres, and serve the wine of Bacchus. 182Aeneas and the Trojan youth together feast on the long chine of an ox and the sacrificial entrails.
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Vergil · Aeneid VIII
Aeneid 8.175–183
The feast for Hercules
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Vergil, Aeneid VIII. 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.