541When he had said these words, he rises from his high seat, and first rouses the altars slumbering with Herculean fires, and gladly approaches the household god of yesterday and the humble Penates: Evander and the Trojan youth alike sacrifice chosen two-year-old sheep according to custom. 546After this he goes to the ships and visits his comrades again. 547From their number he chooses those outstanding in courage to follow him into war; 548the rest are carried downstream on the water and float idly down the favouring river, to come as messengers to Ascanius of events and of his father. 551Horses are given to the Teucrians as they make for the Tyrrhenian fields; 552they lead out a special one for Aeneas, which a tawny lion's hide covers entirely, gleaming with golden claws.
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Vergil · Aeneid VIII
Aeneid 8.541–553
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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.