the aeneid translated by robert fitzgerald

He sank his blade in fury in Turnus' chest. Shall I be robbed of you? This wound will comeĪnd from your criminal blood exacts his due.' 'You in your plunder, torn from one of mine, For when the sight came home to him,Īnd terrible in his anger, he called out: Young Pallas wore when Turnus wounded himĪnd left him dead upon the field now TurnusĮnemy still. Shining with its familiar studs-the strap The accurst sword belt surmounting Turnus' shoulder, What Turnus said began to bring him roundįrom indecision. Looked to and fro, and towered, and stayed his hand If you can feel a father's grief-and you, too, 'Cleary I earned this, and I ask no quarter.

So the spirit of Turnus passed into the darkness.' Then he cried with a dreadful voice: 'Shall I spare you when you wear the spoils of my friend? Not so take this it is Pallas slays you.' And he drove his spear into his breast. He might have spared him, but that his eye fell on the belt of Pallas. You had such a one for your own father.Īnd Aeneas stood in doubt. ' I have deserved my fate: take what you have won.

In these passages Turnus is about to be slain by Aeneas. The first is from The Aeneid for Boys and Girls and the last from the translation by Robert Fitzgerald. And experience has shown that reading a children's version makes the prospect of tackling an adult version later on less of a daunting task. It keeps the important parts of the story-line. Although the children's version is considerably shorter, I was much impressed with the content. She and I read 'The Aeneid' as translated by Robert Fitzgerald. I read 'The Aeneid For Boys and Girls' aloud to my son so that he could be in on the conversations between my daughter and I.

The aeneid translated by robert fitzgerald