Æneid

Eneas fliemeþ Trōia burg (Federico Barocci, 1598)

Sē Æneid is þæt grīetste weorc be Publie Uergilie Maroe, ān þæm woruldra lofweorþigstra scopweorca, oððe on Lædene oððe eleswīse. Æneid is lang beornlēod on twelf bōcum. Æneid hæfþ his nama fram Enease, Trōia Æþeling, sē wæs Uenuse and Anchises suna, Priames nefa.

Sēo talu ne cyþaþ ān spell in ānum endebyrdnese ac hæfþ tale in talum and is tæpped for Eneases spell; hū he seglede fram Troian and staþolede rīce on Italiam. Secgen wæs Uergiles giefu to Rōmwarum and mæste to þæm caserelicum cynne, þæm Iulia cynn, hwæs æðele ætfengon hie wæs Iulus oðre nama Ascanius, Eneas sunu be Creusa, Priames dōhtor. On þissum cynn wæron Iulius Caesar and Octauianus Casere his nefa, and Uergilius wrāt þā weox Rōmes weald; Agustus sige hæde ofer Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, and brōhte Ǣgypt under Rōmes anfealdum hlāfordscipe.

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