"Lycian" Quotes from Famous Books
... come the Phrygian fellows forth; comes forth Iulus glad; 140 Yea and AEneas' very self is of their fellowship, And joins their band: in goodliness all those did he outstrip: E'en such as when Apollo leaves the wintry Lycian shore, And Xanthus' stream, and Delos sees, his mother's isle once more; And halloweth in the dance anew, while round the altars shout The Cretans and the Dryopes, and painted Scythian rout: He steps it o'er the Cynthus' ridge, and leafy crown to hold His flowing tresses doth he weave, and ... — The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil |