Aeneas erects a trophy of the weapons of Mezentius by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 327 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677
"Scarce had the rosy Morning rais’d her head
Above the waves, and left her wat’ry bed;
The pious chief, whom double cares attend
For his unburied soldiers and his friend,
Yet first to Heav’n perform’d a victor’s vows:
He bar’d an ancient oak of all her boughs;
Then on a rising ground the trunk he plac’d,
Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac’d.
The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn,
Now on a naked snag in triumph borne,
Was hung on high, and glitter’d from afar,
A trophy sacred to the God of War.
Above his arms, fix’d on the leafless wood,
Appear’d his plumy crest, besmear’d with blood:
His brazen buckler on the left was seen;
Truncheons of shiver’d lances hung between;
And on the right was placed his corslet, bor’d;
And to the neck was tied his unavailing sword."
-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 11
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| Aeneas erects a trophy of the weapons of Mezentius by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 327) 1607-1677. |
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