The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

Æneas: blending in ecstatic love

With brave Anchises on the verdant top

Of Ida, wood-embosom’d, many-valed.

Now [251]Circe, from the Sun Hyperion-born

Descended, with the much-enduring man

Ulysses blending love, Latinus bare,

And Agrius, brave and blameless: far they left

Their native seats in Circe’s hallow’d isles,

And o’er the wide-famed Tyrrhene tribes held sway.

Calypso, noble midst the goddess race,