![]() ![]() Opposite, rising from the sea, the Cretan land faces this here is the cruel love of the bull, Pasiphaë craftily mated, and the mongrel breed of the Minotaur, a hybrid offspring, record of a monstrous love there that house of toil, a maze inextricable but Daedalus pitying the princess’s great love, himself unwound the deceptive tangle of the palace, guiding blind feet with the thread. On the doors is the death of Androgeos then the children of Cecrops, bidden, alas, to pay as yearly tribute seven living sons there stands the urn, the lots now drawn. Here first restored to earth, he dedicated to thee, Phoebus, the orange of his wings and built a vast temple. Daedalus, it is said, when fleeing from Minos’ realm, dared on swift wings to trust himself to the sky on his unwonted way he floated forth towards the cold North, and at last stood lightly poised above the Chalcidian hill. Now they pass under the grove of Trivia and the roof of gold. But loyal Aeneas seeks the heights, where Apollo sits enthroned, and a vast cavern hard by, hidden haunt of the dread Sibyl, into whom the Delian seer breathes a mighty mind and soul, revealing the future. In hot haste the youthful band leaps forth on the Hesperian shore some seek the seeds of flame hidden in veins of flint, some despoil the woods, the thick coverts of game, and point to new-found streams. They turn the prows seaward, then with the grip of anchors’ teeth made fast the ships, and the round keels fringe the beach. Thus he cries weeping, and gives his fleet the reins, and at last glides up to the shores of Euboean Cumae. BOOKS 7 - 12 AENEID BOOK 6, TRANSLATED BY H.
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