{"id":285,"date":"2008-04-01T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/01\/aeneid-book-one\/"},"modified":"2013-01-07T00:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:49:12","slug":"aeneid-book-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/01\/aeneid-book-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil, from <i>The Aeneid<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The commander&#8217;s words relieve their stricken hearts.<br \/>\n&#8220;My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now,<br \/>\nwe all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us<br \/>\nan end to this as well. You&#8217;ve threaded the rocks<br \/>\nresounding with Scylla&#8217;s howling rabid dogs,<br \/>\nand taken the brunt of the Cyclops&#8217; boulders, too.<br \/>\nCall up your courage again. Dismiss your grief and fear.<\/p>\n<p>A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.<br \/>\nThrough so many hard straits, so many twists and turns<br \/>\nour course holds firm for Latium. There Fate holds out<br \/>\na homeland, calm, at peace. There the gods decree<br \/>\nthe kingdom of Troy will rise gain. Bear up.<br \/>\nSave your strength for better times to come.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"robert-fagles-headshot.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/robert-fagles-headshot.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"201\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0670038032\">Robert Fagles&#8217; 2006 translation of <i>The Aeneid<\/i><\/a>, which had been long awaited after his earlier work on <i>The Iliad<\/i> and <i>The Odyssey<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/29\/books\/29fagles.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">Fagles died last week<\/a>; he was 74.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, many of his peers and admirers gathered in New York for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/lecture_circuit\/literati_pay_tribute_to_robert_fagles_73023.asp\">a celebration of his legacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(photo: Laura Pedrick\/NYT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commander&#8217;s words relieve their stricken hearts. &#8220;My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now, we all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us an end to this as well. You&#8217;ve threaded the rocks resounding with Scylla&#8217;s howling rabid dogs, and taken the brunt of the Cyclops&#8217; boulders, too. Call up your courage again. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[502,500,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}