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| Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Letters | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Laws | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden). You can also browse the collection for Tarentum (Italy) or search for Tarentum (Italy) in all documents.
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From hence Tarentum's bay appears in view,
For Hercules renown'd, if fame be true.
Just opposite, Lacinian Juno stands;
Caulonian tow'rs, and Scylacaean strands,
For shipwrecks fear'd. Mount Aetna thence we spy,
Known by the smoky flames which cloud the sky.
Far off we hear the waves with surly sound
Invade the rocks, the rocks their groans rebound.
The billows break upon the sounding strand,
And roll the rising tide, impure with sand.
Then thus Anchises, in experience old:
‘'T is that Charybdis which the seer foretold,
And those the promis'd rocks! Bear off to sea!’
With haste the frighted mariners obey.
First Palinurus to the larboard veer'd;
Then all the fleet by his example steer'd.
To heav'n aloft on ridgy waves we ride,
Then down to hell descend, when they divide;
And thrice our galleys knock'd the stony ground,
And thrice the hollow rocks return'd the sound,
And thrice we saw the stars, that stood with dews around.
The flagging winds forsook us, with the sun;
And, wearied, on