Syracuse. Virgil (70-19 B.C.). Syracuse. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Italy: Vols. XI-XIII

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.

Syracuse

Virgil (70–19 B.C.)


(From Æneid, Book III) Translated by C. P. Cranch STRETCHING in front of the Sicanian bay
And opposite wave-washed Plemmyrium, lies
An isle, to which the ancients gave the name
Ortygia. Hither, so the legends say,
Alpheus, Elis’ river, underneath	5
The ocean found a secret way, and now
Mingles with Arethusa’s stream, and flows
With the Sicilian waves.