HarpalyceANCIENT_Vergil





Vergil Aeneid, 1.314-24

[Aeneas'] mother approached him in the middle of the woods
disguised in a girl's face and clothes with a Spartan girl's 315
weapons on. She looked like Thracian Harpalyce when she
breaks horses or outpaces the speedy Hebrus in a footrace.
Like that huntress, Venus had slung the trusty bow over her shoulders
and had let her long hair flow out on the breeze;
barelegged to the knee, she had girt up her flowing dress in a knot. 320
"Hey guys", she accosted them. "Show me, if you've maybe seen one of
my sisters wandering around here.
She's wearing a quiver and a skin of a spotted lynx;
or likely she is hooting, hot on the track of a frothing boar."
     
     — translation RTMacfarlane


     


     Aeneis
1.314-24


cui mater media sese tulit obuia silua
uirginis os habitumque gerens et uirginis arma 315
Spartanae, uel qualis equos Threissa fatigat
Harpalyce uolucremque fuga praeuertitur Hebrum.
namque umeris de more habilem suspenderat arcum
uenatrix dederatque comam diffundere uentis,
nuda genu nodoque sinus collecta fluentis. 320
ac prior 'heus,' inquit, 'iuuenes, monstrate, mearum
uidistis si quam hic errantem forte sororum
succinctam pharetra et maculosae tegmine lyncis,
aut spumantis apri cursum clamore prementem.'