Book 4 — JUPITER THUNDERING IN DEFENCE OF ROME:
Reading edition
FROM THE TENTH BOOK.
Ipse refulgebat Tarpeiæ culmine rupis, Elatâ quatiens flagrantia fulmina dextrâ, Jupiter, ac lati fumabant sulphure campi, Et gelidis Anio trepidabat cœrulus undis: Et densi ante oculos iterùmque iterùmque tremendum Vibrabant ignes....
High on the rock, the God, with furious look, From side to side his burning thunder shook: Now here, now there, the scattering lightnings broke, And the wide vallies flamed, and glowed with sulphurous smoke: Contagious terror roll'd from plain to plain; Cold Anio trembled in his watery reign; And dazzled by the withering flames, o'eraw'd, The chief shrunk back, and own'd the present God.