Book 5.104-113
The awaited day of the games arrives and prizes are displayed. The games begin.
Exspectata dies aderat, nonamque serena
104
Auroram Phaethontis equi iam luce vehebant,
105
famaque finitimos et clari nomen Acestae
106
excierat; laeto complerant litora coetu,
107
visuri Aeneadas, pars et certare parati.
108
Munera principio ante oculos circoque locantur
109
in medio, sacri tripodes viridesque coronae,
110
et palmae pretium victoribus, armaque et ostro
111
perfusae vestes, argenti aurique talenta;
112
et tuba commissos medio canit aggere ludos.
113