Aeneid 6 305-316

huc omnis turba ad ripas effusa ruebat,

huc omnis turba ad ripas effusa ruebat,

Here all the crowd streams, hurrying to the shores,

matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita

women and men, the lifeless bodies of noble heroes,

magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae,

boys and unmarried girls,

impositique rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum:

sons laid on the pyre in front of their father's eyes:

quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo

as many as the leaves that fall in the woods

lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto

at the first frost of autumn, as many as the birds

quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus

that flock to land from ocean deeps, when the cold of the year

trans pontum fugat et terris immittit apricis.

drives them abroad and despatches them to sunnier countries.

stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum

They stood there, pleading to be first to make the crossing,

tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

stretching out their hands in longing for the far shore.

navita sed tristis nunc hos nunc accipit illos,

But the dismal boatman accepts now these, now those,

ast alios longe summotos arcet harena.

but driving others away, keeps them far from the sand.