These were the words Aeneas spoke to them: 400 “Now let your hearts hear this, pay glad attention. Not one of you shall leave without a gift. At race’s end, each one of you shall have two Gnosian shafts that gleam with polished steel, together with an ax embossed with silver. 405 Each one of you who runs shall have these prizes. Three will be given even more rewards and pale-green olive garlands on their heads. The first, as victor, is to have a horse with splendid trappings; and the second takes 410 an Amazonian quiver, full of Thracian arrows and girdled by a broad gold belt— the clasp
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