dais quotes

Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant Inde toro paterAeneas sic orsus ab alto. They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy's Chieftain, began to speak.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, bk.2, l.1^2 (translated byW F Jackson Knight).