“Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab orīs Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram; multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deōs Latiō, genus unde Latīnum, Albānīque patrēs, atque altae moenia Rōmae. Mūsa, mihī causās memorā, quō nūmine laesō, quidve dolēns, rēgīna deum tot volvere cāsūs īnsīgnem pietāte virum, tot adīre labōrēs impulerit. Tantaene animīs caelestibus īrae? sīc volvere Parcās. Tantae mōlis erat Rōmānam condere gentem!” Arms and a man I sing, who first from Troy’s shores, exiled by fate, came to Italy and to the Lavinian seaboard - a man much battered on land and on the deep seas by the powers above, on account of Juno’s unforgetting anger. Greatly too did he suffer in battle up to the time he would found a city and introduce his gods to Latium - Latium, whence ...