fatal error > predestined wandering (cf. Aen. 1.2, 210.9:8)
5 Full many years, and weetless wandered
Full > Very weetless > unknowing, in ignorance (WUS)
6 From shore to shore, amongst the Libyan sands,
sands > shores, beaches
7 Ere rest he found. Much there he suffered, 8 And many perils passed in foreign lands,
passed > endured
9 To save his people sad from victors' vengeful hands.
309.42
At last in Latium he did arriue,
2 Where he with cruell warre was entertaind
Of th'inland folke, which sought him backe to driue,
4 Till he with old Latinus was constraind,
To contract wedlock: (so the fates ordaind.)
6 Wedlock contract in bloud, and eke in blood
Accomplished, that many deare complaind:
8 The riuall slaine, the victour through the flood
Escaped hardly, hardly praisd his wedlock good.