Latinus tears his garments as he goes,

Both for his public and his private woes;

With filth his venerable beard besmears,

And sordid dust deforms his silver hairs.

}

{ And much he blames the softness of his mind,

{ Obnoxious to the charms of woman-kind,

{ And soon reduced to change what he so well designed—

To break the solemn league so long desired,

Nor finish what his fates, and those of Troy, required.