[2] "Dextræ se parvus Iulus
Implicuit, sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis."
"His steps scarce matching with my stride."
Mr. Conington's translation hardly renders the fond little touch of the Vergilian phrase, a phrase only possible to a lover of children.
[3] "Me puer Ascanius, capitisque injuria cari,
Quem regno Hesperiæ fraudo et fatalibus arvis."
[4] "Quibus Hector ab oris
Expectate venis?"
[5] "Cur dextræ jungere dextram
Non datur, ac veras audire et reddere voces?"
[6] "O sola infandos Trojæ miserata labores."
[7] "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco."
[8] "Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella."
[9] "Agnosco veteris vestigia ammæ."