‘Æneas (taking thence Ascanius, his young son,
‘From shoals of slaughtering Greeks) set out from Simois’ shores,
‘And through the Tyrrhene sea, by strength of toiling oars,
‘Raught Italy at last; where King Latinus lent
‘Safe harbour for his ships, with wrackful tempests rent:
‘When in the Latin court, Lavinia young and fair,
‘Her father’s only child, and kingdom’s only heir,
‘Upon the Trojan Lord her liking strongly plac’d,
‘And languish’d in the fires that her fair breast embrac’d:
‘But Turnus (at that time) the proud Rutulian King,