—Conington.

I sing of arms, and of the man who first

Came from the coasts of Troy to Italy

And the Lavinian shores, exiled by fate,

Much was he tossed about upon the lands

And in the ocean by supernal powers,

Because of cruel Juno’s sleepless wrath.

Many things also suffered he in war,

Until he built a city, and his gods

Brought into Latium; whence the Latin race,