which Neptune reared, became one levelled smoking ruin,

we are driven by auguries from heaven to look elsewhere 5

for the exile’s home in lands yet unpeopled. We build us

a fleet under the shadow of Antandros,[140] and the range of

our own Phrygian Ida, all uncertain whither fate may

carry us, where it may be our lot to settle, and muster

men for sailing. Scarcely had summer set in, when my 10

father, Anchises, was bidding us spread our sails to destiny.

Then I give my last tearful look to my country’s shores

and her harbours, and those plains where Troy once stood