Their birth derived—hence Rome’s proud fabric sprung.

—Rickards.

(In hexameters.)

Arms and the hero I sing, who of old from the borders of Troja

Came to Italia, banished by fate to Lavinia’s destined

Sea coasts: Much was he tossed on the lands and the deep by enlisted

Might of supernals, through Juno’s remembered resentment:

Much, too, he suffered in warfare, while he was founding a city,

And into Latium bearing his gods: whence issued the Latin

Race, and the Alban fathers, and walls of imperial Roma.