what they may: fate and Venus have had license enough, 5
in that the Trojans have set foot on the soil of our rich
Ausonia. I, too, have a fate of my own, to mow down
with the sword the guilty nation that has stolen my bride;
that wrong of theirs comes not home to the Atridæ alone,
nor has Mycenæ alone the privilege of going to war. But 10
one destruction is enough for them—aye, had one transgression
been enough, so that they had henceforth loathed
the sex well-nigh to a woman. Men who trust in their intervening
rampart, whom the pause at the trench, those few