Aeneid

Virgil

Vergil. The Aeneid of Virgil. Williams, Theodore, C, translator. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

  1. In such a temple of his gods did Sire
  2. Latinus, on hereditary throne,
  3. welcome the Trojans to his halls, and thus
  4. with brow serene gave greeting as they came:
  5. “O sons of Dardanus, think not unknown
  6. your lineage and city! Rumored far
  7. your venturous voyage has been. What seek ye here?
  8. What cause, what quest, has brought your barks and you
  9. o'er the blue waters to Ausonia's hills?
  10. What way uncharted, or wild stress of storm,
  11. or what that sailors suffer in mid-sea,
  12. unto this river bank and haven bore?
  13. Doubt not our welcome! We of Latin land
  14. are Saturn's sons, whose equitable minds,
  15. not chained by statute or compulsion, keep
  16. in freedom what the god's good custom gave.
  17. Now I bethink me our Ausonian seers
  18. have dark, dim lore that 't was this land gave birth
  19. to Dardanus, who after took his way
  20. through Phrygian Ida's towns and Samothrace.
  21. Once out of Tuscan Corythus he fared;
  22. but now in golden house among the stars
  23. he has a throne, and by his altars blest
  24. adds to the number of the gods we praise.”