I sing of arms and the man, who came first to the Trojan shores and to Italy and Lavinian shores as an exile because of fate. He, having been thrown about by the power of the gods on lands and sea on account of the unforgettable anger of savage Juno. He suffered many things both in war and he carried the gods from whom came the Latin people and the fathers of Alba Longa, and the high walls of Rome.

     Muse, recall to me the reasons, with the divinity having been offended, or what suffering the queen o the gods drove the man of remarkable devotion to undergo so many misfortunes to encounter. Are the angers so great of the heavenly minds? There was an ancient city, the Tyrians held Carthage, opposed to Italy at the mouth of the Tiber, far off, rich in wealth, the most fierce with respect to the study of war, whom Juno is said to have cherished alone more than the whole earth.

     Samo, having been subordinate, here was her arms, here her chariot, the goddess cared for and cherished the hope that this city would be the kingdom of the races, if only the Fates allowed.

     She had heard that a race would be led by Trojan blood, which would overturn the Tyrian citadels; from this place a people would come to Libya ruling widely and proudly in war and destruction. She had heard the Fates had turned. Fearing this, mindful of the Trojan war, which she had first waged at Troy on behalf of the dear Greeks. Not yet had the causes dropped out from her mind, fallen the savage sorrows. The judgement of Paris, injury of the rejected beauty, and the hated race, the honors of stolen Ganymede stay deep in her mind. These things inflamed, she was restraining the Trojans having been tossed about the sea, the survivors of the Greeks, the merciless Achilles, far from Latium. They wandered for many years, having been driven by fate around all the seas. How massive it was to found the Roman race.

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