Arma virumque cano,
"Arms and a man I sing,"
Troiae qui primus ab oris ...
"who first from the region of Troy"
Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit ... litora,
"to Italy by fate a fugitive even he came to Lavinian ... shores,"
... multum ille et terris iactatus et alto ... vi superum
"that man tossed greatly both on lands and on high ... by the force of the gods"
... saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
"because of the mindful wrath of savage Juno,"
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
"many things also even in war having suffered, until he might found the city"
inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum
"and might convey the gods to Latium; whence [came] the Roman race"
Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
"and the Alban fathers and the walls of high Rome."
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