The Aneid Latin 1 Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris 2 Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit

3 litora-multum ille et terris iactus et alto 4 vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram 5 multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem 6 inferretque deoa Latio- genus unde Latinum 7 Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae. 8 Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso 9 quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus 10 insignem pieatate virum, tot adire labors 11 impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

BkI:1-11 Invocation to the Muse

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I sing of arms and the man, he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy, and to Lavinian shores hurled about endlessly by land and sea, by the will of the gods, by cruel Junos remorseless anger, long suffering also in war, until he founded a city and brought his gods to Latium: from that the Latin people came, the lords of Alba Longa, the walls of noble Rome. Muse, tell me the cause: how was she offended in her divinity, how was she grieved, the Queen of Heaven, to drive a man, noted for virtue, to endure such dangers, to face so many trials? Can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?