Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin’d town His banish’d gods restor’d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. Dido, by a device of Venus, begins to have a passion for him, and, after some discourse with him, desires the history of his adventures since the siege of Troy, which is the subject of the two following books.Īrms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Æneas, going out to discover the country, meets his mother in the shape of an huntress, who conveys him in a cloud to Carthage, where he sees his friends whom he thought lost, and receives a kind entertainment from the queen.

Jupiter comforts her, and sends Mercury to procure him a kind reception among the Carthaginians. Venus complains to Jupiter of her son’s misfortunes. Æneas, with his own ship, and six more, arrives safe at an African port. Neptune drives off the Winds, and calms the sea.

The tempest sinks one, and scatters the rest. The Trojans, after a seven years’ voyage, set sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a dreadful storm, which Æolus raises at Juno’s request.

Doing It Right by Bronwen Pardes