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    P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden)

    Editions and translations: English (ed. John Dryden) | English (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | Latin (ed. J. B. Greenough)
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    The throne with his succession shall be fill'd
    Three hundred circuits more: then shall be seen
    Ilia the fair, a priestess and a queen,
    Who, full of Mars, in time, with kindly throes,
    Shall at a birth two goodly boys disclose.
    The royal babes a tawny wolf shall drain:
    Then Romulus his grandsire's throne shall gain,
    Of martial tow'rs the founder shall become,
    The people Romans call, the city Rome.
    To them no bounds of empire I assign,
    Nor term of years to their immortal line.
    Ev'n haughty Juno, who, with endless broils,
    Earth, seas, and heav'n, and Jove himself turmoils;
    At length aton'd, her friendly pow'r shall join,
    To cherish and advance the Trojan line.
    The subject world shall Rome's dominion own,
    And, prostrate, shall adore the nation of the gown.
    An age is ripening in revolving fate
    When Troy shall overturn the Grecian state,
    And sweet revenge her conqu'ring sons shall call,
    To crush the people that conspir'd her fall.
    Then Caesar from the Julian stock shall rise,
    Whose empire ocean, and whose fame the skies
    Alone shall bound; whom, fraught with eastern spoils,
    Our heav'n, the just reward of human toils,
    Securely shall repay with rites divine;
    And incense shall ascend before his sacred shrine.
    Then dire debate and impious war shall cease,
    And the stern age be soften'd into peace:
    Then banish'd Faith shall once again return,
    And Vestal fires in hallow'd temples burn;
    And Remus with Quirinus shall sustain
    The righteous laws, and fraud and force restrain.
    Janus himself before his fane shall wait,
    And keep the dreadful issues of his gate,
    With bolts and iron bars: within remains
    Imprison'd Fury, bound in brazen chains;
    High on a trophy rais'd, of useless arms,
    He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.”


    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1:
    book 1 (general note)

    Further comments from Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil:
    book 1 (general note)

    Cross references from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
    *

    Cross references from Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (eds. J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge):
    2, 553 [ Dum, Dōnec, and Quoad ]: ter centum regnabitur annos, donec geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    4, 502 [Book 4 (d)]

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