Aeneid at my pace: Chapter I (continues)

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio;

- until he brought a city into being and carried in his gods to Latium;

genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae

- and that was the origin of the Latin race, the Lords of Alba, and the proud battlements of Rome.

Musa, mihi causas memora,

- Tell me the reason, Muse:

quo numine laeso quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit.