1.--ARMA virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
I sing of arms and the man, who from Troy of old, left for Italy, a fugitives of fate, to the shores of Latium, during which he suffered many hardships on land and from the cruel memory of Juno, they through hardship and war established in Latium with the Lords of Alba, the stately city of Rome.
