“O you who are done, at last, with those great dangers that lie upon the sea—worse wait on land— the sons of Dardanus will reach Lavinium’s kingdom (for you can now be sure of this) 120 and yet shall wish that they had never come. I see wars, horrid wars, the Tiber foaming with much blood. You shall have your Simois, your Xanthus, and your Doric camp; already there is in Latium a new Achilles— 125 he, too, son of a goddess. Nor will Juno fail anywhere to hound the Teucrians, while you, a beggar in your need, implore the towns, the tribes through all of Italy! The cause of so much Trojan
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