"Son, bestir yourself,Call up the Zephyrs, take to your wings and glide.Approach the Dardan captain where he tarriesRapt in Tyrian Carthage, losing sightOf future towns the fates ordain. Correct him,Carry my speech to him on the running winds:No son like this did his enchanting motherPromise to us, nor such did she deliverTwice from peril at the hands of Greeks.He was to be the ruler of Italy,Potential empire, armorer of war;To father men from Teucer's noble bloodAnd bring the whole world under law's dominion.If glories to be won by deeds like theseCannot arouse him, if he will not striveFor his own honor, does he begrudge his son,Ascanius, the high strongholds of Rome?What has he in mind? What hope, to make him stayAmid a hostile race, and lose from viewAusonian progeny, Lavinian lands?The man should sail: that is the whole pointLet this be what you tell him, as from me."
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Monday, September 28, 2009
The Aeneid - pg. 103
Labels: Publius Vergilius Maro
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