I said farewell, and tears came as I spoke:'Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,While one fate beckons us and then another.Here is your quiet rest: no sea to plow,No quest for dim lands of AusoniaReceding ever. Here before our eyesAre replicas of Xanthus and of TroyYour own hands built -- with better auspices,I pray, and less a challenge to the Greeks.If one day I shall enter Tiber streamAnd Tiber fields and see the walls my peopleHave in store for them, then of these kindredCities, neighboring nations, in EpirusAnd in Hesperia, both looking backTo Dardanus as founder, both to oneSad history, we shall make a single TroyIn spirit: may this task await our heirs.'
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Monday, September 28, 2009
The Aeneid - pg. 83
Labels: Publius Vergilius Maro
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