Metamorphoses - Book 15:445

Fire and sword shall give way before you. You'll go on

your mission,

bearing with you the gods that you've snatched from the

flames, until

you come to a strange new land which is kinder to you and

to Troy

than the country you left. I can see a city of Phyrgian

grandsons,

greater than any that is or has been or shall rise hereafter.

Other leaders, over the centuries, will render her powerful;

but one man born of Iulus' blood will make her the

mistress

of all the world. When the earth has enjoyed his presence,

the realms

of the sky will enjoy him too; he is finally destined for

heaven.'

So I remember that Helenus said to the pious Aeneas

bearing his household gods. I rejoice that the walls of my kinsmen

are rising so fast, that the Greeks won a war for the good of

the Trojans.