Allen Mandelbaum

“Euryalus, is itthe gods who put this fire in our minds,or is it that each man's relentless longingbecomes a god to him?”

“For other peoples will, I do not doubt,still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features,or draw out of the marble living lines,plead causes better, trace the ways of heavenwith wands and tell the rising constellations;but yours will be the rulership of nations,remember Roman, these will be your arts:to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer,to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.”

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fatehad made him fugitive; he was the firstto journey from the coasts of Troy as faras Italy and the Lavinian shores.”