The Aeneid (lines 1-11)

Arma virumque cano,

I sing of arms and the man

Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam,

who first from the shores of Troy to Italy,

fato profugus,

a fugitive by fate,

Laviniaque venit litora,

comes to the Lavinian shores.

multum ille et terris iactatus et alto

He, having been tossed much both on land and in the deep

vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;

by the strength of the gods, on account of the remembering rage of cruel Juno;

multa quoque et bello passus,

having suffered many things also in war

dum conderet urbem,

in order that he might found a city,

inferretque deos Latio

and introduce the gods into Latium

genus unde Latinum

whence the Latin race

Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae

and the Alban fathers and the walls of lofty Rome.

Musa, mihi causas memora,

O Muse, remember to me the causes

quo numine laeso,

what divine will having been offended

quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus

or grieving at what the queen of the gods so many calamities to undergo

insignem pietate virum

compelled a hero reknown for his piety

tot adire labores impulerit.

to encounter so many labors.

Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Is there such great rage in the minds of the celestial beings?