Aen. 3.147Nox erat, et terrīs animālia somnus habēbat:
effigiēs sacrae dīvom Phrygiīque Penātēs,
quōs mēcum ā Trōiā mediīsque ex ignibus urbis
150extuleram, vīsī ante oculōs adstāre iacentis
in somnīs, multō manifestī lūmine, quā sē
plēna per īnsertās fundēbat lūna fenestrās;It was night, and sleep held living creatures over the earth: the sacred images of the gods, the Phrygian Penates, which I had carried with me from Troy and out of the midst of the burning city, seemed to stand before my eyes as I lay in sleep, clear in a flood of light, where the full moon poured in through the open windows; Aen. 3.153tum sīc adfārī et cūrās hīs dēmere dictīs:
Quod tibi dēlātō Ortygiam dictūrus Apollo est,
155hīc canit, et tua nōs ēn ultrō ad līmina mittit.then they seemed to address me so, and ease my cares with these words: 'What Apollo would tell you if you sailed to Ortygia, he prophesies here, and look, of his own accord he sends us to your threshold. Aen. 3.156Nōs tē, Dardaniā incēnsā, tuaque arma secūtī,
nōs tumidum sub tē permēnsī classibus aequor,
īdem ventūrōs tollēmus in astra nepōtēs,
imperiumque urbī dabimus: tū moenia magnīs
160magna parā, longumque fugae nē linque labōrem.We, who followed you and your arms when Dardania was burnt, we who under your command crossed the swelling sea in ships, we too shall raise your descendants to come to the stars and give empire to their city: you must prepare great walls for the great, and not abandon the long toil of flight.
Aen. 3.161Mūtandae sēdēs: nōn haec tibi lītora suāsit
Dēlius, aut Crētae iussit cōnsīdere Apollo.You must change your home: these were not the shores the Delian urged on you, nor did Apollo bid you settle in Crete. Aen. 3.163Est locus, Hesperiam Grāī cognōmine dīcunt,
terra antīqua, potēns armīs atque ūbere glaebae;There is a place the Greeks call by the name of Hesperia, an ancient land, mighty in arms and in the richness of its soil; Aen. 3.165Oenōtrī coluēre virī;Oenotrian men lived there; Aen. 3.165nunc fāma minōrēs
Ītaliam dīxisse ducis dē nōmine gentem:
hae nōbīs propriae sēdēs;now the story is that their descendants have called the nation Italy after their leader's name: this is our true home; Aen. 3.167hinc Dardanus ortus,
Iasiusque pater, genus ā quō prīncipe nostrum.from here Dardanus sprang, and father Iasius, the founder from whom our race descends. Aen. 3.169Surge age, et haec laetus longaevō dicta parentī
170haud dubitanda refer: Corythum terrāsque requīrat
Ausoniās;Up, then, and gladly report these words, not to be doubted, to your aged father: let him seek Corythus and the Ausonian lands; Aen. 3.171Dictaea negat tibi Iuppiter arva.Jupiter denies you the fields of Dicte.' Aen. 3.172Tālibus attonitus vīsīs et vōce deōrum—
nec sopor illud erat, sed cōram adgnōscere voltūs
vēlātāsque comās praesentiaque ōra vidēbar;Astounded by such visions and by the voice of the gods — nor was that sleep, but I seemed to recognise their faces before me, their veiled hair, their features present to my eyes; Aen. 3.175tum gelidus tōtō mānābat corpore sūdor
corripiō ē strātīs corpus, tendōque supīnās
ad caelum cum vōce manūs, et mūnera lībō
intemerāta focīs.then a cold sweat was streaming over my whole body — I snatch myself from my bed, stretch my upturned hands to heaven with a cry, and pour pure offerings on the hearth.
Aen. 3.178Perfectō laetus honōre
Anchīsēn faciō certum, remque ōrdine pandō.Glad that the rite is completed, I inform Anchises and unfold the matter in order. Aen. 3.180Adgnōvit prōlem ambiguam geminōsque parentēs,
sēque novō veterum dēceptum errōre locōrum.He recognised the twofold lineage and the double ancestors, and that he had been misled by a new error about ancient places. Aen. 3.182Tum memorat: Nāte, Īliacīs exercite fātīs,
sōla mihi tālīs cāsūs Cassandra canēbat.Then he recalls: 'My son, harried by the fates of Ilium, Cassandra alone used to foretell such chances to me. Aen. 3.184Nunc repetō haec generī portendere dēbita nostrō,
185et saepe Hesperiam, saepe Ītala regna vocāre.Now I remember that she foretold this as due to our race, and often spoke of Hesperia, often of Italian realms. Aen. 3.186Sed quis ad Hesperiae ventūrōs lītora Teucrōs
crēderet, aut quem tum vātēs Cassandra movēret?But who would have believed that Teucrians would come to the shores of Hesperia, or whom then would the prophetess Cassandra have moved? Aen. 3.188Cēdāmus Phoebō, et monitī meliōra sequāmur.Let us yield to Phoebus, and, warned, follow the better course.' Aen. 3.189Sīc ait, et cūnctī dictō pārēmus ovantēs.So he speaks, and we all obey his word, rejoicing.
Aen. 3.190Hanc quoque dēserimus sēdem, paucīsque relictīs
vēla damus, vāstumque cavā trabe currimus aequor.This home too we desert, and, leaving a few behind, set sail and run over the vast sea in our hollow timbers.