192In such a temple of the gods, seated on his ancestral throne, Latinus called the Teucrians to him into the palace, and as they entered he spoke first, with a calm face: 'Tell me, sons of Dardanus (for we do not fail to know your city and your race, and we had heard of you before you turned your course over the sea), what do you seek? 197What cause, or what need, has carried your ships to the Ausonian shore over so many blue waters? 199Whether you have entered the river's banks and lie in our harbour driven by a mistake of the way or by storms, such as sailors often suffer on the deep sea, do not shun our hospitality, and do not fail to know the Latins, the people of Saturn, upright not through constraint or laws but of their own free will, keeping to the custom of the ancient god.
205And indeed I remember (the story is dimmer through the years) that the old men of the Aurunci told how Dardanus, born in these lands, made his way to the Idaean cities of Phrygia and to Thracian Samos, which is now called Samothrace. 209From here he set out, from the Tyrrhenian home of Corythus, and now the golden palace of the starry heaven receives him on a throne, and with his altars he swells the number of the gods.'