Aen. 8.126Tum rēgem Aenēās dictīs adfātur amīcīs:
Optume Grāiugenum, cui mē Fortūna precārī
et vittā cōmptōs voluit praetendere rāmōs,
nōn equidem extimuī, Danaum quod ductor et Arcas
130quodque ā stirpe forēs geminīs coniūnctus Atrīdīs;Then Aeneas addresses the king with friendly words: 'Best of the Greek-born, to whom Fortune has willed that I should pray and hold out branches decked with fillets, I did not fear you because you were a leader of the Danaans and an Arcadian, and because you were linked by descent to the twin sons of Atreus; Aen. 8.131sed mea mē virtūs et sāncta ōrācula dīvom
cognātīque patrēs, tua terrīs dīdita fāma,
coniūnxēre tibi et fātīs ēgēre volentem.but my own courage and the holy oracles of the gods and our kindred fathers, and your fame spread across the earth, have joined me to you and led me willing by the fates. Aen. 8.134Dardanus, Īliacae prīmus pater urbis et auctor,
135Ēlectrā, ut Grāī perhibent, Atlantide crētus,
advehitur Teucrōs;Dardanus, first father and founder of the city of Ilium, born, as the Greeks relate, of Electra, daughter of Atlas, comes to the Teucrians; Aen. 8.136Ēlectram maxumus Atlās
ēdidit, aetheriōs umerō quī sustinet orbēs
vōbīs Mercurius pater est, quem candida Māia
Cyllēnae gelidō conceptum vertice fūdit;Electra was begotten by mighty Atlas, who bears the spheres of heaven on his shoulder; your father is Mercury, whom fair Maia conceived and brought forth on the cold summit of Cyllene; Aen. 8.140at Māiam, audītīs sī quicquam crēdimus, Atlās,
īdem Atlās generat, caelī quī sīdera tollit.but Maia, if we put any trust in what we hear, was begotten by Atlas, that same Atlas who holds up the stars of the sky.
Aen. 8.142Sīc genus ambōrum scindit sē sanguine ab ūnō.So the race of both of us divides from a single blood. Aen. 8.143Hīs frētus nōn lēgātōs neque prīma per artem
temptāmenta tuī pepigī: mē, mē ipse meumque
145obiēcī caput et supplex ad līmina vēnī.Relying on this, I did not arrange envoys or first approaches to you by craft: myself, myself and my own life I have exposed, and come as a suppliant to your threshold. Aen. 8.146Gēns eadem, quae tē, crūdēlī Daunia bellō
īnsequitur;The same Daunian people that pursues you pursues us with cruel war; Aen. 8.147nōs sī pellant, nihil āfore crēdunt,
quīn omnem Hesperiam penitus sua sub iuga mittant
et mare quod suprā teneant quodque adluit īnfrā.if they drive us out, they believe nothing will prevent them from sending all Hesperia wholly under their yoke and holding the sea that washes it above and the sea below. Aen. 8.150Accipe dāque fidem: sunt nōbīs fortia bellō
pectora, sunt animī et rēbus spectāta iuventūs.Receive and give a pledge of faith: we have hearts brave in war, we have spirit and young men proved in action.'