Me patris Anchisae, quotiens umentibus umbris
nox operit terras, quotiens astra ignea surgunt,
admonet in somnis et turbida terret imago;
me puer Ascanius capitisque iniuria cari,
quem regno Hesperiae fraudo et fatalibus arvis.
Nunc etiam interpres divom, Iove missus ab ipso---
testor utrumque caput---celeris mandata per auras
detulit; ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi
intrantem muros, vocemque his auribus hausi.
Desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis:
Italiam non sponte sequor.'

The troubled shade of my father, as often as night covers
the lands in dewy darkness, as often as the fiery stars alight
he admonishes and terrifies me in my sleep
My son Ascanius, and the injury of someone dear, occurs to me
whom I cheat of the rule of the Hesperian Kingdom
and of his destined lands
Now even the messenger of the gods, sent by Jupiter himself
I swear by both of our lives - bought down the orders through
the swift breezes, I myself saw the god in the light of day,
entering the city walls, I drank in the voice through these ears
Cease to set both of us aflame with your lamenting complaints.
I do not seek Italy of my own will"