1. AENEAS

2. Nōn tamen ēversam Trōiae cum moenibus esse spem quoque fāta sinunt

3. sacra et, sacra altera, patrem
sacra et, sacra altera, patrem fert umerīs, venerābile onus, Cytherēius hērōs Dē tantīs opibus praedam pius ēligit illam Ascaniumque suum

4. intrat Apollineam sociīs comitantibus urbem
intrat Apollineam sociīs comitantibus urbem. Tunc Anius illum templōque domōque recēpit

5. [Anius]urbemque ostendit dēlūbraque nōta duāsque Lātōnā quondam stirpēs pariente retentās. 

6. ... prōsequitur rēx et dat mūnus itūrīs, Anchīsae sceptrum, chlamydem pharetramque nepōtī,              crātēra Aenēae

7. ante urbem exequiae tumulīque ignēsque pyraeque effūsaeque comās et apertae pectora mātrēs significant luctum;

8. Sīciliam: tribus haec excurrit in aequora linguīs, Scylla latus dextrum, laevum inrequiēta Charybdis īnfestat;

9. [Scylla] ferīs canibus succingitur , illa etiam nunc virginis ōra gerēns, et, sī nōn omnia vātēs ficta relīquērunt, aliquō quoque tempore virgō:

10. cum iam prope lītus adessent Ausonium, Libycās ventō referuntur ad ōrās.

11. nōn bene discidium Phrygiī lātūra marītī Sīdonis; inque pyrā sacrī sub imāgine factā                incubuit ferrō dēceptaque dēcipit omnēs.

12. Poēta Vergilius inter Mūsās historiae tragoediaeque sedet

13. Arma virumque canō, Troiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit lītora

14. multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram; multa quoque et bellō passus, dum conderet urbem

15. inferretque deōs Latiō, genus unde Latīnum, Albānīque patrēs, atque altae moenia Rōmae.

16. Atque utinam rēx ipse Notō compulsus eōdem adforet Aenēās!

17. At Cytherēa novās artēs, nova pectore versat cōnsilia, ut faciem mūtātus et ōra Cupīdō prō dulcī Ascaniō veniat, dōnīsque furentem incendat rēgīnam, atque ossibus implicet ignem;

18. Lāocoōn ardēns summā dēcurrit ab arce, et procul: “Ō miserī, quae tanta īnsānia, cīvēs?

19. Text reprinted from Latin Via Ovid, A First Course, Second Edition, by Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis, copyright © 1982 Wayne State University Press, with the permission of Wayne State University Press.