Book I.1-11

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit
litora-multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
inferretque deos Latio-genus unde Latinum
Albanique patres atque altae moenia romae.
Musa mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus
insignem pietate virum tot adire labores
impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

I sing of wars and a man, who came first from the shores of Troy
to Italy and the Lavinian shoreline a fugitive from
fate-that man was tossed a great deal on the lands and sea
by the power of the gods,