...Vergil beginnt sein zwölf Bücher umfassendes Werk mit folgenden Worten: Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit litora. Multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet...

...unfurl'd/ An eastern banner o'er the western world" (413). This echoing of the first lines of the Aeneid ("Anna virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris/ Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit/ litora"; Arms and the man 1 sing, the first who came from the regions of Troy, exiled by fate, to Italy and...

...their particular manner, that distinguished poet Virgil everywhere shows. Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum. For here immediately from the beginning it is evident how he concentrates...