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what a fate did the father Jove give me to become a sport, when he nurtured me an infant upon the knees of my revered mother! [The city] which the people of Phricon once fortified at the advice of Ægis-bearing Jove, the valiant mounters of swift steeds, contending in the contest of savage fire, Æolian Smyrna, neighbouring on the sea, lashed by the waves, and through which the clear water of sacred Meles passes—hence setting out, the daughters of Jove, glorious children, wished to celebrate the divine earth and city of men. But they rejected the divine voice, the song, I say, through folly. Of whom some one having had experience, will, hereafter, bethink him, because he has brought a rebuke for ever upon them through my fate. †But I will endure the fate, which the god gave to me at my birth, bearing * * * with resolute mind. Nor do my limbs desire to remain in the sacred streets of Cumæ, but my mighty mind urges me, although weak, to go to another people.

Ilium and Dardania renowned for steeds, on account of which the Greeks, the servants of Mars, suffered much.

of Thestor, although there are many things obscure to