Here bulged the pride of famed Ulysses’ fleet, + 

But good Aeneas ’scaped the fate he met. + 

As to the Latian shore the Trojan stood, + 

And cut with well-timed oars the foaming flood, + 

He weather’d fell Charybdis; but ere long + 

The skies were darken’d, and the tempest strong; + 

Then to the Libyan coast he stretches o’er, + 

And makes at length the Carthaginian shore. + 

Here Dido, with a hospitable care, + 

Into her heart receives the wanderer. + 

From her kind arms the ungrateful hero flies, + 

The injured queen looks on with dying eyes, + 

Then to her folly falls a sacrifice. + 

Aeneas now sets sail, and plying gains + 

Fair Eryx, where his friend Acestes reigns: + 

First to his sire does funeral rites decree, + 

Then gives the signal next, and stands to sea, + 

Outruns the islands where volcanoes roar, + 

Gets clear of sirens and their faithless shore; + 

But loses Palinurus in the way; + 

Then makes Inarime and Prochyta. + 