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Quotation from The Aeneid by Virgil
“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore”
The Aeneid, Book I, trans. John Dryden (1697)
The epic opens by naming war, exile, divine opposition, and Aeneas as its central subject.
Citation: "Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore" — Virgil, The Aeneid, Book I, trans. John Dryden (1697). (id the-aeneid-q1)
Portrait: Parco della Grotta di Posillipo5 (crop), Armando Mancini, Public domain.
