ARGUMENT In obedience to oracles the Trojans build a fleet and sail to Thrace (1-18).

Seeking to found a city, they are warned away by the ghost of Polydorus and visit Anius in Ortygia (19-99).

Apollo promises AEneas and his descendants world-wide empire if they return to "the ancient motherland" of Troy,--which Anchises declares to be Crete (100-144).

They reach Crete, only to be again baffled.

Drought and plague interrupt this second attempt to found a city.