5/41 Distrust not, nor esteem These words of idle worth, the coinage of a dream. "Hard by, beneath yon oak-trees, thou shalt see A huge, white swine, and, clustering around Her teats, are thirty young ones, white as she. There Alba's walls renowned, When twice ten times hath rolled the circling year, Called Alba Longa, shall Ascanius found. "Arcadians here, a race of old renown, From Pallas sprung, with king Evander came, And on the hill-side built a chosen town, Called Pallanteum, from their founder's name. Go, and win them to thy side, Bid them as fellows to thy camp, and frame A league. |