Page:Virgil's Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis - Dryden (1709) - volume 2.djvu/153

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The Second Book of the

ÆNEIS.

The ARGUMENT.

 

Æneas relates how the City of Troy was taken, after a Ten Tears Siege, by the Treachery of Sinon, and the Stratagem of a Wooden Horse. He declares the fixt Resolution be had taken not to survive the Ruins of his Country, and the various Adventures he met with in the Defence of it: at last, having been before advis'd by Hector's Ghost, and now by the Appearance of his Mother Venus, he is prevail'd upon to leave the Town, and settle his Houshold-Gods in another Country. In order to this, he carries off his Father on his Shoulders, and leads his little Son by the Hand, his Wife following him behind. When he comes to the Place appointed for the general Rendezvouze, he finds a great confluence of People, but misses his Wife, whose Ghost afterwards appears to him, and tells him the Land which was design'd for him.

 

ll were attentive to the God-like Man;
When from his lofty couch he thus began.
Great Queen, what you command me to relate,
Renews the sad Remembrance of our Fate.