§1.59.1Αἰνείου δὲ ἐπαινέσαντος τὰ λεγόμενα γίνονται συνθῆκαι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐφʼ ὁρκίων τοιαίδε· Ἀβοριγῖνας μὲν Τρωσὶ δοῦναι χώραν ὅσην ἠξίουν ἀμφὶ τοὺς τετταράκοντα σταδίους πανταχοῦ πορευομένοις ἀπὸ τοῦ λόφου· Τρῶας δὲ Ἀβοριγῖσι τοῦ τʼ ἐν χερσὶ πολέμου συλλαβέσθαι καὶ ὅπου ἂν ἄλλῃ παρακαλῶνται συστρατεύειν· κοινῇ δὲ ἀμφοτέρους τὰ κράτιστα ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων πράττειν καὶ χειρὶ καὶ γνώμῃ.
When Aeneas approved of what was said, a treaty was made between the nations under oath, as follows: that the Aborigines should give the Trojans as much land as they demanded, about forty stades in all directions for those departing from the hill; that the Trojans should assist the Aborigines in the war currently on their hands, and campaign with them wherever else they might be summoned; and that both in common should act in the best interest of each other, with both hand and mind.
§1.59.2συνθέμενοι δὲ ταῦτα καὶ τέκνων ὁμηρείαις τὰς πίστεις βεβαιώσαντες κοινῇ στρατεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις τῶν Ῥοτόλων· διʼ ὀλίγου δὲ τἀκεῖ πάντα χειρωσάμενοι παρῆσαν ἐπὶ τὸ πόλισμα τὸ Τρωικὸν ἡμιτελὲς ἔτʼ ὂν καὶ μιᾷ προθυμίᾳ πάντες χρώμενοι τειχίζουσιν αὐτό.
Having agreed on these terms and confirmed their pledges by the giving of their children as hostages, they campaigned in common against the cities of the Rutulians; and having in a short time subdued everything there, they returned to the Trojan town, which was still half-finished, and all employing one and the same zeal, they walled it.
§1.59.3ὄνομα δὲ τῷ κτίσματι Αἰνείας τίθεται Λαουΐνιον, ὡς μὲν αὐτοὶ Ῥωμαῖοι λέγουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς Λατίνου θυγατρός, ᾗ Λαῦναν εἶναί φασι τοὔνομα· ὡς δʼ ἄλλοι τινὲς τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν μυθογράφων ἔλεξαν, ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀνίου τοῦ Δηλίων βασιλέως θυγατρός, Λαύνας καὶ τῆς2δε ὀνομαζομένης, ἧς ἀποθανούσης νόσῳ περὶ τὸν οἰκισμὸν τῆς πόλεως πρώτης καὶ ἐν ᾧ ἔκαμε χωρίῳ ταφείσης μνῆμα γενέσθαι τὴν πόλιν.
Aeneas gave the name Lavinium to the settlement, as the Romans themselves say, after the daughter of Latinus, whose name they say was Launa; but as some other of the Greek mythographers have said, after the daughter of Anius, the king of the Delians, she too being named Launa, who died of illness around the first founding of the city and was buried in the place where she died, so that the city became her monument.
συμπλεῦσαι δʼ αὐτὴν τοῖς Τρωσὶ λέγεται δοθεῖσαν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς Αἰνείᾳ δεηθέντι μαντικὴν οὖσαν καὶ σοφήν.
It is said that she had sailed with the Trojans, having been given by her father to Aeneas at his request, as she was prophetic and wise.
§1.59.4λέγεται δὲ κατὰ τὸν πολισμὸν τοῦ Λαουϊνίου σημεῖα τοῖς Τρωσὶ γενέσθαι τοιάδε· πυρὸς αὐτομάτως ἀναφθέντος ἐκ τῆς νάπης λύκον μὲν κομίζοντα τῷ στόματι τῆς ξηρᾶς ὕλης ἐπιβάλλειν ἐπὶ τὸ πῦρ, ἀετὸν δὲ προσπετόμενον ἀναρριπίζειν τῇ κινήσει τῶν πτερύγων τὴν φλόγα· τούτοις δὲ τἀναντία μηχανωμένην ἀλώπεκα τὴν οὐρὰν διάβροχον ἐκ τοῦ ποταμοῦ φέρουσαν ἐπιρραπίζειν τὸ καιόμενον πῦρ, καὶ τοτὲ μὲν τοὺς ἀνάπτοντας ἐπικρατεῖν, τοτὲ δὲ τὴν ἀποσβέσαι βουλομένην· τέλος δὲ νικῆσαι τοὺς δύο, καὶ τὴν ἑτέραν οἴχεσθαι μηδὲν ἔτι ποιεῖν δυναμένην.
And it is said that during the founding of Lavinium, the following portents appeared to the Trojans: when a fire broke out spontaneously from the forest, a wolf brought dry wood in its mouth and threw it onto the fire, and an eagle, flying near, fanned the flame with the motion of its wings; but a fox, scheming the opposite of these, brought its tail wet from the river and beat the burning fire, and at one time those who were kindling the fire prevailed, and at another time she who wished to extinguish it; but in the end the two conquered, and the other departed, being able to do nothing more.
§1.59.5ἰδόντα δὲ τὸν Αἰνείαν εἰπεῖν ὡς ἐπιφανὴς μὲν ἔσται καὶ θαυμαστὴ καὶ γνώσεως ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἥξουσα ἡ ἀποικία, ἐπίφθονος δὲ τοῖς πέλας αὐξομένη καὶ λυπηρά, κρατήσει δʼ ὅμως τῶν ἀντιπραττόντων κρείττονα τὴν ἐκ τοῦ θείου τύχην λαβοῦσα τοῦ παρʼ ἀνθρώπων ἐναντιωσομένου φθόνου.
Seeing this, Aeneas said that the colony would be illustrious and wonderful and would reach the greatest fame, but as it grew, it would be envied by its neighbors and troublesome to them, but it would nevertheless overcome its opponents, having received from the divine a fortune stronger than the envy that would oppose it from men.
ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὕτω περιφανῆ μηνύματα λέγεται γενέσθαι τῶν συμβησομένων τῇ πόλει, καὶ ἔστιν αὐτῶν μνημεῖα ἐν τῇ Λαουϊνιατῶν ἀγορᾷ χαλκᾶ εἴδωλα τῶν ζῴων ἐκ πολλοῦ πάνυ χρόνου διατηρούμενα.
Indeed, these are said to have been such clear indicators of what would happen to the city, and there are monuments of them in the forum of the Lavinians, bronze images of the animals, preserved from a very ancient time.