§1.1.1iam primum omnium satis constat Troia capta in ceteros saevitum esse Troianos; duobus, Aeneae Antenorique, et vetusti iure hospitii et quia pacis reddendaeque Helenae semper auctores fuerunt, omne ius belli Achivos abstinuisse; §1.1.2casibus deinde variis Antenorem cum multitudine Enetum, qui seditione ex Paphlagonia pulsi et sedes et ducem rege Pylaemene ad Troiam amisso quaerebant, venisse in intimum maris Hadriatici sinum, §1.1.3Euganeisque, qui inter mare Alpesque incolebant, pulsis Enetos Troianosque eas tenuisse terras.
Now, first of all, it is sufficiently established that, although after the capture of Troy the other Trojans were treated with cruelty, in the case of two, Aeneas and Antenor, the Achaeans refrained from every right of war, both by the law of an ancient hospitality and because they had always been advocates of peace and of returning Helen; then, through various fortunes, Antenor, with a multitude of the Eneti, who, having been driven from Paphlagonia by a sedition, were seeking both a home and a leader, their king Pylaemenes having been lost at Troy, came into the innermost bay of the Adriatic Sea; and, the Euganei, who dwelt between the sea and the Alps, having been driven out, the Eneti and the Trojans occupied those lands.
et in quem primum egressi sunt locum, Troia vocatur.
Indeed, the place where they first landed is called Troy.
pagoque inde Troiano nomen est; gens universa Veneti appellati.
From this, the district too has the name Trojan; the nation as a whole is called Veneti.
§1.1.4Aeneam ab simili clade domo profugum, sed ad maiora rerum initia ducentibus fatis primo in Macedoniam venisse, inde in Siciliam quaerentem sedes delatum, ab Sicilia classe ad Laurentem agrum tenuisse.
Aeneas, a fugitive from home by a similar disaster, but with the fates leading him to greater beginnings of things, came first to Macedonia, thence was carried down to Sicily seeking a home, and from Sicily held his course with his fleet to the Laurentine territory.
Troia et huic loco nomen est.
To this place also the name is Troy.
§1.1.5ibi egressi Troiani, ut quibus ab inmenso prope errore nihil praeter arma et naves superesset, cum praedam ex agris agerent, Latinus rex Aboriginesque, qui tum ea tenebant loca, ad arcendam vim advenarum armati ex urbe atque agris concurrunt.
There the Trojans landed, and since, after their almost endless wandering, nothing remained to them except their arms and ships, they were driving plunder from the fields; Latinus the king and the Aborigines, who then held those places, rushed together armed from the city and the fields to repel the violence of the strangers.
§1.1.6duplex inde fama est: alii proelio victum Latinum pacem cum Aenea, deinde affinitatem iunxisse tradunt; §1.1.7alii, cum instructae acies constitissent, priusquam signa canerent, processisse Latinum inter primores ducemque advenarum evocasse ad conloquium; percunctatum deinde, qui mortales essent, unde aut quo casu profecti domo quidve quaerentes in agrum Laurentem exissent, §1.1.8postquam audierit multitudinem Troianos esse, ducem Aeneam, filium Anchisae et Veneris, cremata patria domo profugos sedem condendaeque urbi locum quaerere, et nobilitatem admiratum gentis virique et animum vel bello vel paci paratum dextra data fidem futurae amicitiae sanxisse.
From this point the story is twofold: some hand down that Latinus, conquered in battle, made peace with Aeneas and then formed an alliance by marriage; others, that when the battle lines had stood drawn up, before the signals sounded, Latinus advanced among the foremost ranks and called the leader of the strangers to a parley; he then inquired who they were, whence or by what fortune they had set out from home, or what they were seeking when they landed in the Laurentine territory; and after he heard that the multitude were Trojans, that their leader was Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Venus, and that, fugitives from home after their fatherland was burned, they were seeking a home and a place to found a city, admiring the nobility of the nation and of the man, and their mind prepared either for war or for peace, he joined hands and sanctioned a pledge of future friendship.
§1.1.9inde foedus ictum inter duces, inter exercitus salutationem factam; Aeneam apud Latinum fuisse in hospitio; ibi Latinum apud penates deos domesticum publico adiunxisse foedus filia Aeneae in matrimonium data.
Thereupon a treaty was struck between the leaders, and a greeting was exchanged between the armies; Aeneas was received in hospitality by Latinus; there, in the presence of his household gods, Latinus added a domestic treaty to the public one by giving his daughter to Aeneas in marriage.
§1.1.10ea res utique Troianis spem adfirmat tandem stabili certaque sede finiendi erroris.
This event, at all events, confirmed for the Trojans the hope of finally ending their wandering with a stable and certain home.
§1.1.11oppidum condunt; Aeneas ab nomine uxoris Lavinium appellat.
They founded a town; Aeneas called it Lavinium from the name of his wife.
brevi stirpis quoque virilis ex novo matrimonio fuit, cui Ascanium parentes dixere nomen.
Soon there was also male offspring from the new marriage, to whom his parents gave the name Ascanius.