1 This too sometime we shall haply remember with delight.
2 : 'Arcadians,' he cries, 'remember these my words, and bear them to Evander.'
3 Now remember each his wife and home: now recall the high deeds of our fathers' honour.
4 For how we spent that last night in delusive gladness thou knowest, and must needs remember too well.
5 Palinurus himself professes he cannot tell day from night on the sky, nor remember the way amid the waters.
6 Neither have I any war with Troy since her towers are overthrown, nor do I remember with delight the woes of old.
7 Thereat Pyrrhus: "Thou then shalt tell this, and go with the message to my sire the son of Peleus: remember to tell him of my baleful deeds, and the degeneracy of Neoptolemus."
8 Never, O Queen, will I deny that thy goodness hath gone high as thy words can swell the reckoning; nor will my memory of Elissa be ungracious while I remember myself, and breath sways this body.
9 And now I remember, though the story is dimmed with years, thus Auruncan elders told, how Dardanus, born in this our country, made his way to the towns of Phrygian Ida and to the Thracian Samos that is now called Samothrace.
10 Open now the gates of Helicon, goddesses, and stir the song of the kings that rose for war, the array that followed each and filled the plains, the men that even then blossomed, the arms that blazed in Italy the bountiful land: for you remember, divine ones, and you can recall; to us but a breath of rumour, scant and slight, is wafted down.