Gaining the heights they look down

Wondering at the mighty towers

At a nearer distance view the town [1]

Once huts, and shepherds' bowers

.

Men toil before the gates

Some call to all to gather

The work songs resound along streets

The marketplace bustling with banter

Some build the queen’s keep

Some quarry and roll stones along

Some extend the walled steeps

.

Some for homes choose ditched ground

Some pine for an orderly choice

Some ordain laws and sternly expound

Of holy senates and elect by voice

.

Some design a stony pier

Some from marble mighty columns hew

Some lay deep foundations for a theatre

Some carve scenes for future view

.

Such is their toil

Such their busy pains

Ploughing the sun-kissed soil

Like summer bees in flowery plains

.

Some lead their youth to work

Some at the gate stand ready to work

Some condense their crops to drink

Some in cells pour draughts to drink

All combine force to drive

The lazy drones from the toilsome hive

They view each other's deeds

Sweaty work providing the queen’s needs

.

[the hero speaks]

Happy the city is whose walls rise

.

Concealed in cloud

Entering at the gate

He mixed unseen among the crowd

Hearing the holy speaker relate

.

At town center there stood

An ancient and hallowed wood

And here the seer’s found

The head of Fortune’s own hound [2]

.

This sign their foundress Juno gave

Of a fateful home for people brave

Sidonian Dido here with solemn state

Did Juno's temple build, and consecrate [3]

.

Her brazen-stepped temple

With marble-pillared threshold

Gifted with a golden shrine

A house for the mother divine

Brazen-plated cedar beams enclosed

The rafters brass-crowned

Lofty doors brass-hinged and sound

.

Aeneas did then behold

What brought back his courage of old

For on the rising town’s temple wall

Was painted the tale of Troy’s fall

End 12

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Notes

-1. The keep, or the citadel, or castle, a walled fortress of the ruler adjacent to an unwalled town, is a classic artifact of alien conquest, with the lower classes occupying the town originally constituting a conquered race, such as in Norman England, their master foes occupying an exclusionary zone. This practice extends to immigrant no-go enclaves in Western municipalities where ethnically alien folk have been imported as tools for economic displacement.

-2. The lucky hound head may extend further into pre-antiquity than the herding tradition and be a paleolithic holdover from the age of the hunt.

-3. It is no accident that the Semitic city of exiles stumbled upon by Aeneas in his exile is blessed by the very goddess of civilization that cursed Аrуаn Troy—perhaps a more subtle justification of the sack of historic Carthage and general Roman depredations in the Levant. Virgil, though, traffics in more than propaganda, but also tradition, tradition that his eldest ancestors were forced into nomadism by war, which is the most common catalyst for migration in the tribal setting, demonstrating that tribalism encourages peaceful separation more often than sectarian war, the latter more likely a result of unsuccessful cultural disengagement.