# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known
>
> Above high air of heaven by my fame,
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> Carrying with me in my ships our gods
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> Of hearth and home, saved from the enemy.
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> I look for Italy to be my fatherland,
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> And my descent is from all-highest Jove.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Sum pius Aeneas, raptos qui ex hoste Penates / classe veho mecum, fama super aethera notus. / Italiam quaero patriam et genus ab Iove summo.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_I) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-am-aeneas

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> But the trumpet with brazen song rang out afar its fearful call; a shout follows and the sky re-echoes.

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> Chance joins with force to guide the steel.

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> Valiant of tongue, though his hand was cold for battle.

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