o patria, o divum domus Ilium et incluta bello moenia Dardanidum! quater ipso in limine portae substitit, atque utero sonitum quater arma dedere: instamus tamen immemores caecique furore et monstrum infelix sacrata sistimus arce.
O my country! O Ilium, home of gods, and you Dardan battlements, famed in war! Four times at the gates very threshold it halted, and four times from its belly the armour clashed; yet we press on, heedless and blind with rage, and set the ill-omened monster on our hallowed citadel.