Note 4 — Chapter I · GENERAL CHARACTER OF ROMAN POETRY.
Reading edition
The following lines might be quoted as a specimen of the majesty of the Aeneid:—
Haec finis Priami fatorum; hic exitus illum Sorte tulit, Troiam incensam et prolapsa videntem Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum Regnatorem Asiae.—Aen. ii. 554-7.