Note 40 — INTRODUCTION. CONTENTS.
L. Dora Schmitz translation
Νῦν δὲ δὴ Αἰνείαο βίη Τρώεσσιν ἀνάξει, Καὶ παίδων παῖδες, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται. “But o’er the Trojans shall Æneas reign, And his sons’ sons, through ages yet unborn.”
This is the declaration of Poseidon to the gods, when Æneas was in peril of his life by the sword of Achilles. (But compare p. 182).—[Ed.]