from the same race should come Rom'u-lus, who would found the city
Rome, which would in time conquer Greece and rule the world.

"The people Romans call, the city Rome
To them no bounds of empire I assign,
Nor term of years to their immortal line,
E'en haughty Juno, who, with endless broils,
Earth, seas, and heaven, and Jove himself turmoils,
At length atoned, her friendly power shall join,
To cherish and advance the Trojan line.
An age is ripening in revolving fate,
When Troy shall overturn the Grecian state,
And sweet revenge her conquering sons shall call
To crush the people that conspired her fall,
Then Caesar from the Julian stock shall rise,
Whose empire ocean, and whose fame the skies
Alone shall bound."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK I.

Thus did the king of heaven prophesy the future greatness and power of
the Julian line. Then he sent Mercury, the messenger of the gods, down
to earth to bid the queen of Carthage and her people give a hospitable
reception to the Trojans, for it was near that city, on the Li'by-an
shore, that they had landed after the storm. Venus herself, too, came
down from Olympus, and, in the garb of a huntress, appeared to her son
and the faithful Achates, as they were exploring the coast to find out
what land it was, and by what people possessed. She did not make
herself known to them, but inquired if they had seen one of her
sisters who had strayed away from her. AEneas answered: "None of your
sisters have we seen, O virgin, or shall we call you goddess, for such