Excerpt from The Aeneid of Vergil: Book XII The ostensible subject of the poem is the story of Aeneas, his escape from the sack of Troy, his wanderings by land and sea, his settlement in Italy, his conquest of the natives, and his foundation of the state which was afterwards to be Rome. It is, in some sort, not only an imitation of Homer, in detail as well as in general form, but also a continuation of it, tracing back, as the current legend did, the foundation of Rome to the exiled Trojan prince. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.