Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Africa: Vol. XXIV. 1876–79. | | | | The Barbary States: Carthage | | Carthage | | Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
| | (From The Æneid, Book I) Translated by C. P. Cranch
THERE was an ancient city, Carthage, held | |
| By Tyrian settlers, facing from afar | |
| Italia, and the distant Tiber’s mouth; | |
| Rich in resources, fierce in war’s pursuits: | |
| And this one city, Juno, it was said, | 5 |
| Far more than every other land esteemed, | |
| Samos itself being less. Here were her arms, | |
| Her chariot here; e’en then the goddess strives | |
| With earnest hope to found a kingdom here | |
| Of universal sway, should fate permit. | 10 |
| But of a race derived from Trojan blood | |
| She had heard, who would o’erturn the Tyrian towers | |
| One day, and that a people of wide rule, | |
| And proud in war, descended thence, would come | |
| For Libya’s doom. So did the Fates decree. | 15 | | | |
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