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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.

Padua

Padua

By Virgil (70–19 B.C.)

ANTENOR, from the midst of Grecian hosts

Escaped, was able, safe, to penetrate

The Illyrian bay, and see the interior realms

Of the Liburni; and to pass beyond

The source of the Timavus, issuing whence,

With a vast mountain murmur from nine springs,

A bursting flood goes forth, and on the fields

Crowds with resounding waters. Yet he here

Founded the walls of Padua, and built

The Trojan seats, and to the people gave

A name, and there affixed the arms of Troy.

Now, laid at rest, he sleeps in placid peace.