P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid 12.818-828

In this passage from the end of the Aeneid, Iuno finally relents and asks Iuppiter one concession: that the future Romans bear the Latin name and character, not the Trojan.

 

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Iuno dixit:

nunc cedo. pugnas odi et relinquo. sed unum te rogo, Iuppiter, pro Latio et pro gloria tua. lex deorum hoc non vetat:

cum pacem facient et leges iungent; noli iubere Latinos nomen antiquum mutare. noli iubere eos Troianos vocari. noli iubere viros vocem aut vestem mutare.

sit Latium. sint Albani reges per saecula. sit Romana gens potens virtute Italorum.

Troia cecidit. hoc tibi placet, et nomen Troiae cadat.

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