I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to… — Virgil
I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to Italy and the Lavinian beaches, a man much buffeted on land and on the deep by force of the gods because of fierce Juno's never-forgetting anger.
In the original Latin
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram.
Aeneid · 19 BC
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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 1.
Original citation
Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 1.