We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy. Achates was the first to… — Virgil
We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy. Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting.
In the original Latin
Cum procul obscuros collis humileque videmus Italiam. Italiam primus conclamat Achates, Italiam laeto socii clamore salutant.
Aeneid · 19 BC
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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.
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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.