Allen Mandelbaum

Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator.

The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)
had made him fugitive; he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.
 * I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
 * Book I, lines 1–4

still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features, or draw out of the marble living lines, plead causes better, trace the ways of heaven with wands and tell the rising constellations; but yours will be the rulership of nations, remember Roman, these will be your arts: to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.
 * For other peoples will, I do not doubt,
 * Book VI, lines 1129–1137

the gods who put this fire in our minds, or is it that each man's relentless longing becomes a god to him?
 * Euryalus, is it
 * Book IX, lines 243–246