XI. [1] Then Anchises concluded that it was the end of their miseries and wanderings, because he remembered what Venus had once foretold him: on a foreign coast, driven by hunger, he would come upon sacred meals, and that place would be where he would found the destined settlement.

[2] When they brought the undisturbed sow from the ship to be sacrificed, it tore itself from the hands of the priests. Aeneas then remembered that he was once told that a fourfoot would lead him to found a city.

[3] With the images of the household gods he pursued it, and where [the animal] laid down and gave birth to thirty piglets, there he looked for signs ... ²⁵ afterwards it was called Lavinium, like Ceasar writes in the first book and Lutatius in the second book.