Virgil on Mantua

“I, Mantua, first will bring thee back the palms Of Idumaea, and raise a marble shrine On thy green plain fast by the water-side, Where Mincius winds more vast in lazy coils, And rims his margent with the tender reed.”

“Next Ocnus summoned forth A war-host from his native shores, the son Of Tiber, Tuscan river, and the nymph Manto, a prophetess: he gave good walls, O Mantua, and his mother's name, to thee,— To Mantua so rich in noble sires, But of a blood diverse, a triple breed, Four stems in each; and over all enthroned She rules her tribes: her strength is Tuscan born.”