by Sydney Tan, PsyD

Aeneas then distributes the wine which the good hero Acestes had loaded
on the Sicilian beach and had given to them departing,
and with these words he soothed their grieving hearts:
“O companions — for we are not ignorant of troubles prior —
O men who have endured greater, the god will give an end to these things too.
You have approached both the Scyllaean rage and the deep
echoing cliffs, and you have experienced the rocks of the Cyclops too.
Revive your spirits and discharge melancholic fear:
for perhaps one day it will be a joy to remember even this.
Through various misfortunes, through so many dangerous things,
we head into Latium where the fates reveal peaceful homes.
There it is right for the kingdom of Troy to rise again.
Endure, and persevere yourselves for favorable conditions.”
He says such things with his voice, and sick with mighty pains
he assumes hope on his face and buries his grief deep into his heart.  

— Virgil, The Aeneid, translated from the Latin by Sydney Tan