they had their gods with them, they builded Rome in Latium, and there they placed the gods to be worshipped, which before were worshipped in Troy. Juno is introduced by their poet, incensed against Æneas and the fugitive Trojans, saying, “A race of wandering slaves abhorred by me, With prosperous passage cuts the Tuscan sea, To fruitful Italy their course they steer, And for their vanquished gods, design new temples there.”2729 Now when these vanquished gods were carried into Italy, was it as a protecting deity, or2730 as a presage2731 of their future fall? “Love” therefore “the law of God, and nothing shall be an offence to you.” We pray you, we beseech you, we exhort you; be meek, sympathize with the suffering, bear the weak; and on this occasion of the concourse of so many strangers, and needy, and suffering people, let your hospitality and your good works abound. Let but Christians do what Christ enjoineth, and so will the Heathen blaspheme only to their own hurt. 2729 Æn. i. 71, 2. 2730 De Civit. Dei, lib. i. c. 3. Immo vero victos deos tanquam præsides ac defensores colere, quid est aliud quam tenere non numina bona sed omina mala? 2731 Numen erat, an omen. 751 On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xviii. 7, where we are admonished to beware…