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... restant, nisi nomen, Athenae? nunc quoque Dardaniam fama est...

vss 431 - 452: in these vss Ovid/Pythogoras deals with Rome: Troy is about to be conquered and Helenus, one of sons of king Priamus, notices, that Aeneas dispairs; this prompts Helenus to prophesy ie. Helenus forsees the upcoming of Rome as a world-power. This whole section can be seen as an excursus; however one could argue, that Ovid sees the upcoming of Rome as a 'metamorphoses'.