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... res Troiana labaret: "nate dea, si nota satis praesagia...

'nate dea' = son of a godess; the 'a' in 'dea' is long, an ablative; the godess is ofcourse Venus. Thus the Romans considered themselves offspring of Aeneas and Aeneas was said to be a son of a godess (Venus).