treated you well, or anything of mine has been sweet to you, have pity on a house that is falling and I beg you, if there is any place for prayers, lay aside this intention” thus she had spoken. He, by the warnings of Jupiter held his eyes unmoved
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remember Elissa as long as I remember myself, as long as life rules those limbs. I will say a few words on the matter. Neither I hoped (don’t imagine it) to conceal this flight by stealth nor did I ever hold out the marriage torches of a husband or
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would remain, and with my hand I would have laid down a rebuilt Troy for the defeated. But Gryneus Apollo, the Lycian oracles, now have ordered me to strive for Italy, great Italy, this is my love, this is my native land. If the towers of Carthage
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as often as the fiery stars rise, the vision of my father Anchises is warning me in my sleep and troubled, terrifies (me), the boy Ancanius (warns) me and the wronging of his dear person whom I am depriving of the kingdom of the west and the lands
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words with these ears cease to inflame both me and you with your complaints; I do not seek Italy of my own free will’. Go, follow Italy with the winds, seek kingdoms across the waves. I hope indeed if the good divinities have any power, you will
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you will pay the penalty I shall hear and this report will come to me deep in the shades far below.’ With these words she breaks off her speech in the midst and faint she flees the breezes and turns herself away from his eyes and takes herself away,
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comforting and to divert her cares with words, groaning much and his mind shaken by (his) great love nevertheless he carries out the orders of the gods and returns to the fleet. Among whom Phoenician Dido fresh from her wound was wondering in the
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tender love addressed her: ‘unhappy Dido, so a true message had come to me of your death and to have your end with a sword? Alas, was I the cause of your death? I swear by the stars by the gods above and by whatever oath is below in the depths of the
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bring you to such great grief. Halt your footsteps and do not withdraw yourself from our seeing. Whom do you flee? The last thing allowed us by fate which I address to you is this.’ With such words Aeneas was soothing her fiery spirit and savage
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shady grove where Sychaeus, her husband in former times responded to her cares and returns equally her love. Aeneas, no less stricken by her unjust fate followed her, far off, with his tears and laments her.
