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Speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem 165ĭeveniunt. Tecta metu petiere ruunt de montibus amnes. Incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,Įt Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventusĭardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros This one then was filling the people with complex conversation, and was singing of things done and not done equally:
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She flies at night in the middle of heaven and earth hissing through the shadows, neither does she turn down her eyes for sweet sleep by light she sits as a guardian either on the peak of the highest roof or on the high towers, and terrifies the great cities, as tenacious of falsehood and wrong as a messenger of truth. Mother Earth, enraged by the anger of the gods, bore that one last, as they say, a sister for Coeus and Enceladus, swift with feet and nimble wings, an awful monster, huge, for whose body there are as many feathers, so many sleepless eyes underneath (marvelous to speak of), so many tongues, as many mouths sound, she raises so many ears. Immediately Rumor goes through the great cities of Libya, Rumor, than which not any other evil was more swift she flourishes with movement and gains strength with going, small at first because of dread, soon she raises herself on the breezes and proceeds on the ground and establishes her head among the clouds. That day was the first cause of death and the first of evils neither was Dido moved by her appearance or by her fame nor did she now meditate on a secret love: she calls it marriage, cloaks her fault by this name. Dido and the Trojan leader arrive at the same cave first both the Earth and the matron of honor Juno give the sign: fires flashed and the upper air was witness for the marriages and the Nymphs wailed at the highest peak. Meanwhile with a great murmur the sky begins to be stirred up, a storm cloud with hail having been mixed, and the Tyrian companions everywhere and the Trojan youth and the Dardanian grandson of Venus sought different shelters through the fields because of dread rivers rush down from the mountains.