Virgil’s the Aeneid translation

Urbs antiqua fuit (Tyrii tenuere coloni) Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe Ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli,

There was an ancient city (Tyrian settlers possessed it), Carthage, facing Italy and the mouth of the Tiber far away, rich in resources and very fierce in war’s activities,

Quam Iuno fertur terris magis omnibus unam posthabita coluisse Samo.

Which Juno is said to have cared for more than all other lands, since she esteemed Samos less.

Hic illius arma, hic currus fuit, hoc regnum dea gentibus esse, si qua fata sinant, iam tum tenditque fovetque.

Here was her armour, here was her chariot; even then the goddess both aimed and cherished the aim that this city should be kingdom of all races, if the fates allowed it in any way.

Progeniem sed enim Trioano a sanguine duck audierat Tyrias olim quae verteret arces;

But in fact, she had heard that offspring was being produced from Trojan blood to overthrow the Tyrian citadels some day;

hinc populum late regem belloque superbum venturum excidio Libyae; sic volvere Parcas.

From this a race would come ruling far and wide and arrogant in war to destroy Libya; thus, the fates were bringing to pass.

Id metuens veterisque memor Saturnia belli, prima quod ad Troiam pro caris gesserat Argis -

The daughter of Saturn, fearing this, and mindful of the old war, which she had previously waged near Troy on behalf of her beloved Greeks -

Necdum etiam causae irarum saevique dolores exciderant animo;

For even now the causes of her outbursts of anger and her savage pains had not yet disappeared from her mind;

Manet alta mente repostum iudicium Paridis spretaeque iniurae formae et genus invisum et rapti Ganymedis honores:

The judgement of Paris and the insult done to her spurned beauty and the hated race and the honours given to the snatched Ganymede remained buried deep in her mind:

His accensa super iactatos aequore toto Troas, reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli,

Fired by these injustices as well, she kept the Trojans tossed about over the whole sea, the remnants left by the Greeks and savage Achilles,

Arcebat longe Latio, multosque per annos errabant acti fatis maria omnia circum.

Far from Latinum, and for many years they wandered driven by the fates all around the seas.

Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem.

It invilved such great difficulty to found the Roman race.

Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti et spumas salis aere ruebant,

Scarcely out of sight from the land of Sicily, the Trojans were happily sailing into the high sea and churning up the foam of the salt sea with their bronze prows

Cum Iuno aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus haec secum:

When Juno, retaining the everlasting wound beneath her breast, said these words within herself:

‘Mene incepto desistere victam nec posse Italia Teucorum avertere regem!

‘To think that I, defeated, should give up my purpose, and not be able to divert the king of the Trojans from Italy!

Quippe vetor fatis.

Of course, I am forbidden by the fates.

Pallasne exurere classem Argivum atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?

Was Pallas able to burn up the fleet of the Greeks and drown the Greeks themselves in the sea because of one man’s offence and the madness of Ajax, son of Oileus?

Ipsa Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis,

She herself, hurling the swift fire of Jupiter from the clouds both scattered the ships and upturned the seas with their winds,

Illum exspirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto;

While him, as he breathed forth flame from his pierced breast, she snatched up in a whirlwind and impaled on a sharp rock.

Ast ago, quae divum incedo regina Iovisque et sonor et coniunx, una cum gente tot annos bella gero.

But I, who grandly walk as queen of the gods, and both sister and wife of Jupiter, have been waging wars for so many years with one race.

Et quisquam numen Iunonis adorat praeterea aut supplex aris imponet honorem?’

And does anyone worship the divine power of Juno anymore or in supplication will anyone place an offering upon her altars?’

Talia flammato secum dea corde volutans nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus Austris, Aeoliam venit.

The goddess, turning over such thoughts with herself in her inflamed heart, came to the land of the clouds, Aeolia, an area teeming with raging south winds.

Hic vasto rex Aeolus antro luctantes ventos tempestatesque sonoras impero premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat.

Here, King Aeolus by means of his power confines the struggling winds and sounding storms within a huge cave and curbs them with chains and a prison.

Illi indignantes magno cum murmure montis circum claustra fremunt;

They, indignant, roar around the prison bars accompanied by the mighty murmur of the mountain;

Celsa sedet Aeolus arce sceptra tenens mollitque animos et temperat iras.

Aeolus sits in the lofty citadel, holding the sceptre, soothes their feelings and restrains their outbursts of anger.