Haec ubi dicta dedit, terras horrenda petivit;
When she gave these words, fearful, she sought land;
luctificam Allecto dirarum ab sede dearum
infernisque ciet tenebris, cui tristia bella
iraeque insidiaeque et crimina noxia cordi.
she calls the ‘menacing’ Allecto from the Furies’ home and the infernal darkness, for whom sad wars and anger and trickery and harmful crimes are dear.
odit et ipse pater Pluton, odere sorores
Tartareae monstrum: tot sese vertit in ora,
Even her father himself, Pluto, hated her, and her infernal sisters hated the monster: she turns herself into so many forms,
tam saevae facies, tot pullulat atra colubris.
her looks are so savage, and gloomy, she sprouts so many snakes.
quam Iuno his acuit verbis ac talia fatur:
Juno rouses her with these words and speaks such things: