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Ni faciat
If he did not do this
Maria ac terras caelumque profundum quippe ferant rapidi
They would doubtless carry hurriedly away with them, seas, lands, and the high heaven
Secum verrantque per auras
And sweep them through the breezes
Sed pater omnipotens
But the all powerful father
Speluncis abdidit atris
Hid them in dark caverns
Hoc metuens
Fearing this
Molemque et montis insuper altos imposuit
Placed a mass and high mountains on top
Regemque dedit
And gave them a king
Qui foedere certo
So that under a fixed contract
Et premere et laxas sciret dare iussus habenas
He might know both how to repress them and to give them loosened reins
Ad quem tum Iuno supplex his vocibus usa est
To him, then, Juno in supplication used these words
Aeole, namque tibi divom pater atque hominum rexet
Aeolus (for to you the father of the gods and king of men
Mulcere dedit fluctus et tollere vento
Has granted both to calm the waves and raise them with the wind
Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat aequor
A race hostile to me is sailing the Etruscan sea
Ilium in Italiam portans victosque Penates
Carrying Troy and its defeated household gods to Italy
Incute vim ventis submersasque obrue puppes
Strike violence into the winds, sink and destroy their ships
Aut age diversos et disiice corpora ponto
Or drive them in different directions and scatter the bodies in the ocean
Sunt mihi bis septem praestanti corpore nymphae
I have fourteen nymphs of outstanding body
Quarum quae forma pulcherrima Deiopea
Of whom she who is the most beautiful in form, Deiopea
Conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo
I will join with you in stable marriage and declare her as your own
Omnis ut tecrum meritis pro talibus annos exigat
So that, in return for such services, she might spend all her years with you
Et pulchra faciat te prole parentem
And make you a parent with beautiful offspring
Aeolus haec contra
Aeolus said these things in reply
Tuus, O regina, quid optes explorare labor
Oh queen, it is your task to search for what you desire
Mihi iussa capessere fas est
For me, it is right to carry out your orders