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Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti
Hardly out of sight of the Sicilian land, they were happily sailing into the deep sea
Et spumas salis aere ruebant
And were churning the foam of the salt sea with their bronze
Cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, haec secum
When Juno, nursing her everlasting wound deep in her heart said these things to herself
Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?
Am I, having been defeated, to stop the thing I have begun, and not to be able to turn away the king of the Trojans from Italy?
Quippe vetor fatis
Indeed (/forsooth!) I am forbidden by the fates
Pallasne exurere classem Argivum atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto
Was Pallas able to burn the fleet of the Greeks and to drown themselves in the sea
Unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?
Because of the crime and madness of one man, Ajax son of Oileus?
Ipsa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem
She herself, having hurled the quick fire of Jupiter from the clouds
Disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis
Both scattered the ships and overturned the seas with the winds
Illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto
As for him, breathing out flames from his pierced chest, she snatched him up in a whirlwind and impaled him on a sharp rock
Ast ego quae incedo divum regina
But I, who walk forth [as] queen of the gods
Iovisque et soror et coniunx una cum gente tot annos bella gero
And [as] both sister and wife of Jupiter, have been waging wars for so many years with one race
Et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret praeterea aut supplex aris imponet honorem?
And will anyone worship the divine power of Juno in future or place, as a suppliant, an offering on her altars?
Talia flammato secum dea corde volutans
The goddess, turning over such things with herself in her inflamed heart
Nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus austris Aeoliam venit
Came to the land of the clouds, Aeolia, an area teeming with raging south winds
Hic vasto rex Aeolus antro luctantes ventos tempestatesque sonoras imperio premit
Here, King Aeolus by means of his power confines the struggling winds and sounding storms within a huge cave
Ac ventis et carcere frenat
And restrains them with chains and a prison
Illi indignantes magno cum murmure ventis circum claustra fremunt
They, indignant, roar around the prison bars, accompanied by the mighty murmur of the mountain
Celsa sedet Aeolus arce
Aeolus sits in the lofty citadel
Sceptra tenens, mollitque animos et temperat iras
Holding the sceptre, [he] both soothes their feelings and moderates their outbursts of anger