Aeneid latin version

Lines 1-14 Dido confides in Anna

at regina gravi iamdudum saucia cura

vulnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni.

multa viri virtus animo multusque recursat

gentis honos: haerent infixi pectore vultus

verbaque, nec placidam membris dat cura quietem.

postera Phoebea lustrabat lampade terras

umentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram,

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cum sic unanimam adloquitur male sana sororem:

'Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!

quis novus hic nostris successit sedibus hospes,

quem sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis!

credo equidem, nec vana fides, genus esse deorum.

degeneres animos timor arguit. heu, quibus ille

¡actatus fatis! quae bella exhausta canebat!'

Unlucky Dido burns and wanders throughout the whole city in her madness, like a deer when the arrow is shot, which the shepherd, attacking with his weapons, has pierced off her guard far away amid the Cretan groves and has left (in it) the flying weapon, unaware: the deer in its flight wanders through the woods and Cretan glades; (but) the fateful arrow sticks in her side. Now she leads Aeneas with her through the midst of the city and shows him the Phoenician riches and a ready-made city. She begins to speak but stops in the middle of her utterance; then, as the daylight slips away, she seeks the same banquet, demands madly to hear the Trojan toils once again, and hangs again on the lips of the narrator. Afterwards, when they have parted, and the dim moon by turns suppresses her light and the setting stars advise sleep, alone in her empty home she grieves and lies on the abandoned couch. Him, the absent one, she, absent, hears and sees,or, captivated by the likeness to his father, holds Ascanius on her lap, in the hope that she can cheat her unspeakable love.

Lines 68-85: Dido fired with love shows Aeneas round the city

uritur infelix Dido totaque vagatur

urbe furens, qualis coniecta cerva sagitta,

quam procul incautam nemora inter Cresia fixit 70

pastor agens telis liquitque volatile ferrum

nescius: illa fuga silvas saltusque peragrat

Dictaeos; haeret lateri letalis harundo.

nunc media Aenean secum per moenia ducit

Sidoniasque ostentat opes urbemque paratam, 75

incipit effari mediaque in voce resistit;

nunc eadem labente die convivia quaerit,

Iliacosque iterum demens audire labores

exposcit pendetque iterum narrantis ab ore.

post ubi digressi, lumenque obscura vicissim 80

luna premit suadentque cadentia sidera somnos,

sola domo maeret vacua stratisque relictis

incubat. illum absens absentem auditque videtque,

aut gremio Ascanium genitoris imagine capta

detinet, infandum si fallere possit