1. Aen. IV

2. Dixit, et, os impressa toro, “Moriemur inultae,
She spoke, and having pressed her face in the couch, “we will die unavenged,
660 sed moriamur” ait.“Sic, sic iuvat ire sub umbras:
but let us die,” she said. “Thus, thus it pleases (me) to go under the shades:
Hauriat hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto
Let the cruel Trojan soak up this fire with his eyes from the deep
Dardanus, et nostrae secum ferat omina mortis.”
and let him bring omens of our death with him.”

3. Dixerat; atque illam media inter talia ferro
She had spoken; and so her comrades see that woman
conlapsam aspiciunt comites, ensemque cruore
Fallen in a heap in the middle of such things by the sword, and the sword
665spumantem, sparsasque manus. It clamor ad alta
Foaming with gore, and her hands sprinkled (with gore). Uproar goes to the high
atria; concussam bacchatur Fama per urbem.
Atriums/halls; Rumor runs wild through the shaken city.

4. 670Karthago aut antiqua Tyros, flammaeque furentes
Lamentis gemituque et femineo ululatu
With lamentations and with a groan and with a womanly howl
tecta fremunt; resonat magnis plangoribus aether,
The roofs/houses roar; the upper air resounds with great wailings,
non aliter, quam si immissis ruat hostibus omnis
Not otherwise than if all of Carthage should fall, the enemy having been brought in,
670Karthago aut antiqua Tyros, flammaeque furentes
Or ancient Tyre, or the flames raging
culmina perque hominum volvantur perque deorum.
Should turn/roll through the summits/roofs of men and of the gods.

5. Audiit exanimis, trepidoque exterrita cursu
Her sister heard out of her mind and terrified with a trembling run
unguibus ora soror foedans et pectora pugnis
Fouling her features with her claws and her breasts/chest with her fists/punches
per medios ruit, ac morientem nomine clamat:
She rushes through the midst (of people in the palace), and calls the dying one by name:
675“Hoc illud, germana, fuit? Me fraude petebas?
“Sister, was this that (thing you were planning)? Were you seeking me in deceit?
Hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignes araeque parabant?
(Was it) this (that) this pyre of yours, this (that) the fires and altars were preparing for me?

6. Quid primum deserta querar? Comitemne sororem
What am I, deserted, to complain of first? Did you, dying, spurn your sister
sprevisti moriens? Eadem me ad fata vocasses:
as companion? Would that you had called me to the same fates:
idem ambas ferro dolor, atque eadem hora tulisset.
That the same grief and the same hour had brought us both (to death) by the sword.
680His etiam struxi manibus, patriosque vocavi
Indeed, did I build with these hands (your pyre), and did I call the ancestral gods
voce deos, sic te ut posita crudelis abessem?
with my voice, so that, with you placed thus I might be away (from you), cruel one?

7. Exstinxti te meque, soror, populumque patresque
You have destroyed yourself and me, sister, and the people and Sidonian fathers
Sidonios urbemque tuam. Date vulnera lymphis
and your city. Give (her to me so that) I may wash (her) wounds with waters,
abluam, et, extremus si quis super halitus errat,
and, if any last breath wanders above (her mouth),
685ore legam.” Sic fata, gradus evaserat altos,
That I may collect (it) with (my) mouth.” Having spoken thus, she had passed beyond the high steps,
semianimemque sinu germanam amplexa fovebat
And cradled her half-dead sister in her lap/bosom, having embraced (her)

8. cum gemitu, atque atros siccabat veste cruores.
with a groan, and dried the black blood(s) with her robe/clothes.
Illa, graves oculos conata attollere, rursus
That one, having tried to lift her heavy eyes, backward
deficit; infixum stridit sub pectore vulnus.
falls; the wound pierced beneath her breast hissed.

9. quaesivit caelo lucem, ingemuitque reperta.
690Ter sese attollens cubitoque adnixa levavit;
Three times lifting herself and having leaned on her forearm she raised (herself);
ter revoluta toro est, oculisque errantibus alto
Three times she was rolled over on the bed, and with eyes wandering
quaesivit caelo lucem, ingemuitque reperta.
She sought the light from high heaven, and groaned (light) having been found.

10. Tum Iuno omnipotens, longum miserata dolorem
Then all-powerful Juno, pitied the long suffering
difficilisque obitus, Irim demisit Olympo,
and difficult passing(s), sent Iris down from Olympus
695 quae luctantem animam nexosque resolveret artus.
to release the struggling soul and the bound limbs.

11. Nam quia nec fato, merita nec morte peribat,
For since neither by fate nor by a deserved death was she dying,
sed misera ante diem, subitoque accensa furore,
But pitiful(ly) before her day/time, and suddenly enflamed by madness,
nondum illi flavum Proserpina vertice crinem
Proserpina had not yet taken a blond (lock of) hair from that one’s head
abstulerat, Stygioque caput damnaverat Orco.
and had (not yet) doomed her head to Stygion Orcus.

12. sacrum iussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo.”
700 Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis,
Therefore Iris dewy with saffron yellow feathers trough the sky mille trahens varios adverso sole colores,
dragging a thousand different colors, the sun facing (her), devolat, et supra caput adstitit: “Hunc ego Diti
Flew down, and stood above (Dido’s) head: “Having been ordered, I take for Dis (Pluto)
sacrum iussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo.”
this sacred (lock of hair) and I release you from that body of yours.”

13. Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat: omnis et una
Thus she speaks, and cuts a lock of hair with her right hand: and at the same time
705 dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit.
all the heat departed and (her) life withdrew into the winds.