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Quis dixit: tē propter Libycae gentēs Nomadumque tyrannīōdēre, īnfēnsī Tyriī; tē propter eundemexstīnctus pudor et, quā sōlā sīdera adībam,fāma prior.
Dido (anastrophe, everyone hates me now)
Quis dixit: saltem sī qua mihī dē tē suscepta fuissetante fugam subolēs, sī quis mihi parvulus aulālūderet Aenēās, quī tē tamen ōre referret,nōn equidem omnīnō capta ac dēserta vidērer
Dido (if only we'd had a child)
Quis describitur: ille Iovis monitīs immōta tenēbatlūmina et obnixus cūram sub corde premēbat.
Aeneas (keeping his sights set and hiding his woes)
Quis dixit: ego tē, quae plūrima fandōēnumerāre valēs, numquam, rēgīna, negābōprōmeritam, nec mē meminisse pigēbit Elissaedum memor ipse meī, dum spīritus hōs rēgit artūs.
Aeneas (I don't deny the things you said nor regret our time together)
Quis dixit: prō rē pauca loquar
Aeneas (law court defense)
Quis dixit: neque ego hanc abscondere fūrtōspērāvī (nē finge) fugam, nec coniugis umquampraetendī taedās aut haec in foedera vēnī.
Aeneas (I didn't try to leave in secret, nor did we marry)
Quis dixit: mē sī fāta meīs paterentur dūcere vītamauspiciīs et sponte meā compōnere cūrās,urbem Troiānam prīmum dulcēsque meōrumreliquiās colerem, Priamī tēcta alta manērent,et recidīva manū posuissem Pergama victīs.
Aeneas (if I could live on my own will, I would restore Troy)
Quis dixit: sed nunc Ītaliam magnam Grynēus Apollō,Ītaliam Lyciae iussēre capessere sortēs;hic amor, haec patria est.
Aeneas (the oracles are sending me to Italy)
Quis dixit: sī tē Karthāginis arcēsPhoenissam Libycaeque aspectus dētinet urbis,quae tandem Ausoniā Teucrōs cōnsīdere terrāinvidia est?
Aeneas (If Karthage holds a Phoenician, why begrudge a Trojan Italy?
Quis dixit: et nos fās extera quaerere rēgna.
Aeneas (you say nefas, I say fas)
Quis dixit: mē patris Anchīsae, quotiēns ūmentibus umbrīsnox operit terrās, quotiēns astra ignea surgunt,admonet in somnīs et turbida terret imāgō;
Aeneas (the shade of my father and the stars urge me)
Quis dixit: nunc etiam interpres dīvum Iove missus ab ipsō(testor utrumque caput) celerēs mandāta per aurāsdētulit: ipse deum manifestō in lūmine vīdīintrantem mūrōs vōcemque hīs auribus hausī.
Aeneas (even Mercury has warned me to go)
Quis dixit: mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī,quem rēgnō Hesperiae fraudō et fātalibus arvīs.
Aeneas (I would defraud my son of his fate also)
Quis dixit: dēsine mēque tuīs incendere tēque querēlis;Ītaliam nōn sponte sequor
Aeneas (quit your complaining; I'm not doing this of my own free will)
