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Quis describitur: centum ārās posuit vigilemque sacrāverat ignem,excubiās dīvum aeternās, pecudumque cruōrepingue solum et variīs flōrentia līmina sertīs.

Iarbas (temples and sacrifices)

Quis describitur: saevit inops animī tōtamque incēnsa per urbembacchātur, quālis commōtīs excita sacrīsThyias, ubi audītō stimulant trietērica Bacchōorgia nocturnusque vocat clāmōre Cithaerōn.

Dido (raging wildly like a Bacchanite)

Quis dixit: mēne fugis?

Dido (is it me you're fleeing?)

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: ut prīmum ālātīs tetigit māgālia plantīs,Aenēān fundantem arcēs ac tēcta novantemcōnspicit.

Mercurius (landing in the outskirts of Karthage)

Quis describitur: ille Iovis monitīs immōta tenēbatlūmina et obnixus cūram sub corde premēbat.

Aeneas (keeping his sights set and hiding his woes)

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 describitur: malum quā nōn aliud vēlōcius ūllum:mōbilitāte viget vīrēsque adquīrit eundō

Fama (an evil than which)

Quis dixit: et nos fās extera quaerere rēgna.

Aeneas (you say nefas, I say fas)

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 describitur: monstrum horrendum, ingēns, cui quot sunt corpore plūmae,tot vigilēs oculī subter (mīrābile dictū),tot linguae, totidem ōra sonant, tot subrigit aurēs

Fama (physical description)

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: dēsine mēque tuīs incendere tēque querēlis;Ītaliam nōn sponte sequor

Aeneas (quit your complaining; I'm not doing this of my own free will)

Quis dixit: "Iuppiter omnipotēns, cui nunc Maurūsia pictīsgēns epulāta torīs Lēnaeum lībat honōrem,aspicis haec?

Iarbas (beseeching Juppiter)

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 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: dissimulāre etiam spērāstī, perfide, tantumposse nefās tacitusque meā dēcēdere terrā?

Dido (calling out Aeneas for trying to leave in secret)

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)

Quid describitur: atque illī stēllātus iaspide fulvāēnsis erat Tyriōque ardēbat mūrice laenadēmissa ex umerīs, dīves quae mūnera Dīdōfēcerat, et tenuī tēlās discrēverat aurō.

Aeneas' sword and cloak

Quis dixit: ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō rēgnātor, caelum et terrās quī nūmine torquet, ipse haec ferre iubet celerēs mandāta per aurās:

Mercurius (Jupiter sent me)

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: fēmina quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbemexiguam pretiō posuit, cui lītus arandumcuique locī lēgēs dedimus, cōnūbia nostrareppulit ac dominum Aenēān in rēgna recēpit.

Iarbas (Dido has rejected his marriage)

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: 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 describitur: ardet abīre fugā dulcēsque relinquere terrās,attonitus tantō monitū imperiōque deōrum.heu quid agat? quō nunc rēgīnam ambīre furentemaudeat adfātū? quae prīma exordia sūmat?

Aeneas (dumbstruck by Mercury's appearance and speech)

Quis describitur: parva metū prīmō, mox sēsē attollit in aurāsingrediturque solō et caput inter nūbila condit.

Fama (small at first in fear)

Quis dixit: prō rē pauca loquar

Aeneas (law court defense)

Quis dixit: nec tē noster amor nec tē data dextera quondamnec moritūra tenet crūdēlī fūnere Dīdō?

Dido (do none of these things keep you here?)

Quis dixit: tū nunc Karthāginis altaefundāmenta locās pulchramque uxōrius urbemextruis? heu, rēgnī rērumque oblīte tuārum!

Mercurius (to wife-ruled Aeneas)

Quis dixit: quīn etiam hībernō mōlīrī sīdere classemet mediīs properās Aquilōnibus īre per altum,crūdēlis?

Dido (you're trying to sail in winter?)