Quae dum Romuleis exercet proelia turmis Aeolius furor et Martem succendit in iras, affatur Virgo, socia Iunone, parentem: quantos Gradivus fluctus in Punica castra, respice, agit quantisque furens se caedibus implet! nunc, quaeso, terris descendere non placet Irim? quamquam ego non Teucros (nostro cum pignore regnet Roma, et Palladio sedes hac urbe locarim) non Teucros delere aderam; sed lumen alumnae Hannibalem Libyae pelli florentibus annis vita atque extingui primordia tanta negabam.
While the fury of the wind battled thus against the Roman troops and kindled the anger of Mars, the Maiden Goddess together with Juno addressed her Father thus: See the storms that Mars is rousing against the ranks of Carthage, and the carnage with which he gluts his fury. Say, is it not thy pleasure now that Iris should go down to earth? Yet the purpose of my presence there was not to destroy the Trojans'let Rome hold empire together with my pledge, and there I would fix the abode of the Palladiuma'no, but I would not allow Hannibal, the glory of my Libyan birthplace, to be slain in the flower of his youth, and such promise to be nipped in the bud.
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