scorn our great father’s Typhœan[113] thunderbolts, to thee 10

I fly for aid, and make suppliant prayer of thy majesty.

How thy brother Æneas is tossed on the ocean the whole

world over by Juno’s implacable rancour I need not tell

thee—nay, thou hast often mingled thy grief with mine.

He is now the guest of Dido, the Phœnician woman, and 15

the spell of a courteous tongue is laid on him, and I fear

what may be the end of taking shelter under Juno’s

wing; she will never be idle at a time on which so much

hangs. Thus then I am planning to be first in the field,