as to spurn offers like these, and prefer your enmity to your

friendship, were it but certain that the issue you name 25

would bring good fortune in its train? But I am groping

blindly after destiny—whether it be Jupiter’s will that

the Tyrians and the voyagers from Troy should have one

city—whether he would have the two nations blended

and a league made between them. You are his wife; it 30

is your place to approach him by entreaty. Go on, I

will follow.” Imperial Juno rejoined thus:—“That task

shall rest with me. Now, in what way our present purpose