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