and stratagems, and injurious crimes cheer like a cordial.

Hateful even to Pluto her sire is the fiend, hateful to her 30

Tartarean sisters, so many the forms she puts on, so terrible

the mien of each, so countless the vipers that burgeon

blackly from her head. Her, thus dreadful, Juno lashes

to fiercer fury, speaking on this wise: “Grant me, maiden

daughter of Night, a boon all my own—thine undivided 35

aid, that my praise and renown may not be dashed from

their pedestal—that the children of Æneas may not be

able to ensnare Latinus in a bridal alliance or beset the