Of the god of the whole,

Since the dawn of creation began.

Dido, who has been gazing upon Æneas in rapt admiration (753-756):

Now come, my guest, and from the first recount the tale

Of Grecian treachery, thy friends’ sad overthrow

And all thy toils; for lo, the seventh summer finds

Thee wand’ring still in every land, on every sea.

Æneas, rising (II. 3-13)

Thou wouldst that I should feel a woe unspeakable,

O Queen, and tell again how all our Trojan power