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