Of passion at the bosom’s inmost seat.

She dreads the treacherous house, the double tongue;

She burns, she frets—by Juno’s rancour stung;

The calm of night is powerless to remove

These cares, and thus she speaks to wingèd Love: 10

“O son, my strength, my power! who dost despise

(What, save thyself, none dares through earth and skies)

The giant-quelling bolts of Jove, I flee,

O son, a suppliant to thy deity!

What perils meet Æneas in his course, 15