quid soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas, pacem orare manu, praefigere puppibus arma? tu potes Aenean manibus subducere Graium proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis, et potes in totidem classem convertere nymphas: nos aliquid Rutulos contra iuvisse nefandum est? Aeneas ignarus abest: ignarus et absit.
What about their choosing whose daughters they shall wed, and dragging from her lovers breast the plighted bride? Their proffering peace with the hand but arraying their ships with armour? You have power to steal Aeneas from Greek hands, and in place of a man to offer them mist and empty air, and you have power to turn their fleet into as many nymphs:but that we in turn have given some aid to the Rutuli, is that monstrous? Aeneas unknowing is far away; unknowing and far away let him be!