Quam simul ac tali persensit peste teneri cara Iovis coniunx nec famam obstare furori, talibus adgreditur Venerem Saturnia dictis:    egregiam vero laudem et spolia ampla refertis tuque puerque tuus; magnum et memorabile numen, una dolo divum si femina victa duorum est.
Soon as the loved wife of Jove saw that Dido was held in a passion so fatal, and that her good name was now no bar to her frenzy, the daughter of Saturn accosts Venus thus: Splendid indeed is the praise and rich the spoils you win, you and your boy; mighty and glorious is the power divine, if one woman is subdued by the guile of two gods!