iamque propinquabat muro, cum Iupiter aegram Iunonem alloquitur curis mulcetque monendo: nullane Sidonio iuveni, coniuxque sororque cara mihi, non ulla umquam sine fine feroci addes frena viro? fuerit delere Saguntum, exaequare Alpes, imponere vincula sacro Eridano, foedare lacus: etiamne parabit nostras ille domos, nostras perrumpere in arces? siste virum.
He was nearing the walls, when Jupiter addressed Juno and soothed her fears by this warning: Spouse and sister whom I love, will you never, never check this Carthaginian youth whose insolence knows no limit? He destroyed Saguntum and levelled the Alps; he put fetters on the sacred river Po and polluted the lakes.a Let that pass; but does he intend also to force his way into the habitations of the gods and into our citadels? Bring him to a halt;
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