Tum supplex Iuno: neque ego, haec mutare laborans, quis est fixa dies, pendenti nube resedi; nec revocare acies bellumve extendere quaero; quae donare potes (quoniam mihi gratia languet, et cecidit iam primus amor) nil fila sororum adversus posco: vertat terga Hannibal hosti, ut placet, et cineres Troiae Carthagine regnent.
Then Juno made her humble petition: I did not seat myself upon this overhanging cloud, in order that I might change events whose term is fixed already; nor do I seek to recall the armies and prolong the war. I ask only what you have power to grant'since my influence has waned and your first passion for me has cooled; I do not interfere with the spinning of the Three Sisters.b Let Hannibal retreat before the foe, since such is your pleasure, and let the ashes of Troyc reign at Carthage.
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