sed cur (heu seri monitus!) cur tempore tali incustodito saevire dedistis amori? Contra sic infit, volvens vix murmur anhelum inter singultus labrisque trementibus Anna: nigro forte Iovi, cui tertia regna laborant, atque atri sociae thalami nova sacra parabam, quis aegram mentem et trepidantia corda levaret infelix germana tori, furvasque trahebam ipsa manu, properans ad visa pianda, bidentes; namque super somno dirus me impleverat horror: terque suam Dido, ter cum clamore vocarat et laeta exultans ostenderat ora Sychaeus.
But why'too late, alas, is my warning'why at such a moment did ye allow passion to run wild unwatched? Anna thus replied with quivering lips and in a breathless voice between her sobs: I chanced to be preparing strange offerings for the sable King whom the third realm obeys,b and for the partner of his gloomy bed,c in order to relieve my love-lorn sister of her sorrow and unrest; and I was myself bringing black-fleeced sheep, and making haste, to avert an evil dream. For, in my sleep, an awful fear had filled my heart; and thrice, thrice over with a loud cry, had Sychaeus claimed Dido as his own and shown a face of pride and joy.
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