Adstabat fecunda Iovis Pomponia furto namque ubi cognovit Latio surgentia bella Poenorum Venus, insidias anteire laborans Iunonis, fusa sensim per pectora patrem implicuit flamma; quae ni provisa fuissent, Sidonia Iliacas nunc virgo accenderet aras.
Pomponia now stood near. The secret love of Jupiter had made her Scipios mother. For, when Venus learnt that the arms of Carthage were rising against Rome, she strove to anticipate the wiles of Juno, and entrapped her fathers heart with a slow-spreading flame. But for this foresight, a Carthaginian virgin would now be kindling the altars of Ilium.
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