Quam metuens molem (neque enim, certamine sumpto, tempestas tanta et rabies impune fuisset) in faciem pavidi Iuno conversa Metelli: quid vanos, inquit, Latio spes unica consul, incassumque moves, fato renuente, furores? si superest Paulus, restant Aeneia regna; sin secus, Ausoniam tecum trahis.
But Juno feared the mans might; for, if a duel began, such a storm of passion would not have ended in nothing. Therefore she took the form of cowardly Metellusa: Why, she asked, do you, the consul on whom alone the hopes of Rome depend, defy Fortune and rage furiously to no purpose? If Paulus survives, the empire of Rome still stands; if he dies, he drags down his country with him.
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