Obstipuit primo aspectu Sidonia Dido, casu deinde viri tanto, et sic ore locuta est: quis te, nate dea, per tanta pericula casus insequitur? quae vis immanibus applicat oris? tune ille Aeneas, quem Dardanio Anchisae alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undam? atque equidem Teucrum memini Sidona venire finibus expulsum patriis, nova regna petentem auxilio Beli; genitor tum Belus opimam vastabat Cyprum et victor dicione tenebat.
Sidonian Dido was amazed, first at the sight of the hero, then at his strange misfortune, and thus her lips made utterance: What fate pursues you, goddess-born, amidst such perils? What violence drives you to savage shores? Are you that Aeneas whom gracious Venus bore to Dardanian Anchises by the wave of Phrygian Simois? Indeed, I myself remember well Teucers coming to Sidon, when exiled from his native land he sought a new kingdom by aid of Belus; my father Belus was then wasting rich Cyprus, and held it under his victorious sway.
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