[331-361] ‘Aeneas restrains himself in obedience to Jupiter, and answers that, so far from forgetting what Dido has done for him, he shall ever think of her with pleasure—that he never meant to stay with her—that his first wish would have been to restore Troy, but that in obedience to the gods he is obliged to seek a kingdom in a foreign land, which is no more than what she has herself done—and that he has been warned in dreams and visions to do so without delay.’
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.
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