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venisse Aenean Troiano sanguine cretum
Indirect Statement:
1. Head verb - tells, says, thinks, etc
2. accusative subject
3. infinitive verb
THAT Aeneas had come born from Trojan blood
Haec passim dea foeda virum diffundit in ora.
The foul goddess pours out these things into the mouths of men everywhere.
templa Iovi centum latis immania regnis, (ABAB)
he placed 100 huge temples to Jove (Jupiter) in his wide kingdoms,
Isque amens animi et rumore accensus amaro
And he frenzied of mind and incensed by this bitter rumor
cui se pulchra viro dignetur iungere Dido,
to whom as her husband Dido deems herself worthy to join,
Protinus ad regem cursus detorquet Iarban
Immediately, she twists her course to King Iarbus
cemtum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem,
100 altars, and had dedicated a watchful fire,
dicitur
nun hiemem inter se luxu...fovere(erunt),
now for the winter they were cherishing between themselves in luxury,
African King who wanted to marry Dido when she arrived. She refused, saying she would forever be faithful to her murdered husband, Sychaeus. Iarbus offered her as much land as she could cover with a calf skin. She tricked him by tearing it into strips and creating a giant circle, enclosing enough land to build Carthage.
excubias divum (orum) aeternas,
as eternal fires of the gods,
ante aras media inter numina divum
before the altars in the middle of the divine presence (divinity) of the gods
quam longa
how long,
indenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras.
and inflames his spirit with words and heaps up his anger.
pecudumque cruore,
pingue solum ... sertis
...supplex orasse ...
as a suppliant to have prayed
regnorum immemores turpique cupidine captos (PPP) (ABBA).
forgetful of their kingdom and captured by shameful desire.
Hic Hammone satus rapta Garamantide nympha
et variis florentia limina
and the thresholds were flowering with various garlands.
multa Iovem manibus ... supinis:
many things to Jove/Jupiter with his hands turned up: