Scarcely out of sight oc Sicilian land, they were happily giving their sails in the deep sea, they were rushing the salty foams wit the bronze prow of the ship, while Juno is keeping an eternal wound deep in her breast, she says to herself: "Am I defeated, to cease from my attepmt (from making Carthage powerful city) nor be able to turn the king of the Trojans from Italy -- naturally I am refused by the fates! Wasn't Pallas able to burn the fleet of the Argives (Greeks) and to sink them into the sea on account of the wrongdoing of one of them and fury towards Ajax. She herself threw the fast-moving fire of Zues (lightning bolt) from the clouds and she broke up the ships and overturned the seas with the winds, she siezed hold of him (Ajax), breathing forth flame from his punctured chest, with a tornado and she impails him on a sharp rock; but I who march as queen of the gods, sister and wife of Jove, I wage war with one race for so many years. And moreover, would any person adore the divine will of Juno or will anyone making humble entry place a sacrificial offering on her alter?" The goddess turned over in her mind such things and her heart having been set on fire, she goes to Aeolia, the country of the clouds, a place teeming with raging winds. Here, King Aeolus in his immense cave supresses the struggling winds and the noisy storms by means of command and reigning in with chains and the gate. The indignant winds are rumbling with great rumbles of the mountain around that gate; Aeolus sat on the lofty citedal, holding onto his scepter and he soothes the prides and restraines andgers. Unless he did this, of course they would carry away the seas, the lands, and the boundless heavens (tricolon) and they would rapidly sweep them away through the heavens with them; but the omnipotent father hid the winds in a dark cave, fearing this, he placed a massive thing and high mountains on top of it and he gave a king who would know because of a fixed agreement, to restrain the reigns and to give slack reins when he had been ordered.

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