| A | B |
| Coniugium vocat, hoc praetexit nomine culpam | She calls it marriage, and covers the faults with this name. Dido about the marriage. |
| Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum | Rumour, than whom no other evil is swifter. About rumour. |
| Pariter facta et infecta canebat. | She was singing of things done and not done. - About rumour. |
| Et nunc ille Paris cum semivero comitatu. | And that Paris and his half-man group. Iarbas about Aeneas. |
| Quid struis? Aut qua spe Libycis teris otia terris? | What are you building? Or with what hope do you waste leisure in Libyan lands? |
| At regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem) praesensit | But the queen preceived the tricks? (who would be able to deceive a lover?) Narrator about Dido. |
| Mene fugis? | Do you flee me? Dido to Aeneas |
| Hic amor, haec patria est. | This is my love, this is my country. Aeneas |
| Italiam non sponte sequor. | I follow Italy, not of my own will. Aeneas |
| Moriemur inulate, sed moriamur. | We will die unavenged, but let us die. Dido. |