| A | B |
|---|
| Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent! | Sister Anna, what dreams frighten me, agitated! Dido |
| Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae | I recognize traces of the old flame-- Dido |
| O luce magis dilecta sorori | O more loved to your sister than life-- Anna |
| Heu, vatum ignarae mentes! | Alas, the unknowing minds of the prophets!-- Narrator |
| qualis coniecta cerva sagitta | Just as when a deer, after an arrow has been thrown...--narrator |
| Communem hunc ergo populum paribus regamus auspiciis | Therefore let us rule this common people with equal power-- Juno |
| Sed fatis incerta feror | But I am carried, uncertain, by the fates-- Venus |
| mecum erit iste labor | This task will be with me-- Juno |
| Coniugium vocat, hoc praetexit nomine culpam | She calls it marriage and covers the fault with this name.-- narrator |
| Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum | Rumor, than whom there is no swifter evil-- narrator |
| Pariter facta atque infecta canebat | She was singing equally of things done and not done--narrator |
| Et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu | And now that Paris with his half-man crowd-- Iarbas |
