| A | B |
|---|
| Naviget! Haec summa est, hic nostri nuntius esto | Let him sail! This is the sum, let this be my message-- Jupiter |
| Quid struis? Aut qua spe Libycis teris otia terris? | What are you building? Or with what hope do you waste leisure in Libyan lands? Mercury |
| At regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem) praesensit.... | But the queen perceives in advance the tricks (who is able to deceive a lover?)-- narrator |
| Mene fugis? | Do you flee me?-- Dido |
| Hic amor, haec patria est | This is my love, this is my country-- Aeneas. |
| Italiam non sponte sequor. | I do not follow Italy from my own will- Aeneas. |
| I, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. | Go, follow Italy by winds, seek the kingdoms through the waves-- Dido |
| Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis? | Wicked love, what do you not compel mortain hearts (to do)? -- Narrator |
| Vixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi. | I have lived, and gone through the course which fate had given-- Dido |
| Moriemur inultae, sed moriamur. | We will die unavenged, but let us die-- Dido. |
