Dixerat. Ille Iovis monitis immota tenebat\ nlumina, et obnixus curam sub corde premebat.
Tandem pauca refert: 'Ego te, quae plurima fando
enumerare vales, numquam, regina, negabo
promeritam; nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae,
dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.
Pro re pauca loquar. Neque ego hanc abscondere furto
speravi—-ne finge—-fugam, nec coniugis umquam
praetendi taedas, aut haec in foedera veni.
Me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam

So she had spoken. He was holding his eyes fixed because
of the orders of Jupiter, he struggled to press his distress under his heart.
Finally he gave a brief reply: "I will never deny, queen
that you deserve the utmost you could set out in speech: nor will it be unpleasant to me to remember Dido
so long as I am myself, while breath controls these limbs.
I will say a few things for my case. I did not hope to deceitfully
conceal my flight - do not imagine it! Neither did I ever
hold the torch of a bridegroom, or enter into these agreements
if fate allowed me to lead my life"