62of Ilium, father, grant to the Teucrians.' 63Then queen Juno, driven by heavy fury: 'Why do you force me to break my deep silence and broadcast in words a grief I had kept covered? 65Did any man or any god compel Aeneas to pursue war, or to set himself up as an enemy to King Latinus? 67He sought Italy with the fates as his authority, so be it, driven by the ravings of Cassandra: did we urge him to leave his camp or to entrust his life to the winds? 70Did we urge him to entrust the conduct of the war to a boy, to entrust his walls, or to unsettle Tyrrhenian loyalty and peaceful nations?
72What god, what harsh power of mine drove him into this deceit? 73Where is Juno in this, or Iris sent down from the clouds? 74It is shameful that Italians should ring with flames a Troy being born, and that Turnus should stand on his native soil, Turnus, whose grandfather is Pilumnus, whose mother is the goddess Venilia: what of the Trojans bringing violence on the Latins with black torches, crushing others' fields under their yoke and driving off plunder? 79What of their choosing fathers-in-law and dragging betrothed brides from their mothers' laps, begging for peace with the hand while fixing arms on their sterns? 81You can steal Aeneas away from the hands of the Greeks and spread a mist and empty winds before them in place of the man, you can turn a fleet into as many nymphs: is it a crime for us to have helped the Rutulians a little in return?
85Aeneas is away and does not know: away and unknowing let him stay. 86You have Paphos and Idalium, you have lofty Cythera: why do you meddle with a city pregnant with wars, and with rough hearts? 88Is it we who try to overturn from its foundations the tottering fortune of Phrygia for you, we? Or he who threw the wretched Trojans in the way of the Achaeans? 90What was the cause that Europe and Asia rose up in arms, and treaties were broken by a theft? 92Was it under my leadership that the Dardan adulterer stormed Sparta, or did I supply the weapons, or foster wars with desire? 94Then you should have feared for your own: now, too late, you rise up with unjust complaints and hurl useless abuse.'