96With such words Juno pleaded, and all the heaven-dwellers murmured in varied assent, as when the first gusts, caught in the woods, murmur and roll unseen rumblings, betraying to sailors the winds to come. 100Then the all-powerful father, who holds the highest power over the world, begins; 101as he speaks, the lofty house of the gods falls silent, and the earth trembles to its base; the high air is silent, then the Zephyrs drop, and the sea calms its waters to stillness: 'Take these words of mine to heart, then, and fix them there. 105Since it is not permitted that the Ausonians be joined in treaty with the Teucrians, and your discord finds no end, whatever fortune each has today, whatever hope each carves out, whether he be Trojan or Rutulian, I shall treat them with no distinction.
109Whether it is by the fates of the Italians that the camp is held under siege, or by Troy's evil error and sinister warnings. 111Nor do I release the Rutulians: what each has begun will bring him his toil and his fortune. 112King Jupiter is the same to all. 113The fates will find a way.' 113By the rivers of his Stygian brother, by the banks seething with pitch and the black abyss, he nodded assent, and with his nod made all Olympus tremble. 116Here was the end of speaking. 116Then Jupiter rises from his golden throne, and the heaven-dwellers escort him in their midst to the threshold.