540And while these things are fought out over the plains with equal fortune, the goddess, having made good her promise, when she had steeped the war in blood and joined the deaths of the first battle, leaves Hesperia and, through the air of heaven's vault, addresses Juno in triumph with a proud voice: 'See, discord is brought to completion for you in grim war: tell them to come together in friendship and join in treaties. 547Since I have spattered the Teucrians with Ausonian blood, I will add this too to it, if I can be sure of your will: I will bring the neighbouring cities into the war with rumours, and fire their minds with love of insane war, so that they come from all sides to help; 551I will scatter arms through the fields.' 552Then Juno in reply: 552'There is enough of terror and deceit; 553the causes of war stand firm, they are fighting hand to hand with weapons, and fresh blood stains the arms which chance first gave.
555Such a marriage and such wedding rites let the noble offspring of Venus and King Latinus himself celebrate. 557That father, the ruler of high Olympus, would not wish you to roam too freely through the upper air: leave this place; 559I myself, if any further fortune of toil remains, will direct it.' 560Saturn's daughter had uttered such words. 561But she raises her wings, hissing with snakes, and makes for her home in Cocytus, leaving the heights above. 563There is a place in the middle of Italy beneath high mountains, renowned and celebrated by fame in many lands, the valley of Amsanctus: a flank of forest, dark with dense leaves, hems it in on either side, and in the middle a crashing torrent sounds over the rocks with its twisting eddy.
568Here a dreadful cave and the breathing-holes of cruel Dis are shown, and a huge chasm, where Acheron has broken through, opens its pestilential jaws, in which the Fury, hateful power, hid herself and relieved earth and heaven.