- Scarcely out of sight of the land of Sicily, they joyfully set sail on the deep, rushing into the salt spray with their bronze-capped prows, when Juno, cherishing her eternal wound in her breast, said to herself: "Am I vanquished, to give up on my plan, and unable to turn away the king of the Teucrians from Italy? Surely I am forbidden by the Fates."
- Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"
Mal perdiam de vista as terras da Sicília / e em rumo do alto mar alegres velejavam – / brônzeas proas sulcando as ondas espumosas – / quando Juno, em seu peito conservando / incurável ferida, a si mesma dizia: / “Será preciso que da empresa começada / eu desista vencida, sem poder / da Itália o rei dos teucros afastar, / porque sou impedida pelos fados?"