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Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
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Unspeakable, queen, are the pains you command me to renew.
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Line 3; these are the opening words of Aeneas's narrative about the fall of Troy, addressed to the queen Dido of Carthage.
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Variant translation: A grief too much to be told, O queen, you bid me renew.

 
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