“Oh, dear relics, dear as long as Fate and the gods allowed, receive my spirit and set me free of pain. 810 I have lived a life. I’ve journeyed through the course that Fortune charted for me. And now I pass to the world below, my ghost in all its glory. I have founded a noble city, seen my ramparts rise. I have avenged my husband, punished my blood-brother, our mortal foe. Happy, all too happy I would have been if only the Trojan keels had never grazed our coast.” She presses her face in the bed and cries out: “I shall die unavenged, but die I will! So— so—I rejoice to make my way among the
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