The myths concerning the founding of Rome, which Vergil has received from earlier writers, he has here fused into a literary epic. […] an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! […] open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!” […] Fair was the form of Cypris while Adonis was living, but her beauty has died with Adonis! […] With thee has the girdle of my beauty perished.