Misera Dido 3- Virgil

Aeneid IV, 333-339 - Virgil: Tandem pauca refert: Finally he makes a brief reply: "Ego te, quae plurima fando enumerare vales, "As for what was between us, and all the many points you are able to mention, numquam, regina, negabo promeritam; never, my Queen, will I deny their justice. nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae, And my memory of you Elissa, will not pall, dum memor ipse mei, not while I can remember my own self, dum spiritus hos regit artus. while breath controls these limbs. Pro re pauca loquar. Let me briefly put this in perspective: Neque ego hanc abscondere furto speravi-ne finge - fugam, I had no intention of slipping away unnoticed - banish the thought - nec coniugis umquam praetendi taedas, but neither did I ever propose marriage aut haec in foedera veni." or enter into any such contract.