Imperial Juno with large eyes replied: “Determine, Neptune, for thyself, and save Aeneas, or, all blameless as he is, Abandon him to perish by the hand Of Peleus’ son, Achilles. We have sworn⁠— Minerva and myself⁠—that never we Would aid in aught the Trojans to escape Their day of ruin, though the town of Troy Sink to the dust in the destroying flames⁠— Flames kindled by the warlike sons of Greece.”