Aeneas: "O goddess, if I were to trace the whole of our story,
Beginning right from the start and going straight on,
And if thou hadst leisure to hear our record of woe,
The sky would glow dark ere I came to the end of my tale
And the star of evening come to bury the daylight."

Venus: "Whoever thou art, thou art not, as I think, one abhorred
By the heavenly ones, as thou breathest the breath of life..."

--VIRGIL, THE AENEID