Aeneas ends his first speech to Dido as follows:quae te tam laeta tuleruntsaecula? qui tanti talem genuere parentes?in freta dum fluuii current, dum montibus umbraelustrabunt conuexa, polus dum sidera pascet,semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt,quae me cumque uocant terrae.A number of parallels have been cited for 607–9, notably Eel. 1.59f. (an adynaton) and the positive statement (about Daphnis) at Eel. 5.76ff., which even ends with the same line: