Aeneid

I'm doggedly making my way through book IV of the Aeneid.  Dido has succumbed to a madness that sees Aeneas as an enemy because he's ready to leave her, though she considers the two of them married.  She tells her sister Anna to call Aeneas back, and I thought that these lines are very effective.  They read very directly and powerfully, and one can see why this story more than the rest of the Aeneid has captured the imagination of later writers.

Also, Vergil's playing with the ictus against the meter works really well here -- it's never really stood out for me as a technique as much up till now.