Venus spoke. Cupid opened his quiver, 600 [380] as his mother had instructed, and picked a single arrow from the thousand there. None of the other arrows was as sharp and accurate, or truer to the bow. He bent the supple tips against his knee, and his barbed arrow struck Dis in the heart.
This moment shows how Venus directly causes the whole story by making Cupid shoot Dis, proving how much the gods control human events.