Aeneid Book 4, lines 173 - 195
Rumour
ille dies primus leti primusque malorum
Dido and Aeneas: the monster Rumour spreads the news
Latin Poems
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Aeneid Book 4, lines 238 - 258
Mercury’s journey to Carthage
Dixerat. ille patris magni parere parabat
Mercury's journey to Carthage
Aeneid Book 4, lines 362 - 393
Dido and Aeneas: Hell hath no fury …
Talia dicentem iamdudum aversa tuetur
Dido and Aeneas: the confrontation
Aeneid Book 4, lines 393 - 411
The Trojans prepare to set sail from Carthage
At pius Aeneas, quamquam lenire dolentem
The Trojans prepare to set sail from Carthage
Aeneid Book 4, lines 642 – 668
The death of Dido.
at trepida et coeptis immanibus effera Dido
The death of Dido
Aeneid Book 4, lines 685 - 705
Dido’s release
Sic fata gradus evaserat altos
Dido's final release
Aeneid Book 5, lines 680 - 699
Fire strikes Aeneas’s fleet
non idcirco flamma atque incendia viris indomitas posuere
Fire in Aeneas's fleet
Aeneid Book 5, lines 719 - 740
Anchises’s ghost invites Aeneas to visit the underworld
Talibus incensus dictis senioris amici
Anchises calls Aeneas to visit the underworld
Aeneid Book 5, lines 833 - 861 and 867-871
Palinurus the helmsman is lost
princeps ante omnis densum Palinurus agebat agmen
Palinurus the helmsman is lost