Story of Aeneas

nd; his looks and words were imprinted on her heart. In short, the Carthaginian queen was in love with the Trojan prince. She confided her secret to her sister Anna, and she said th

who might some time attack the new city. And if the Trojan arms were joined to those of Carthage, both would be strong enough to resist the most powerful enemy, and the new kingdom would be

accord with her own feelings. Her scruples about a second marriage soon vanished, an

eads the Troj

ls, amidst th

yrian wealth,

thout his labo

ows, to tempt he

ongue forbids t

es and feasts r

ce she feeds he

in to hear th

tures, and th

r and o'er; but

begs to hear

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nd his people, she thought, could be persuaded to settle in Carthage, that city and not the long talked of Rome, would come to be the center of po

with my Tyria

l be yours,

ingdom, one

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ld words saying, "Who could be so foolish as to reject such an alliance, and prefer to be at war with the queen of heaven? Yet there is a difficulty. I do not know whether it is the pleasure of Jupiter that the Tyrians and Trojans

m, but she had refused. Great was his anger, therefore, when he heard that the Trojan chief had been received and honored in Carthage and that a marriage between him and the queen was talked of as a certain thing. So he went to the temple of his father Jupiter, and complained bitterly of the conduct of Dido in rejecting himself and taking a foreign prince i

owerfu

world below an

wn with this s

lingering in

not move a m

se from flittin

rtunes of thy

rown let young

sonian sceptre

rial name, is

AEneid,

that he must obey, but how could he break the intelligence to

say, or how s

as! remains, t

over and the p

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her the crews, and prepare their arms, and to do all as quietly and secretly as possible. Meanwhile h

e, the softest h

ve-sick lady

tender mind,

the sovereign

AEneid,

ief and tears, and she implored him to alter his resolution, declaring that if he would thus suddenly leave her she must surely die. AEneas was in deep distress at the spectacl

AEneas was asleep in his ship, appeared to him in a dream, bidding him to speed away that very night, for if he waited until morning he would find the harbor fill

ars! your crooke

flying sails, a

s! he stood b

nce again to s

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happy queen, looking forth from her watch tower, beheld them far out at sea. Then she prayed that there might be eternal enmity between the de

rayers, and thi

yrians, every

e and mortal

nce, the people

offerings on

love, the host

hence in ever

ur arms, and strengt

enger of our

word pursue the

as, our shores,

ate descend on

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prophesy the long con

Punic wars) and the ac

Han'ni-bal, who carrie

d defeated the Romans i

rt yard of her palace a lofty pile of wood, called a funeral pyre, and upon it to place an image of AEneas as well as the arms he had left

m the palace of Dido. They knew not the cause, yet AEneas, suspecti

nown; yet his

ido from the

from hence the

res nor shining

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ted, for he wished to stand again upon the spot where his father's bones were laid. Moreover the good king A-ces'tes, who ruled in that part of the island, was a Trojan by descent, and he had hospitably received the wanderers

lk on the ground, as an offering to the gods. Fresh flowers were then scattered on the tomb. While these ceremonies were being performed all present were startled by the appearance of a huge serpent wi

rising altar

nster shot al

lay amidst the

lling tongue as

holy food, the

llow tomb ret

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upposed, therefore, that his father was now elevated to the dignity of a god, for

ched and so well did they manage their vessels that both would probably have reached the goal or winning post together, had it not been for the interference of the gods. The goal was a branch of an oak tree fixed to a small rock in the bay facing the beach on which the spectators were assembled. As the Scylla was approaching the rock on the home run, the Pristis, which had been pressing close behind, shot alongside, and was almost beak to beak with its competitor. Then Cloanthus stretch

us with his br

sped the galle

ft, or winged

the port, obt

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st multitude of Trojans and Sicilians proceeded to a grassy plain not far from the shore where the other games were held. The first was a foot race in which a large number took part. Among them were Eu-ry'a-lus and Ni'sus, Tro

aption: THE FOOT RAC

followed by Elymus, with Diores close by his side. Nisus would have reached the goal first, but just as he was approaching it, he lost his foothold at a slippery spot on the course, and fell headlon

fection clai

is in h

rom the so

imself in

ripped and s

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ided that the prize should go to him who had actually reached the goal first. Nevertheless, he gave Salius a lion's hide, heavy with shaggy fur and gilt claws. Nisus, too, claimed a

firmly in the ground. Hippocoon won the first chance in the drawing of lots. His arrow struck the mast with such force that it fixed itself in the wood. The arrow of Mnestheus broke the cord by which the pigeon was attached to the mast, and as she flew off,

e mid expa

kindles as

draws a fi

ng, vanish

N, AEnei

oblet embossed in gold, which bad belonged to his father Anchises. But prizes were given to Eurytion also and to the other archers. Then followed the last

ris down to the Trojan women, who sat together on the shore while the men were assembled at their games, for at these exercises females were not allowed to be spectators. As the women sat on the beach, looking out upo

one) what oce

l! what labor

ord, and, with

for peace, and pl

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f we had died by the hands of the Greeks before the walls of our native city! What miserable doom does fortune reserve for us? The seventh year since the destruction of Troy has already passed, and yet, after having wandered over so many lands and seas, we still pursue an ever-fleeing Italy; and we are tossed

this point one of the women, Pyr'go by name, who had just then joined the party, discovered that it was not

matrons, ha

ing in her

celesti

yes, how brig

t, walk are

self I le

worn, with c

one should

nce to Anc

N, AEnei

Trojan women, astonished at what they had seen, and excited almost to madness, cried

d; they snatch w

tars; firs and

saplings, mingl

rches, on the

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from the scene. But in spite of the efforts of the men the fire rapidly spread, and it seemed as if the entire Trojan fleet was doomed to destruction. Then the pious AEneas, with upraised hand

Italian land. But one of his people, an old and a very wise man, named Nau'tes, strongly urged that the will of the gods ought to be obeyed. As to those who were weary of the enterprise-the aged, the feeble, and such of th

Acestes is of

se the secret

build a commo

estes' name,

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an colony was formed in Sicily, and AEneas marked out with a plow the boundaries of the new city, which he called after the king's name. Soon afterwards preparations for depa

for Venus had entreated Neptune

safety. But there was to be one exception. "One life," he said, "shall be given for many." The victim was the famo

de him to lie down and sleep, while he himself would stand at the helm and steer the ship. But Palinurus refused to quit his post. Then the treacherous god waved before his eyes a branch that had been

lf took charge of the ship, and the whole fleet, secure under the pro