Book 4 - Dido

• Consumed by its hidden fire [Dido]
• Like a wounded doe [Dido]
• She would lie long after he was gone [on the couch]
• The towers she was building ceased to rise
• ‘Let us make one people of them’ (Juno)
• In its purple and gold
• A huge and horrible monster [Rumour]
• Keeping each other warm the whole winter through, forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves of lust
• Tyrian purple there hung from his shoulders
• ‘You owe him [Ascanius] the land of Rome and the kingdom of Italy’
• Like a Bacchant [Dido]
• I [Dido] am hated because of you
• It is not by my own will that I search for Italy
• But Aeneas was faithful to his duty. Much as he longed to soothe her
• He heard but did not heed her words
• Like Pentheus in his frenzy
• She decided to die
• ‘Women are unstable creatures, always changing’ (Mercury)
• Let there be war between the nations and between their sons forever
• It is not only yourself you have destroyed but also your sister and your people