The Trojan chief appeared in open sight
August in visage, and serenely bright.
His mother-goddess, with her hands divine,
Had formed his curling locks, and made his temples shine,
And given his rolling eyes a sparkling grace,
And breathed a youthful vigor on his face.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK I.

AEneas now made himself known to the queen and thanked her for her
kindness to his people. Dido was astonished at the sudden appearance
of the hero, of whom she had already heard much. Her father, Belus,
she said, had told her of the fall of Troy and of the name of AEneas,
and having herself suffered many misfortunes, she had learned to
have pity for the distressed.

"For I myself, like you, have been distressed;
Till heaven afforded me this place of rest;
Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK I.

Then she invited the hero into the royal apartments where a grand
banquet was prepared in his honor. She also caused a supply of
provisions to be taken to his people on the shore--twenty oxen, a
hundred swine, and a hundred fat lambs. Meanwhile AEneas sent Achates
to bring his son Ascanius to the city, bidding him at the same time to
take with him presents for the queen, costly and beautiful things that
had been saved from the ruins of Troy--a mantle embroidered with gold,
a scepter which had belonged to I-li'o-ne, King Priam's daughter, and
a necklace strung with pearls.