waited until morning he would find the harbor filled with queen Dido's
fleet to prevent his departure. Starting from his couch AEneas quickly
roused his companions and gave the order for instantly putting to sea.

"Haste to your oars! your crooked anchors weigh,
And speed your flying sails, and stand to sea!
A god commands! he stood before my sight,
And urged me once again to speedy flight."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK IV.

Promptly the order of the chief was obeyed, and soon the Trojan
vessels were sailing away from the city of Dido. And at dawn of
morning the unhappy queen, looking forth from her watch tower, beheld
them far out at sea. Then she prayed that there might be eternal
enmity between the descendants of AEneas and the people of Carthage,
and that a man would come of her nation who would persecute the Trojan
race with fire and sword.

"These are my prayers, and this my dying will;
And you, my Tyrians, every curse fulfill:
Perpetual hate and mortal wars proclaim
Against the prince, the people, and the name.
These grateful offerings on my grave bestow;
Nor league, nor love, the hostile nations know!
Now and from hence in every future age,
When rage excites your arms, and strength supplies the rage,
Rise some avenger of our Libyan blood;
With fire and sword pursue the perjured brood:
Our arms, our seas, our shores, opposed to theirs;
And the same hate descend on all our heirs!"