DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK IV.

Vergil thus makes Dido prophesy the long conflict between Rome and
Carthage, (known as the Punic wars) and the achievements of the famous
Carthaginian general, Han'ni-bal, who carried the war into the heart
of Italy (218 B. C.) and defeated the Romans in several great battles.

In her grief at the departure of AEneas, the unhappy queen resolved to
put an end to her life. She bade her servants erect in the inner court
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
behind him. Then mounting the pyre, to which flaming torches had been
applied, she stabbed herself with her false lover's sword, and so
died.

The Trojans from their ships, saw the smoke and flame ascending from
the palace of Dido. They knew not the cause, yet AEneas, suspecting
what had happened, deeply lamented the fate of the unhappy queen.

The cause unknown; yet his presaging mind
The fate of Dido from the fire divined.
Dire auguries from hence the Trojans draw;
Till neither fires nor shining shores they saw.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK IV.

The fleet was no sooner out of sight of the Libyan coast than the
pilot Palinurus observed signs of a storm. He proposed, therefore,
that they should make for the Sicilian shore, which was not far
distant. AEneas gladly consented, for he wished to stand again upon
the spot where his father's bones were laid. Moreover the good king