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Rh fleeting moments, and died of joy in his arms, we find the treacherous Eriphyle, who, for the bribe of a golden necklace, persuaded her husband Amphiarus to go to his predestined death in the same war, and even such disgraces to their sex as were Phædra and Pasiphae. In these Mourning Fields Æneas meets one whom he would, it may be conceived, have very gladly avoided. Half veiled in mist, seen dimly like the moon through a cloud, Dido stands before him there: and thus, for the first time, he is made certain of her death. Æneas is ready with regrets, and even tears.

She on the ground averted kept

Hard eyes that neither smiled nor wept;

Nor bated more of her stern mood,

Than if a monument she stood."

At last, without a word, she turns from her false lover, and seeks in the dim groves the society of her dead husband Sichæus.