"Ho, young men! saw you, as you came,
Any of all my sisters wandering here,
Having a quiver girded to her side,
And clothed in a spotted leopard's skin?"
—Marlowe and Nash, Dido.
11:26. Goddess.
"Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island."
—Shakespeare, Tempest.
11:27. Phœbus' sister. Diana, sister of Phœbus Apollo. 12:1. Agenor. Twin brother of Belus and founder of Sidon, from whom Dido was descended. 12:18. Hope.
"Poor girl! put on thy stifling widow's weed,
And 'scape at once from Hope's accursed bands,
To-day thou wilt not see him, nor to-morrow,
And the next day will be a day of sorrow."
—Keats, Isabella.
12:33. Woman. "Dux femina facti,"—motto on the medal in 1588, in honor of Elizabeth's victories over the Spanish Armada. Cf. Kingsley's Westward Ho!
12:36. Byrsa. A word which in the Carthaginian language meant citadel, but sounded like a Greek word meaning bull's hide. From this confusion, apparently, arose the story that Dido cut a bull's hide into very thin strings and so encompassed much ground for her new city. 13:24. Breath of life.
"So drew mankind in vain the vital air,
Unformed, unfriended by those kindly cares,
That health and vigor to the soul impart."
—Gray, Education and Government.
