BkIV:1-53 Dido and Anna Discuss Aeneas. But the queen, wounded long since by intense love,. feeds the hurt with her life-blood, weakened by hidden fire.

Now felt the Queen the sharp, slow-gathering pangs of love; and out of every pulsing vein nourished the wound and fed its viewless fire.

A summary of Book 4 in Virgil's The Aeneid. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Aeneid and what it means.

Virgil uses negative, violent imagery of wounds and flame to describe Dido's love for Aeneas. His metaphors foreshadow her tragic fate, even while she piously ...

O relentless Love, to what do you not drive the heats of men. Once more she must needs break into tears, once more assail him with prayer, and humbly bow down ...

Dido confides to Anna, her sister, that the Trojan warrior is the only man she has met since the death of her husband, Sychaeus.

'Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent! ... quem sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis! credo equidem, nec vana fides, genus esse deorum.

For you alone I suffer in my fame, Bereft of honor, and expos'd to shame. Whom have I now to trust, ungrateful guest? (That only name remains of all the rest!)

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 4. But the queen for a long time now, smitten by dire torment, nourishes the wound in her veins, and is seized by hidden passion. The ...

"So, you traitor, you really believed you'd keep this a secret, this great outrage? Steal away in silence from my shores? Can nothing hold you back?