the ties of woman’s honour.
First they approach the temples and inquire for pardon
from altar to altar; duly they slaughter chosen sheep to
Ceres the lawgiver, to Phœbus, and to father Lyæus[171]—above 5
all to Juno, who makes marriage bonds her care.
Dido herself, in all her beauty, takes a goblet in her
hand, and pours it out full between the horns of a heifer
of gleaming white, or moves majestic in the presence of
the gods towards the richly-laden altars, and solemnizes 10
the day with offerings, and gazing greedily on the victims’