are sacking a huge heap of wheat, provident of winter

days, and laying up the plunder in their stores; a black

column is seen moving through the plain, and they convey

their booty along the grass in a narrow path: some are 25

putting their shoulders to the big grains, and pushing them

along; others are rallying the force and punishing the

stragglers; the whole track is in a glow of work. What

were your feelings then, poor Dido, at a sight like this!

How deep the groans you heaved, when you looked out 30

from your lofty tower on a beach all seething and swarming,