thrills silently with delight; such was Dido—such she 10

bore herself triumphant through the midst, to speed the

work which had empire for its prospect. Then, at the doors

of the goddess, under the midmost vaulting of the temple,

with a fence of arms round her, supported high on a throne,

she took her seat. There she was giving laws and judgments 15

to her citizens, and equalizing the burden of their

tasks by fair partition, or draughting it by lot, when suddenly

Æneas sees coming among the great crowd Antheus

and Sergestus, and brave Cloanthus, and other of the