Round them lie The Libyan plains, a people rough in war.
Queen Dido rules the land, who came from Tyre afar, XLVI.

"Flying her brother.

Dark the tale of crime, And long, but briefly be the sum supplied.
Sychaeus was her lord, in happier time The richest of Phoenicians far and wide In land, and worshipped by his hapless bride.
Her, in the bloom of maidenhood, her sire Had given him, and with virgin rites allied.
But soon her brother filled the throne of Tyre, Pygmalion, swoln with sin; 'twixt whom a feud took fire.
XLVII.

"He, reckless of a sister's love, and blind With lust of gold, Sychaeus unaware Slew by the altar, and with impious mind Long hid the deed, and flattering hopes and fair Devised, to cheat the lover of her care.
But, lifting features marvellously pale, The ghost unburied in her dreams laid bare His breast, and showed the altar and the bale Wrought by the ruthless steel, and solved the crime's dark tale.
XLVIII.

"Then bade her fly the country, and revealed, To aid her flight, an old and unknown weight Of gold and silver, in the ground concealed.
Thus roused, her friends she gathers.