ARGUMENT Dido opens her heart to her sister.

But for her promised loyalty to the dead Sychaeus, she must have yielded (1-36).

Anna pleads for AEneas, and Dido half-yielding sacrifices to the marriage-gods.

The growth of her passion is described (37-104).

Venus feigns assent to Juno's proposal that AEneas shall marry Dido and be king of Carthage.
At a hunting Juno will send a storm and the lovers will shelter in a cave, and there plight their vows (105-144).