outh
and an ear. In the night she flieth between heaven and earth, and sleepeth
not; and in the day she sitteth on some housetop or lofty tower, or
spreadeth fear over mighty cities; and she loveth that which is false even
as she loveth that which is true. So now she went telling through Libya
how AEneas of Troy was come, and Dido was wedded to him, and how they lived
careless and at ease, and thinking not of the work to which they were
called.

And first of all she went to Prince Iarbas, who himself had sought Dido in
marriage. And Iarbas was very wroth when he heard it, and, coming to the
temple of Jupiter, spread his grief before the Gods, how that he had given
a place on his coasts to this Dido, and would have taken her to wife, but
that she had married a stranger from Phrygia, another Paris, whose dress
and adornments were of a woman rather than of a man.

And Jupiter saw that this was so, and he said to Mercury, who was his
messenger, "Go speak to AEneas these words: 'Thus saith the king of Gods
and men. Is this what thy mother promised of thee, twice saving thee from
the spear of the Greeks? Art thou he that shall rule Italy and its mighty
men of war, and spread thy dominion to the ends of the world? If thou
thyself forgettest these things, dost thou grudge to thy son the citadels
of Rome? What doest thou here? Why lookest thou not to Italy? Depart and
tarry not.'"

Then Mercury fitted the winged sandals to his feet, and took the wand with
which he driveth the spirits of the dead, and came right soon to Mount
Atlas, which standeth bearing the heaven on his head, and having always
clouds about his top, and snow upon his shoulders, and a beard that is
stiff with ice. There Mercury stood awhile; then, as a bird which seeks
its prey in the sea, shot headlong down, and came to AEneas where he stood,
with a yellow jasper in his sword-hilt, and a cloak of purple shot with
gold about his shoulders, and spake: "Buildest thou Carthage, forgetting
thine own work? The Almighty Father saith to thee, 'What meanest thou? Why
tarriest thou here? If thou carest not for thyself, yet think of thy son,
and that the Fates have given to him Italy and Rome.'"

And AEneas saw him no more. And he stood stricken with fear and doubt. Fain
would he obey the voice, and go as the Gods commanded. But how should he
tell this purpose to the queen? But at the last it seemed good to him to
call certain of the chiefs, as Mnestheus, and Sergestus