ive me water, ye maidens, that I may wash her
wounds, and if there be any breath left in her, we may yet stay it."

Then she climbed on to the pile, and caught her sister in her arms, and
sought to staunch the blood with her garments. Three times did Dido strive
to raise her eyes; three times did her spirit leave her. Three times she
would have raised herself upon her elbow; three times she fell back upon
the bed, looking with wandering eyes for the light, and groaning that she
yet beheld it.

Then Juno, looking down from heaven, saw that her pain was long, and
pitied her, and sent down Iris, her messenger, that she might loose the
soul that struggled to be free. For, seeing that she died not by nature,
nor yet by the hand of man, but before her time and of her own madness,
Queen Proserpine had not shred the ringlet from her head which she shreds
from them that die. Wherefore Iris, flying down with dewy wings from
heaven, with a thousand colors about her from the light of the sun, stood
about her head and said, "I give thee to death, even as I am bidden, and
loose thee from thy body." Then she shred the lock, and Queen Dido gave up
the ghost.

THE FUNERAL GAMES OF ANCHISES

By Charles Henry Hanson

AEneas called together all his followers, and reminded minded them that a
year had now passed since the death of his father. Not of their own
purpose, but doubtless by the will of the Gods, they had now returned to
the friendly land where his bones had been laid. It was therefore his
intention to celebrate funeral games. For eight days there should be
feasting, for which Acestes had generously provided two oxen for each
ship; and on the ninth day he would give prizes to be contested in the
foot-race, in shooting with the bow, and in boxing with the cestus.

Having thus spoken, the hero, according to the custom of that time, placed
a wreath of myrtle upon his head and proceeded to the tomb of his father,
where he poured out, as a libation to the Gods, two bowls of wine, two of
new milk, and two of sacred blood. Then he scattered flowers over the
tomb, and offered up a prayer to his father's shade. Immediately there
came forth from the tomb a huge snake with glittering scales of blue and
gold, which, after tasting of what had been poured out, retired again to
the recesses of the vault. Believing this creature to be an attendant on
his father's spirit, AEneas offered rich sacrifices--ewes, sows, and
bullocks--and h