usband. Hoping
to seize her treasures, Pygmalion granted her request. Putting her
wealth on board ship, she mixed some bags filled with sand among
those that contained gold, for the purpose of deceiving those whom
the king had sent to observe her and to escort her to Tyre. When out
at sea, she threw the bags overboard, to appease the spirit of her
husband, as she pretended, by sacrificing those treasures that had
cost him his life. Then addressing the officers that accompanied
her, she assured them that they would meet with but a bad reception
from the king for having permitted so much wealth to be wasted, and
that it would be more advantageous for them to fly from his
resentment. The officers embarking in her design, after they had
taken on board some Tyrian nobles, who were privy to the plan, she
offered sacrifice to Hercules, and again set sail. Landing in
Cyprus, they carried off eighty young women, who were married to her
companions. On discovering her flight, Pygmalion at first intended
to pursue her; but the intreaties of his mother, and the
remonstrances of the priests, caused him to abandon his design.

Having arrived on the coast of Africa, Dido bargained with the
inhabitants of the coast for as much ground as she could encompass
with a bull's hide. This being granted, she cut the hide into as
many thongs as enclosed ground sufficient to build a fort upon;
which was in consequence called 'Byrsa.' In making the foundation,
an ox's head was dug up, which being supposed to portend slavery to
the city, if built there, they removed to another spot, where, in
digging, they found a horse's head, which was considered to be a
more favourable omen. The story of the citadel being named from the
bull's hide was very probably invented by the Greeks; who, finding
in the Phoenician narrative of the foundation of Carthage, the
citadel mentioned by the Tyrian name of 'Bostra,' which had that
signification, and fancying, from its resemblance to their word
+bursa+, that it was derived from it, invented the fable of the hide.

Being pressed by Iarbas, king of Mauritania, to marry him, she asked
for three months to come to a determination. The time expiring, she
ordered a sacrifice to be made as an expiation to her husband's
shade, and caused a pile to be erected, avowedly for the purpose of
burning all that belonged to him. Ascending it, she pretended to