Aeneid book 4

As Aeneas finishes his story, Dido thinks about her love for Aeneas and starting his city, and later talks to Anna about her and Aeneas getting married. Juno sees Dido's love as a means of preventing Aeneas not going to Italy, and offers Venus a peace offering, and suggests that Dido and Aeneas get alone together. Venus sees what Juno is up to, but complies anyway. By means of a storm, Juno gets the two alone in a cave while out on a royal hunt. After spending time together, the two go back to Carthage as lovers, and Dido considers them to already be married. Jupiter learns of the love between them, and sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his goal to found Rome. Aeneas, not knowing how to tell Dido, tries to make ready to leave without her knowing. She finds out, and makes a fire in the courtyard, unlit. Aeneas leaves, and Dido, heart broke, goes onto the pyre built earlier, and kills herself. Juno pities her, and ends Dido's suffering.