Then he looked, satisfying his soul with the paintings on the walls.  For there was the city of Troy.  In this part of the field the Greeks fled and the youth of Troy pursued them, and in that the men of Troy fled, and Achilles followed hard upon them in his chariot.  Also he saw the white tents of Rhesus, king of Thrace, whom the fierce Diomed slew in his sleep, when he was newly come to Troy, and drave his horses to the camp before they ate of the grass of the fields of Troy or drank the waters of Nanthus.  There also Troilus was pictured, ill matched in battle with Achilles.  His horses bare him along; but he lay on his back in the chariot, yet holding the reins, and his neck and head were dragged upon the earth, and the spear-point made a trail in the dust.  And in another place the women of Troy went suppliant-wise to the temple of Minerva, bearing a great and beautiful robe, sad and beating their breasts, and with hair unbound; but the goddess regarded them not.  Also Achilles dragged the body of Hector three times round the walls of Troy, and was selling it for gold.  And AEneas groaned when he saw the man whom he loved, and the old man Priam reaching out helpless hands.  Also he knew himself, fighting in the midst of the Grecian chiefs; black Memnon also he knew, and the hosts of the East; and Penthesilea leading the army of the Amazons with shields shaped as the moon.  Fierce she was to see, with one breast bared for battle, and a golden girdle beneath it, a damsel daring to fight with men.

But while AEneas marveled to see these things, lo! there came, with a great throng of youths behind her, Dido, most beautiful of women, fair as Diana, when, on the banks of Eurotas or on the hills of Cynthus, she leads the dance with a thousand nymphs of the mountains about her.  On her shoulder she bears a quiver, and overtops them all, and her mother, even Latona, silently rejoices to behold her.  So fair and seemly to see was Dido as she bare herself right nobly in the midst, being busy in the work of her kingdom.  Then she sat herself down on a lofty throne in the gate of the temple, with many armed men about her.  And she did justice between man and man; also she divided the work of the city, sharing it equally or parting by lot.

Then of a sudden AEneas heard a great clamor, and saw a company of men come quickly to the place, among whom were Antheus and Sergestus and Cloanthus, and others of the men of Troy that had been parted from him in the storm.  Right glad was he to behold them, yet was not without fear; and though he would fain have come forth and caught them by the hand, yet did he tarry, waiting to hear how the men had fared, where they had left their ships, and wherefore they were come.