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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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“I dare not,” she replied, “assume the name
Of goddess, or celestial honors claim:
For Tyrian virgins bows and quivers bear,
And purple buskins o'er their ankles wear.
Know, gentle youth, in Libyan lands you are—
A people rude in peace, and rough in war.
The rising city, which from far you see,
Is Carthage, and a Tyrian colony.
Phoenician Dido rules the growing state,
Who fled from Tyre, to shun her brother's hate.
Great were her wrongs, her story full of fate;
Which I will sum in short. Sichaeus, known
For wealth, and brother to the Punic throne,
Possess'd fair Dido's bed; and either heart
At once was wounded with an equal dart.
Her father gave her, yet a spotless maid;
Pygmalion then the Tyrian scepter sway'd:
One who condemn'd divine and human laws.
Then strife ensued, and cursed gold the cause.
The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth,
With steel invades his brother's life by stealth;
Before the sacred altar made him bleed,
And long from her conceal'd the cruel deed.
Some tale,