[454] It has been asked how Aeneas knew that Dido was coming. Probably the idea is that he sees the senate assembled and the crowd waiting. ‘Quae Fortuna sit urbi miratur,’ for “miratur Fortunam urbis,” marvels at the prosperity of the city, shown in the splendour of its temple. Aeneas sees everything in the light of his own great enterprise; so his thoughts would naturally pass from the temple to the city, of whose greatness it is an evidence. For ‘Fortuna,’ see on G. 4. 209.
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