The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

sung and their names be honored.
You say that you and your
followers are seeking a new home:
rest here! Carthage welcomes all
gallant men within her walls.
Here there shall be no distinc-
ton between Carthaginian and Trojan.
Your people shall be my people. and
my people shall be yours. Abide in
Carthage and find here the fulhllment
Of your ambition"
And then the queen ordered a great
feast prepared In honor of her guests:
but before the feast there were athletic
games, such as the people of that age
INDUCED In, at which the men Of Garth
age and the followers of Aeneas con-
tended on equal terms. The whole city
gave itself up to festivlty, and the
storm-beaten Trojans were led to for
get their distress.
In the evening the feast was spread
in the great hall of the palace, and
Queen Dido made Aeneas SIT beside her
on her throne. Then, while the festivi-
ties went on around them, she bade him
tell her the story OF his escape from
Troy and his adventures before the
storm drove him to Carthage.
This, most noble queen" said
years had the Greeks, led by Agamem-
non, Menelaus, Achilles and the rest.
sought in vain To capture Troy. Many
great and glorious struggle had taxi
en- place upon the plains before the city.
and many a brilliant deed Of arms had
been done by warriors on both sides.
But strategy accomplished what
valor had failed TO do, and when our
people hauled within the gates a great
wooden horse that the Greeks had left
upon the plain our doom was sealed
That wooden horse was filed with some
OF the bravest OF our enemies. and at
night traitor opened its side and
turned the warriors loose upon our un-
suspecting people.
'Straightway these warriors opened
| the city gates u their soldiers and Troy
was taken. Then followed all the hor-
rors of fire, pillage and massacre, in
| the midst of which 1 managed to find
| my way out of the city, bearing my
| father, Anchises, upon my shoulders.
| and leading my little son by the hand.
Close after me followed my wife, but
she, alas! was soon swept away in the
confusion and utterly lost.
'Some others escaped, also, and when
encountered them some distance from
the city, they placed themselves under
my guidance and command. The fugi-
| tives. as you see, were men. women and
| children, and 1 determined to seek a
| new country and establish a colony,
| perhaps build city that right rival
fair Troy.
I'm time we secured ships and set
sail, meeting with various adventures
on our way. We first landed on the
shores OF Thrace, but the gods sent me
a warning, and we took ship again.
| Then sighting Delos, 1 sailed into its
harbor, and having gone ashore. con-
suited the oracle of Apollo for guidance.
The oracle answered me in ambigu-
| Gus phrase, as oracles always do: Seek
] your ancient mother; there the race OF
Aeneas shall dwell, and reduce all 9TH
er nations to their sway
81 knew not where to find my an
| Client mother but Anchises, my father,
remembered that Crete was the reputed
| home Of my ancestors. To Crete, there
| fore. we sailed and having landed. we
| began to build a city, but sickness
broke out among my people, our crops
| utterly failed, and had a dream In
which was warned to seek Hesperia.
| in the west, whence Dardanus, the real
| founder of the Trojan race, had NIL
grated.
Leaving Crete, therefore, we turned
| our ships toward the west. Having
touched at various points, and met with
| many strange adventures, we at last
reached the coast of Sicily. over against
your own good city of Carthage.
with fair winds, clear skies, smooth
water and hopeful hearts, we were
speeding away prosperously toward our
1 NH xnhn
ment against Paris for awarding the
Golden Apple TO Venice extends to the
whole Trojan race, sent for Aeolus. the
ruler of the winds. and ordered him to
turn loose a gale upon our ships and
| wreck them.
1T was that storm, o queen. through
| which we struggled as we neared this
| hospltable shore. No doubt you mar
| veled at the suddenness with which IL
subsidized. but know you that IL was
| great Neptune that quieted the waves.
| Hearing the storm raging. and know
| ing that he had not ordered one, he
looked from under the water and bade
the winds go back to their keeper.
Then II was that we sailed through
smooth water to your fair city, where
| you and your people have so royalty
received u.s."
| "And here you shall remain, noble
Aeneas, If 1t please you, for whatever
| you ask you shall have, even to the half
of my kingdom. / beg you to seek not
| that unknown country, Hesperia; be
content with Carthage, for here you
shall have riches, luxury and power"
Who will wonder that Aeneas accept
| ed the generous queens offer? And
when she gave him her hand and made
him her royal consort, he ceased to
think of Hesperia and the mysterious
warning he had received in his dream.
But the hands of the gods were upon
this noble Trojan, for Il had been de-
creed that his race should found the
| city of Rome. In Hesperia, or Italy. as
It Is now called. and Jupiter sent Mer-
curry TO remind him of the great destiny
! that had been predicted for him.
Surrounded by luxury. wealth, power.
| love and all the allurements that en-
snare a mans ambition, he was content
| to remain in Carthage with his beauti-
| full queen. But a command from the
gods he dared not disobey. When Mer-
curry had left him. therefore, he began