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Aeneid: Aeneas And Dido

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John; Virgil

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Translation: Dryden, John

Aeneas And Dido

This naturally leads me to the defense of the famous anachronism, in making Aeneas and Dido contemporaries; for 'tis certain that the hero liv'd almost two hundred years before the building of Carthage. One who imitates Bocaline says that Virgil was accus'd before Apollo for this error. The god soon found that he was not able to defend his favorite by reason, for the case was clear: he therefore gave this middle sentence, that anything might be allow'd to his son Virgil, on the account of his other merits; that, being a ...

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