Book 4.642-652
Dido climbs to the top of the pyre and sees many of the items left by Aeneas.
At trepida, et coeptis immanibus effera Dido,
642
sanguineam volvens aciem, maculisque trementis
643
interfusa genas, et pallida morte futura,
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interiora domus inrumpit limina, et altos
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conscendit furibunda rogos, ensemque recludit
646
Dardanium, non hos quaesitum munus in usus.
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Hic, postquam Iliacas vestes notumque cubile
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conspexit, paulum lacrimis et mente morata,
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incubuitque toro, dixitque novissima verba:
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“Dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebant,
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accipite hanc animam, meque his exsolvite curis.
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