Book 4.663-671
Everyone sees Dido collapse on the pyre, and Rumor runs through the city proclaiming her suicide.
Dixerat; atque illam media inter talia ferro
663
conlapsam aspiciunt comites, ensemque cruore
664
spumantem, sparsasque manus. It clamor ad alta
665
atria; concussam bacchatur Fama per urbem.
666
Lamentis gemituque et femineo ululatu
667
tecta fremunt; resonat magnis plangoribus aether,
668
non aliter, quam si immissis ruat hostibus omnis
669
Karthago aut antiqua Tyros, flammaeque furentes
670
culmina perque hominum volvantur perque deorum.
671