Book 4.693-705
Juno pities Dido and sends down Iris to cut a lock from Dido's head. Dido dies.
Tum Iuno omnipotens, longum miserata dolorem
693
difficilisque obitus, Irim demisit Olympo,
694
quae luctantem animam nexosque resolveret artus.
695
Nam quia nec fato, merita nec morte peribat,
696
sed misera ante diem, subitoque accensa furore,
697
nondum illi flavum Proserpina vertice crinem
698
abstulerat, Stygioque caput damnaverat Orco.
699
Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis,
700
mille trahens varios adverso sole colores,
701
devolat, et supra caput adstitit: “Hunc ego Diti
702
sacrum iussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo.”
703
Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat: omnis et una
704
dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit.
705