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<i>For ten years the Greeks had besieged Troy, and on the
tenth they took and utterly destroyed that ancient city. The 
inhabitants who had escaped captivity and the sword, wandered
in exile to many quarters of the earth. Now the chief
band of exiles was led by Aeneas, son of Venus and Anchises,
and son-in-law of Priam, king of Troy.</i>

<i>After many advantages on land and sea, Aeneas came, in
the sixth year, to Sicily, where he was kindly entertained by
Acestes, king of that land, and where his aged father died
and was buried. Thence setting sail in the summer of the
seventh year, he approved the shares of Africa. Here a
violent storm arose which scattered and all but destroyed the
Trojan ships. Æneas, with a number of his companions,
was cast upon a desert coast, where they passed the night
in gloomy forebodings. In the early morning, Aeneas and
Achates set forth to explore the land, and came to the newly
founded city of Carthage.</i>

<i>Now Phoenician Dido, also, with a band of exiles, had fled
from her native Tyre, to escape the persecutions of her brother,
Pygmalion, who had already slain Sychaeus, her husband.
And to the land of Africa had she come, and built her a city,
even the city of Carthage.</i>

<i>And so these two, Aeneas, prince of Troy, and Dido, fugi 
tive from Tyre, now meet in distant Africa and live the
tragedy which fate had in store</i>

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