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I am afraid you will have suffered disappointment from time to time / in the course of the telling of this greatest of great stories. I am / afraid that I have been obliged to speak rather slightingly of that / beautiful lady for whose sake you will have heard that the Trojan War / was fought, the lady about whom Homer sang. I have made my excuses / for that disrespectful treatment.
There is another famous lady of whom Virgil, the great Latin poet, / sings -- Queen Dido, of Carthage. His story goes that Æneas, the / Trojan, escaping over-sea after the fall of Troy, was swept by storms / into Carthage, where Dido entertained him pleasantly. From her court / he went to Italy, and from him the Romans were said to be descended. / The Æneid -- that is, the story of Æneas -- is the name of Virgil's poem / in which this tale is told. You may believe as much or as little of / it as you like, for there is no evidence at all that it is true; but / it is a fine tale, finely told.