Note 212 — Chapter V · MARK ANTONY
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Dido and her Æneas shall want troops, And all the haunt be ours. (iV. xiv. 52.)
We have not got much further in explaining Shakespeare’s allusion than when Warburton made the Warburtonian emendation of Sichaeus for Æneas. Shakespeare had probably quite forgotten Virgil’s
Illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat: ... atque inimica refugit In nemus umbriferum. (Æ. vi. 469.)
Perhaps he remembered only that Æneas, ancestor and representative of the Romans, between his two authorised marriages with ladies of the “superior” races, intercalated the love-adventure, which alone seized the popular imagination and which of all the deities Venus alone approved, with ran African queen.