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Dido
It was Porson who said he could rhyme on any subject; and being
asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, gave this couplet -
When Dido found Æneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di-do dum(b).
In the old Eton Latin grammar the three gerunds are called —di,
-do, —dum. In modern school primers they are -dum,
-di, -do.
When Dido saw Æneas needs must go,
She wept in silence, and was dum(b) Di-do.
E. C. B.
Dido was queen of Carthage, who fell in love with Æneas, driven by a
storm to her shores. After abiding awhile at Carthage, he was compelled
by Mercury to leave the hospitable queen. Dido, in grief, burnt herself
to death on a funeral pile. (Virgil from Æneid, i. 494 to
iii. 650.)
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