i.e. Dido,the queen of Carthage,stabbed herself on a funeral pyre after the Trojan he-ro Aeneas,her lover,secretly sailed away迦太基女王，（指）狄多，在她的戀人——特洛伊的英雄埃涅阿斯悄悄上船離她而去后，自己到火葬的柴堆上自殺。下文the false Trojan即指埃涅阿斯 △Mid.1.1.173: “And by that fire whichburned the Carthage queen”，憑著迦太基女王舉火自焚的烈焰（起誓）。