ABSTRACT
It is an odd feature of the narrative of this episode that Dido places on her pyre an effigy of Aeneas which will have no further role to play and is never mentioned again (iv 504-8):1
at regina pyra penetrali in sede sub auras erecta ingenti taedis atque ilice secta, intenditque locum sertis et fronde coronat funerea; super exuvias ensemque relictum effigiemque toro locat haud ignara futuri.
