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You are reading about Dido's last moments. Prosperina refuses to let Dido die. Why? Is her death necessary for justice?

?Queen Juno cut this torture short, in pity,

Dispatching Iris earthward from Olympus

To free the struggling spirit from its bonds. 695

There was no fate or justice in her death.

Her madness brought a wretched, early end.

Proserpina had cut no lock of blond hair

To dedicate this life to Stygian Orcus.

So dewy Iris soared on saffron wings,         700

Trailing a thousand sun-reflecting colors,

And floated near her head. "I am to take

This gift to Dis and free you from your body."

Her right hand made the stroke. All living heat

Vanished, and life dissolved into the wind.