| A | B |
|---|
| Cyllenius | Mercury |
| has a "piniferum caput" and "horrida barba glacie" | Atlas |
| Aeneas's reaction when he first saw Mercury | shocked |
| "uxorius" | slave to his wife |
| "perfide" | deceptive |
| speaker of "dissimulare sperasti, perfide?" | Dido |
| dissimulate | pretend |
| what is Dido's last wish | a child who looks like Aeneas |
| Elissa | epithet for Dido |
| interpretes divum | Mercury's job |
| speaker of "Italiam non sponte sequor" | Aeneas |
| Saturnius | Jupiter |
| Dido's emotion in her last speech (while alive) to Aeneas | angry |
| what are the Trojans compared to as they are getting ready to leave Carthage | bees |
| Erebus | darkness |
| Hecate | underworld witch goddess |
| how does Dido die | sword |
| Iris | cuts Dido's hair |
| Sychaeus | Dido's first husband |
| novus hospes | new guest, what Dido calls Aeneas |
| Iulus | Ascanius |
| Saturnia | patronymic for June |
| regina | second word of Book IV, its topic |
| Apollo's island | Delos |
| Hymenaeus | minor god of marriage |
| Iarbas | African chief rejected by Dido |
| Fama | Rumor |
| Tellus | Earth, Rumor's mother |
| Gaetuli | African tribe |
| univira | a one-man woman |
| Tyrii | Carthaginians |
| Teucri | Trojans |
| Anna | soror unanima Didonis |
| manes | spirits of the dead |
| Aurora | goddess of the Dawn |
| Pygmalion | Dido's evil brother |
| Ammon | Jupiter (Iarbas's father) |
| pudor | shame |
