The sun had set, night was falling, and again the words of the Christian preacher recurred to her mind: "The fullness of the time is come." To her and hers a portion of life had come to an end, and a new one must grow out of it.

Should the free-born race of Heron perish in captivity and death?
The evening star blazed out on the distant horizon, seeming to her as a sign from the gods; and she told herself that it must be her part, as the last of the family who remained free, to guard the others from destruction in this new life.
The heavens were soon blazing with stars.

The banquet in Seleukus's house, at which Caesar was to appear, would begin in an hour.
Irresolution and delay would ruin all; so she drew herself up resolutely and called to Argutis, who had watched her with faithful sympathy: "Take my father's blue cloak, Argutis, to make you more dignified; and disguise yourself, for you must escort me, and we may be followed.

You, Dido, come and help me.

Take my new dress, that I wore at the Feast of Adonis, out of my trunk; and with it you will see my mother's blue fillet with the gems.