December 4th The Queen Weds a Poor Stranger Vergil (70 B.C.–19 B.C.). Æneid. Vol. 13, pp. 152-162 of The Harvard Classics Æneas and Dido, world-famous lovers, while hunting in the forest, were trapped in a cave by a furious storm. There the marriage between the proud African queen and the homeless wanderer was completed.