Schevill — Studies in Cervantes. 483 



of the Georgics/ and liow, when imprisoned by the Inquisition, he 

 called for his favorite poets, among them Yirgil, of whom he pos- 

 sessed numerous copies.- D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza has left an 

 Eleg'ia a la muerte de Dido,^ which is a free rendering of the close of 

 the fourth book of the Aeneid. The latter's influence is also apparent 

 in Herrera, Elegia xv, 'To love.'* Even Gongora makes use of Dido 

 in a characteristic way while speaking of the bee.^ Juan de Arguijo 

 has two sonnets, one A Dido y Eneas, and one A Dido.''' Quevedo 

 also indulged in a humorous parody of Dido's lament when forsaken 

 by Aeneas, siquis 7nihi parvulus aula luderet Aeneas (IV, v. 328)." 



^ Tickiior says "two of the Georgics of Virgil," History of Spanish Litera- 

 ture (London, 1863), Vol. II, p. 86; cf. Vol. II of "Escritores del siglo XVI" 

 ( Rivadeneyra ) , Ohras del maestro Fray de Leon, which contain but one, 

 and p. xiv of the introduction. 



- Cf. Ticknor, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 87 n. 



^ Cf . Ohras poeticas dc D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, printed for the 

 first time in Vol. XI of "Libros espaiioles raros 6 curiosos" (Madrid, 1877), 

 p. 95. There is also, if authentic, an epigrama a Dido, p. 432. 



* Cf . Poetas liricos de los siglos XVI y XVII (Rivadeneyra), Elegia xv, 

 p. 288: where 



Si no eres en las rocas engendrado 



Del alto yerto Caucaso espantoso, 



Y de la Armenia tigre alimentado, 



SerSs & mis tormentos piadoso, etc. (p. 289) 



recalls vs. 366-7 of Aeneid IV; the Armenia for Hircania as applied to 

 tigers has its source in the Eclogues, V, v. 29. 



'^ Cf. Poetas liricos, etc., op. cit., p. 472, col. 2 ; w^hat could be more 

 characteristic of Gongora than: 



". . . frondoso alcazar, no de aquella 

 Que sin corona vuela y sin espada, 

 Susurrante amazona. Dido alada, 

 De ejercito mas casto, de mas bella 

 RepUblica, ceuida en vez de muros, 

 De .cortezas; en esta pues Cartago 

 Eeina la abeja, oro brillando vago, etc." 



^ Cf. Poetas liricos, etc., op. cit., p. 392: "De la fenisa reina importunado" ; 

 p. 398: "La tirana codicia del hermano"; see also his sonnet pre axed 

 to Lope de Vega's Peregrine en su patria (1604), in which Lope's wanderer 

 is compared with both Ulysses and Aeneas, and Lope himself with Homer 

 and Virgil. 



' Cf. Ohras de Quevedo (Rivadeneyra), Vol. Ill, p. 137: "Si un Eneillas 

 viera, si un pimpollo, etc." 



