After describing details of the unhealthy obsession Queen Dido has for Aeneas in his epic tale
The Aeneid, Virgil depicts the effect her "private" obsession has on her kingdom:
Towers, have built rose
No farther; men no longer trained in arms
Or toiled to make harbors and battlements
Impregnable. Projects were broken off,
Laid over, and the menacing huge walls
With cranes unmoving stood against the sky.
For Virgil, issues of personal morality have serious ramifications for a leader's ability to work for and uphold the public good.
