CHAPTER XIII
FOUNDATIONS OF CARTHAGE
(From Anna’s memoirs)
Asmunet stayed with us another two weeks while our ships prepared for the trip to Egypt. Before our guide left, Dido met with him in private and he went home carrying a heavy wooden chest. Iarbas remained silent. Asmunet learned from his relatives that the chief had accepted Dido’s clever interpretation of his words and still harbored hopes that he might yet persuade her to accept his offer of marriage.
Our first project was to build a temple to Astarte beside the beautiful glade at the top of the hill. Melampus was given two ships and established a quarry at the peninsula on the northern tip of the gulf. From there he brought back blocks to build the temple, the first stone edifice in our new city.
Plans were made for a mole
