Dido's suicide (Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes, Bnf Fr12420, f61v)

In Boccaccio's version of Dido's story, Dido does not commit suicide after Aeneas' departure, and is therefore not depicted facing the Trojan ship leaving Carthage. Forced to marry an African king, she refuses to do so out of loyalty to her late husband, and commits suicide in front of the Carthaginians. One of them points at her, while the other pulls out his hair. The city is bounded by a bull's strip: by this ruse, Dido, who had been granted the surface area of a bull's skin to found her city, had been able to appropriate sufficient territory.

The story of the thong, which is very briefly mentioned by Virgil (three lines), is taken up by Justin, Philippics, XVIII, 4-5, and appears in the Eneas (in the LP version, Lettres gothiques, v. 278-289).