Once across the river Styx, Aeneas is introduced to the next groups of spirits – those stuck, like the others, in an endless, monotonous state of suffering. In these “Fields of Mourning” time seems to have stopped. Those who suffer here suffer from the same wound and with the same intensity that they did at the moment of their death or injury. As such, the death moment seems to have frozen time, forcing these spirits to replay they agonies forever. “Not even in death,” we are told, “do their torments leave them, ever.” In both a physical and an emotional sense, the wounds of these inhabitants of the Fields of Mourning remain as fresh as when they were first administered. Here, Aeneas runs into the lover he abandoned on his voyage, Dido, the Queen of Carthage. Virgil introduces her with the following line, calling our attention to the frozen nature of her experience of time. “And wandering there among them,” he writes, “wound still fresh, Phonenian Dido drifted along the endless woods.” Aeneas, of course, has gone through a whole range of emotions and thoughts since leaving Carthage and abandoning Dido to her fate. He has been able to process the events and now feels emotions of regret and remorse along with a recognition that the events were decreed from on high. Dido, on the other hand, is still filled with the exact same emotions she experienced during the rupture. This gap between their subjective perspectives proves impossible to overcome – the structures of time in this part of the underworld make it so. Nothing here is washed away with the passing of time. “Aeneas, with such appeals, with welling tears, tried to soothe her rage, her wild fiery glance.”