[You left your wife] dead and abandoned . . . You told me that, and I should have known that you were only giving me fair notice.
Ovid, Heroides
Dido to Aeneas
I should have known.
Ovid wrote Heroides, letters from unhappy women to literary heroes that mistreated them in some way, in the first century BC.
Dido’s unfavorable take on Aeneas’ wife Creusa’s demise is understandable. I should have known. You told me with your actions and your own words. Knowledge is mutable and so is its value.
What good does Dido’s knowledge do for her after the fact?
Roger Valdez 