“Huic coniunx Sychaeus erat, ditissimus agri 1.343-44
Phoenicum, et magno miserae dilectus amore,”

Here the connection rests more upon alliterative similarity than story content, but we may note that Dido is already wretched (miserae) upon her first introduction to us. It is worth remembering that our narrator of the Phoenician flashback is Venus, who is in some measure the cause of Dido’s later misfortunes.