Yet an interval of upwards of a year, apparently, separates the two occasions; already by 4. 193–4 t n e winter is well advanced; at 5. 46 Aeneas tells his men that exactly a year has elapsed since Anchises' death—the last event narrated in Book 3. Dido's words, therefore, and those of the false Beroe are commonly held to be irreconcilable.