[The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Aeneid of Virgil BOOK TWELVE 40/122
Then terribly AEneas' wrath upboils, His fierce eyes fixt upon the sign of woe. "Shalt _thou_ go hence, and with the loved one's spoils? 'Tis Pallas--Pallas deals the deadly blow. And claims this victim for his ghost below." He spake, and mad with fury, as he said, Drove the keen falchion through his prostrate foe. The stalwart limbs grew stiff with cold and dead, And, groaning, to the shades the scornful spirit fled. NOTES TO BOOK ONE I.'The Lavinian shore,' the coast of Italy near Lavinium, an old town in Latium.
See also stanzas xxxv.
and xxxvi. III.
Carthage was a Phoenician colony, and Tyre was the leading Phoenician city. Samos was an island in the Archipelago near the coast of Asia Minor. There was a famous temple on it, dedicated to Juno, who was supposed to take a special interest in the island. V.'The choice of Paris' refers to the Greek story that once when the gods were feasting, 'Discord' threw a golden apple on the table as a prize for the fairest.
Juno, Minerva and Venus each claimed it, but the Trojan prince Paris, who was made judge, gave it to Venus. _Ganymede_ was a beautiful Trojan boy who was carried off to Olympus to be Jove's cup-bearer. VI.
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