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The Aeneid of Virgil

BOOK TWELVE
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The story was that Acestes was the son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and Egesta, a Trojan maiden.
XI.

The myrtle was sacred to Venus.

Helymus was the supposed founder of the Elymi, a Sicilian tribe.

He was a Trojan who had migrated to Sicily from Troy.
XVI.-XVII.

The _gens Memmia_ and the _gens Sergia_ were two distinguished Roman families who traced their descent from Trojans.
The only member of the family of Cluentius we know much about is the disreputable person on whose behalf Cicero made a well-known speech.
XXVI.


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