AEneas regains his home.

Anchises obstinately refuses to flee, until a halo is seen about the head of Ascanius (757-828), whereupon he accepts the omen and yields.

The escape .-- In a sudden panic Creusa is lost (829-900).

AEneas, at peril of his life, is seeking her throughout the city, when her wraith appears and bids him away.

"She is dead in Troytown: in Italy empire awaits him." She vanishes: day dawns: and AEneas, with Anchises and the surviving Trojans, flees to the hills (901-972).
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