ARGUMENT AEneas, unaware of Dido's fate, sails away to Acestes in Sicily, and prepares funeral games against the anniversary of Anchises' death (1-90).

Offerings are paid to the spirit of Anchises.

Sicilians and Trojans assemble for the first contest, a boat race (91-140), which is described at length.

Cloanthus, ancestor of the Cluentii, wins with the "Scylla" (141-342).

The foot-race is next narrated.
Euryalus, by his friend's cunning, gains the first prize, and the scene shifts (343-441) to the ring, in which Dares is defeated by the veteran Entellus, who fells the ox, his prize, as an offering to his master Eryx (442-594).