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Vergil, Aeneis, 12.604-12.606


Quam cladem miserae postquam accepere LatinaeAntheus and Mnestheus moved, and all the host


filia prima manu flavos Lavinia crinisfrom the forsaken fortress poured. The plain


et roseas laniata genas, tum cetera circumwas darkened with their dust; the startled earth


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1. Homer, Iliad, 4.141, 24.776 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

4.141. /and forthwith the dark blood flowed from the wound.As when a woman staineth ivory with scarlet, some woman of Maeonia or Caria, to make a cheek-piece for horses, and it lieth in a treasure-chamber, though many horsemen pray to wear it; but it lieth there as a king's treasure 24.776. /that is gentle to me or kind; but all men shudder at me.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 24.483, 24.486 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.651-1.663, 13.517 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Vergil, Aeneis, 4.160-4.172, 4.590, 4.666-4.667, 5.613-5.615, 7.50, 7.53-7.55, 7.71-7.76, 7.318, 7.362, 7.385-7.386, 7.389-7.391, 7.393, 9.481-9.497, 11.477-11.478, 11.480, 12.64-12.65, 12.67, 12.69, 12.138-12.160, 12.595-12.603, 12.605-12.611, 12.803-12.806, 12.821-12.822, 12.843-12.886 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.160. a common city with the sons of Tyre 4.161. with mingling blood and sworn, perpetual peace. 4.162. His wife thou art; it is thy rightful due 4.163. to plead to know his mind. Go, ask him, then! 4.164. For humbly I obey!” With instant word 4.165. Juno the Queen replied: “Leave that to me! 4.166. But in what wise our urgent task and grave 4.167. may soon be sped, I will in brief unfold 4.168. to thine attending ear. A royal hunt 4.169. in sylvan shades unhappy Dido gives 4.170. for her Aeneas, when to-morrow's dawn 4.171. uplifts its earliest ray and Titan's beam 4.172. hall first unveil the world. But I will pour 4.590. my sorrow asks thee, Anna! Since of thee 4.666. “I know a way—O, wish thy sister joy!— 4.667. to bring him back to Iove, or set me free. 5.613. the helmet and the sword—but left behind 5.614. Entellus' prize of victory, the bull. 5.615. He, then, elate and glorying, spoke forth: 7.50. the primal conflict sprang, O goddess, breathe 7.53. thrust forth to perish, when Etruria's host 7.54. and all Hesperia gathered to the fray. 7.55. Events of grander march impel my song 7.71. but comeliest in all their princely throng 7.72. came Turnus, of a line of mighty sires. 7.73. Him the queen mother chiefly loved, and yearned 7.74. to call him soon her son. But omens dire 7.75. and menaces from Heaven withstood her will. 7.76. A laurel-tree grew in the royal close 7.318. Ilioneus. But King Latinus gazed 7.362. the famous kind which guileful Circe bred 7.385. But nay! Though flung forth from their native land 7.386. I o'er the waves, with enmity unstayed 7.389. with ocean's power and heaven's. But what availed 7.390. Syrtes, or Scylla, or Charybdis' waves? 7.391. The Trojans are in Tiber ; and abide 7.393. afe from the seas and me! Mars once had power 9.481. the youth thrust home his sword, then drew it back 9.482. death-dripping, while the bursting purple stream 9.483. of life outflowed, with mingling blood and wine. 9.484. Then, flushed with stealthy slaughter, he crept near 9.485. the followers of Messapus, where he saw 9.486. their camp-fire dying down, and tethered steeds 9.487. upon the meadow feeding. Nisus then 9.488. knew the hot lust of slaughter had swept on 9.489. too far, and cried, “Hold off! For, lo 9.490. the monitory dawn is nigh. Revenge 9.491. has fed us to the full. We have achieved 9.492. clean passage through the foe.” Full many a prize 9.493. was left untaken: princely suits of mail 9.494. enwrought with silver pure, huge drinking-bowls 9.495. and broideries fair. Yet grasped Euryalus 9.496. the blazonry at Rhamnes' corselet hung 9.497. and belt adorned with gold: which were a gift 11.477. fling thy poor countrymen in danger's way 11.478. O chief and fountain of all Latium 's pain? 11.480. for peace, O Turnus! and, not less than peace 12.138. the hour is come! Once mighty Actor's hand 12.139. but now the hand of Turnus is thy lord. 12.140. Grant me to strike that carcase to the ground 12.141. and with strong hand the corselet rip and rend 12.142. from off that Phrygian eunuch: let the dust 12.143. befoul those tresses, tricked to curl so fine 12.144. with singeing steel and sleeked with odorous oil.” 12.145. Such frenzy goads him: his impassioned brow 12.146. is all on flame, the wild eyes flash with fire. 12.147. Thus, bellowing loud before the fearful fray 12.148. ome huge bull proves the fury of his horns 12.149. pushing against a tree-trunk; his swift thrusts 12.150. would tear the winds in pieces; while his hoofs 12.152. That self-same day with aspect terrible 12.153. Aeneas girt him in the wondrous arms 12.154. his mother gave; made sharp his martial steel 12.155. and roused his heart to ire; though glad was he 12.156. to seal such truce and end the general war. 12.157. Then he spoke comfort to his friends; and soothed 12.158. Iulus' fear, unfolding Heaven's intent; 12.159. but on Latinus bade his heralds lay 12.595. defend thee through the war and lead thee on 12.596. to high rewards. Thou also play the man! 12.597. And when thy riper vigor soon shall bloom 12.598. forget not in thy heart to ponder well 12.599. the story of our line. Heed honor's call 12.601. After such farewell word, he from the gates 12.602. in mighty stature strode, and swung on high 12.603. his giant spear. With him in serried line 12.605. from the forsaken fortress poured. The plain 12.606. was darkened with their dust; the startled earth 12.607. hook where their footing fell. From distant hill 12.608. Turnus beheld them coming, and the eyes 12.609. of all Ausonia saw: a chill of fear 12.610. hot through each soldier's marrow; in their van 12.611. Juturna knew full well the dreadful sound 12.804. But now a new adversity befell 12.805. the weary Latins, which with common woe 12.806. hook the whole city to its heart. The Queen 12.821. her rose-red cheek and hyacinthine hair. 12.822. Then all her company of women shrieked 12.843. the sons of Troy . Here lies the nearest way 12.844. to speedy triumph. There be other swords 12.845. to keep yon city safe. Aeneas now 12.846. torms against Italy in active war; 12.847. we also on this Trojan host may hurl 12.848. grim havoc. Nor shalt thou the strife give o'er 12.849. in glory second, nor in tale of slain.” 12.850. Turnus replied, “O sister, Iong ago 12.851. I knew thee what thou wert, when guilefully 12.852. thou didst confound their treaty, and enlist 12.853. thy whole heart in this war. No Ionger now 12.854. thy craft divine deceives me. But what god 12.855. compelled thee, from Olympus fallen so far 12.856. to bear these cruel burdens? Wouldst thou see 12.857. thy wretched brother slaughtered? For what else 12.858. is in my power? What flattering hazard still 12.859. holds forth deliverance? My own eyes have seen 12.860. Murranus (more than any now on earth 12.861. my chosen friend) who, calling on my name 12.862. died like a hero by a hero's sword. 12.863. Ill-fated Ufens fell, enduring not 12.864. to Iook upon my shame; the Teucrians 12.865. divide his arms for spoil and keep his bones. 12.866. Shall I stand tamely, till my hearth and home 12.867. are levelled with the ground? For this would be 12.868. the only blow not fallen. Shall my sword 12.869. not give the lie to Drances' insolence? 12.870. Shall I take flight and let my country see 12.871. her Turnus renegade? Is death a thing 12.872. o much to weep for? O propitious dead 12.873. O spirits of the dark, receive and bless 12.874. me whom yon gods of light have cast away! 12.875. Sacred and guiltless shall my soul descend 12.876. to join your company; I have not been 12.878. Scarce had he said, when through the foeman's line 12.879. Saces dashed forth upon a foaming steed 12.880. his face gashed by an arrow. He cried loud 12.881. on Turnus' name: “O Turnus, but in thee 12.882. our last hope lies. Have pity on the woe 12.883. of all thy friends and kin! Aeneas hurls 12.884. his thunderbolt of war, and menaces 12.885. to crush the strongholds of all Italy 12.886. and lay them low; already where we dwell


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achilles Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
aeneas, reader Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
aeneas Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
amata Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
analogues Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 175
antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
athena Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
conflation (of episodes or characters) Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 175
dido Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
funerals Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
galliambics Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 175
hecuba Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
helen Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
homer, gender and lament Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
homer, place of in epic poetry Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
juno, goddess of marriage Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
juno Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
jupiter, as odyssean zeus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
jupiter Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
juturna Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
latium Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
lavinia, characteristics, role in aeneid Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 175
lavinia, characteristics Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 163
lyric (early greek), and virgins Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 163
marriage, of lavinia Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
marriage Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
narrators, aeneid Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
nymphs Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
odysseus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
ovid Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
portents' Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 175
protest Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
reconciliation Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
romulus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
sex Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
styx Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
suicide Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
suitors Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
trojans Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
turnus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, comic Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, iliadic Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, tragic Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
virgil Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 228
war, warfare Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
zeus, in the odyssey Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284
zeus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 284