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Virgil's and account
Likewise important in Virgil's day was the account of Rome's founding in Cato the Elder's Origines.
Turnus was killed, and Virgil's account ends abruptly.
Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.
Virgil's account acts as a sequel to Homer's, with the fate of Polyphemus as a blind cyclops after the escape of Odysseus and his crew.
In Virgil's Aeneid, Deiphobus gives an account of Helen's treacherous stance: when the Trojan Horse was admitted into the city, she feigned Bacchic rites, leading a chorus of Trojan women, and, holding a torch among them, she signaled to the Greeks from the city's central tower.
In Colin Clouts Come Home Again, Spenser speaks of Fraunce as Corydon, on account of his translations of Virgil's second eclogue.
The most famous account of these events is in Virgil's Aeneid ( See the Aeneid quotation at the entry Laocoön ), but this very probably dates from after the sculpture was made.
( This story bears striking resemblance to Virgil's account of Dido's founding of Carthage.
Seneca's account that " Virgil ... aimed, not to teach the farmer, but to please the reader ," underlines that Virgil's poetic and philosophic themes were abounding in his hexameters ( Sen., Moral Letter 86. 15 ).

Virgil's and Dido's
Ovid then tells that Anna Perenna was the same Anna who appears in Virgil's Aeneid as Dido's sister and that after Dido's death, Carthage was attacked by the Numidians and Anna was forced to flee.
In Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.

Virgil's and founding
Virgil's Aeneid ( XII: 391, 402 ) relates that Iapyx was Aeneas's healer during the Trojan War and then escaped to Italy after the war, founding Apulia.

Virgil's and Carthage
Carthage was the Roman Republic's greatest rival and enemy, and Virgil's Dido in part symbolises this.
According to Virgil's Aeneid and other ancient sources, the legendary Queen Dido was a Phoenician from Asia Minor who sailed to North Africa and founded the city of Carthage.
Wittig has compared aspects of the story to that of Dido, Queen of Carthage and Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.

Virgil's and when
Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.
Its motto uno avulso non deficit alter ( when one is torn away another succeeds ) is from the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid and is relevant first in the more overarching sense of having replaced the Monks of Medmenham ; then in establishing the continuity of the society through a process of constant renewal of its graduate and undergraduate members.
In Virgil's Aeneid, Hera had disguised herself as an old woman, whom Jason was helping across the river when he lost his sandal.
By the time of Virgil's Georgics, the myth has Aristaeus chasing Eurydice when she was bitten by a serpent and died.
His death is also alluded to in Virgil's Aeneid, when Aeneas encounters a tree that bleeds while on his quest to found a new home for the Trojan people.
As an innocuous example: when Mussolini's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of Virgil's Aeneid, only the name Dido did not appear.
Ekphrasis may be encountered as early as the days of Aphthonius ' Progymnasmata, his textbook of style, in Virgil's Aeneid when he describes what Aeneas sees engraved on the doors of Carthage's temple of Juno, or Homer's going to great lengths in the Iliad, Book 18, describing the Shield of Achilles, exactly how Hephaestus made it as well as its completed shape.
He was just starting to get back on his feet when on Saturday, March 18, 1882, Virgil's younger brother Morgan Earp was killed in another ambush.
As a boy his father died and the family lost land as part of a confiscation, probably the same one which reduced Virgil's estates when Octavian alloted lands to his veterans in 41 BC.
Virgil is chased by The Hood in a tunnel after Thunderbird 2 landed, and as they emerge from the tunnel into the sunlight Virgil's glasses magically darken and steers round a mountain and when The Hood emerges into the sunlight he gets blinded and dazzled by the sunlight and crashes into the mountain.
In Book XII Virgil's Aeneid, Venus heals the wounded Aeneas with a stalk of " dittany from Cretan Ida ", a plant " with downy leaves and scarlet flower " that goats eat when stuck with arrows.
The Catholic Colleges associated with GYC are: Mount Carmel College, Sandy Bay ; St Virgil's College, Austins Ferry ; Dominic College, Glenorchy ; MacKillop Catholic College, Mornington ; Sacred Heart College, New Town ; St James Catholic College, Cygnet ; St Aloysius Catholic College, Kingston will become an associated college in the near future when its first students are ready for senior secondary education in 2013.
Virgil's text ends when Aeneas defeats Turnus in single combat and therefore gains the right to marry Lavinia.
The simple old poet, with his adoration of Greek ( when a thing pleased him greatly he was wont to talk of it as " Greek Verse "), his delight in journeys and sight-seeing, his dislike for literary talk save with intimates and equals, his vanities and vengeances, his pride in the memory of favours bestowed on him by popes and princes, his infinita maraviglia over Virgil's versification and metaphor, his fondness for masculine rhymes and blank verse, his quiet Christianity, is a figure deserving perhaps of more study than is likely to be bestowed on that " new world " of art which it was his glory to fancy his own, by discovery and by conquest.

Virgil's and Dido
The story of Dido and Aeneas derives from the original source in Virgil's epic the Aeneid.
* Four talks by scholars on aspects of the Aeneid ( including Virgil's relationship to Roman history, the Rome of Caesar Augustus, the challenges of translating Latin poetry, and Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ), delivered at the Maine Humanities Council's Winter Weekend program.
Quint argues that Cleopatra ( not Antony ) fulfils Virgil's Dido archetype ; " woman is subordinated as is generally the case in The Aeneid, excluded from power and the process of Empire-building: this exclusion is evident in the poem's fiction where Creusa disappears and Dido is abandoned ... woman's place or displacement is therefore in the East, and epic features a series of oriental heroines whose seductions are potentially more perilous than Eastern arms ", i. e., Cleopatra.
This scene is taken from Virgil's Aeneid, where Dido falls in love with, only to be left by, the Trojan hero Aeneas.
Even though no Rome existed in her day, Virgil's Dido curses the future progeny of the Trojans.
She is briefly mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid: Aeneas gives her scepter to Dido.
Perhaps Juno's most prominent appearance in Roman literature is as the primary antagonistic force in Virgil's Aeneid, where she is depicted as a cruel and savage goddess intent upon supporting first Dido and then Turnus and the Rutulians against Aeneas ' attempt to found a new Troy in Italy.

Virgil's and her
Ruda initially believes Bubba is responsible, but after visiting her son, Tyrell in jail ( where he confesses the accident that crippled him was his fault and not Virgil's ), her memory of the incident clears and Bubba is exonerated.
After the death of her husband, Allie ( Alvira " Allie " Packingham Sullivan Earp ) moved back to California to be near Virgil's family, where she lived for 42 years.
At the end of the fourth season, Sharon continues to be in the dark about her brother's superhero secret, though in the final episode " Power Outage ," she becomes suspicious once again of Virgil's behavior until their father interrupts them.
She is an active participant and the driving force of the school's newspaper. The animated Frieda is made as only a supporting character, as opposed to her comic counterpart, in which she plays Gear's role as Virgil's best friend / confidant / and unofficial sidekick to his Static persona.
Concerned about his military career, Jimmy initially tells Teri that she should not have come and refuses to tell her anymore about Virgil's fate.
The character of Clorinda is inspired in part by Virgil's Camilla and by Bradamante in Ariosto ; the circumstances of her birth ( a Caucasian girl born to African parents ) are modeled on the lead character ( Chariclea ) from the ancient Greek novel by Heliodorus of Emesa.

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