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CONTENTS
BOOK VI. The cave of the Cumæan Sibyl. Her prophecy. The Burial of Misenus. Æneas finds the golden bough. The descent into Hades. The horrors at its door. The Rivers of Death. The unburied ghosts. Palinurus. Charon and his Stygian boat. Cerberus. The Fields of Sorrow. The Shade of Dido. The dead warriors. Deiphobus. The punishments of Tartarus. Elysium. The spirits of the blest. Æneas finds his father. Anchises shows the host of spirits yet unborn. Æneas sees the line of Roman conquerors from Romulus to Cæsar. The young Marcellus. The Gates of Sleep. 181
BOOK VII. Æneas lands at Tiber’s mouth. King Latinus warned by omens to give Lavinia to a foreign husband. Æneas sends envoys to Latinus’ Palace. Latinus promises his daughter. Juno calls Alecto from Hades. The Fury rouses Queen Amata and Turnus. Ascanius wounds Sylvia’s fawn. The rustics arm themselves for war. Juno opens the Gates of Janus. The neighboring warriors muster in Turnus’ cause; Camilla ends the line. 221
BOOK VIII. Turnus sends envoys to Diomed. Father Tiber speaks to Æneas in a dream. The white sow and her thirty young. Æneas visits King Evander on the Palatine. The tale of Hercules and Cacus. Evander shows Æneas the sacred site of Rome. Venus asks Vulcan’s aid. The Cyclops of Ætna forge Æneas’ arms. Evander sends his son Pallas to the war. Venus gives Æneas his shield on which is pictured the glories of Rome, the Battle of Actium, the Triumph of Augustus. 257
BOOK IX. Turnus fires the Trojan ships. They are changed to sea-nymphs. The siege. Nisus and Euryalus. The exploits of Turnus. Ascanius’ arrow. Two giants, Pandarus, and Bitias, defend the gates. Turnus strikes them down and enters. He meets the Trojans single-handed. Driven back to the Tiber, he leaps in full-armed and escapes. 291
BOOK X. Council of the Gods. Venus and Juno contend. Jove commands the Gods to be impartial. Æneas returns with his fleet. The ships described. Æneas and Turnus take the field. The tale of the slain. The death of Pallas. Turnus by Juno’s stratagem withdrawn from the field. Mezentius after much slaughter is wounded by Æneas. Lausus is killed defending his father. Mezentius and his horse. Death of Mezentius. 329
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