on the way; but after numerous perils by sea and land, AEneas and his
son Asca'nius reached Italy. Here Latinus, the reigning king, received
the exiles hospitably, and promised his daughter Lavin'ia in marriage
to AEneas; but she had been already betrothed by her mother to prince
Turnus, son of Daunus, king of Ru'tuli, and Turnus would not forego
his claim. Latinus, in this dilemma, said the rivals must settle
the dispute by an appeal to arms. Turnus being slain, AEneas married
Lavinia, and ere long succeeded his father-in-law on the throne.

Book I. The escape from Troy; AEneas and his son, driven by a tempest
on the shores of Carthage, are hospitably entertained by queen Dido.

II. AEneas tells Dido the tale of the wooden horse, the burning of
Troy, and his flight with his father, wife, and son. The wife was lost
and died.

III. The narrative continued. The perils he met with on the way, and
the death of his father.

IV. Dido falls in love with AEneas; but he steals away from Carthage,
and Dido, on a funeral pyre, puts an end to her life.

V. AEneas reaches Sicily, and celebrates there the games in honor of
Anchises. This book corresponds to the _Iliad_, xxiii.

VI. AEneas visits the infernal regions. This book corresponds to
_Odyssey_, xi.

VII. Latinus king of Italy entertains AEneas, and promises to him
Lavinia (his daughter) in marriage, but prince Turnus had been already
betrothed to her by the mother, and raises an army to resist AEneas.

VIII. Preparations on both sides for a general war.

IX. Turnus, during the absence of AEneas, fires the ships and assaults
the camp. The episode of Nisus and Eury'alus.

X. The war between Turnus and AEneas. Episode of Mezentius and Lausus.

XI. The battle continued.

XII. Turnus challenges AEneas to single combat, and is killed.

N.B.--1. The story of Sinon and taking of Troy is borrowed from
Pisander, as Macrobius informs us.

2. The loves of Dido and AEneas are copied from those of Medea and
Jason, in Apollonius.

3. The story of the wooden horse and the burning of Troy are from
Arcti'nus of Miletus.

AE'OLUS, god of the winds, which he keeps imprisoned in a cave in
the AEolian Islands, and lets free as he wishes or as the over-gods
command.

Was I for this nigh wrecked upon the sea,
And twice by awkward wind from England's bank
Drove back again unto my native clime?...
Yet Aeolus would not be a murderer,
But left that hateful office unto th