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Achates was first to speak, saying to Aeneas: ‘Son of the goddess, what intention springs to your mind? You see all’s safe, the fleet and our friends have been restored to us. Only one is missing, whom we saw plunged in the waves: all else is in accord with your mother’s words.’ BkI:586-612 Aeneas Makes Himself Known
Throughout the Aeneid Vergil sets his Roman theme in tension with the heroic world of Homer; Aeneas has to leave the one world and enter the other (Williams). primus: “first,” not here in the sense of “the first who,” but “at the first,” “in the beginning” (Frieze).
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Love obeys his dear mother’s words, lays by his wings, and walks joyously with the step of Iulus. But Venus pours over the limbs of Ascanius the dew of gentle repose and, fondling him in her bosom, uplifts him with divine power to Idalia’s high groves, where soft marjoram enwraps him in flowers and the breath of its sweet shade.
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The Aeneid is deeply respectful of love – a respect shading into fear. That is because it recognizes that love is an extremely powerful, and unpredictable, force. From the very first moments when Dido becomes infatuated with Aeneas, the poet keeps reminding us that her love will be her destruction.
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, Book 1, line 1. book: card: Arms and the man I sing, who first made way, predestined exile, from the Trojan shore. to Italy, the blest Lavinian strand. Smitten of storms he was on land and sea. by violence of Heaven, to satisfy. stern Juno's sleepless wrath; and much in war.
