Aeneid Book 10. lines 885 - 908
King Mezentius meets his match
desine, nam venio moriturus et haec tibi porto
King Mezentius follows his son to death
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Aeneid Book 10. lines 885 - 908
desine, nam venio moriturus et haec tibi porto
King Mezentius follows his son to death
Aeneid Book 11, lines 24 - 58
"Ite,"ait "egregias animas, quae sanguine nobis"
Mourning for Pallasand the Trojan dead
Aeneid Book 11, lines 182 - 202
Aurora interea miseris mortalibus almam
The Trojan dead are given burial
Aeneid Book 11, lines 539 - 566
Pulsus ob invidiam regno virisque superbas
The childhood of Camilla, the warrior-Queen
Aeneid Book 12, lines 161 - 194
Interea reges ingenti mole Latinus
Aeneas's oath for the future
Aeneid Book 12, lines 311 - 340
At pius Aeneas dextram tendebat inermem
A stray arrow catches Aeneas
Aeneid Book 12, lines 791 - 807 and 818 - 842
Iunonem interea rex omnipotentis Olympi
Juno finally relinquishes her anger against Aeneas and the Trojans
Aeneid Book 12, lines 919 - 952
Cunctanti telum Aeneas fatale coruscat
Virgil's great epic concludes with Turnus's death
De Rerum Natura, lines 1.44 - 1.48 and 3.894 - 911
omnis enim per se divum natura necessest
Lucretius offers the rational view of grief and fear