by Virgil
Talia dicentem iamdudum aversa tuetur
Dido and Aeneas: the confrontation
Aeneid Book 4, lines 362 - 393
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Aeneid Book 4, lines 393 - 411
The Trojans prepare to set sail from Carthage
Aeneid Book 4, lines 685 - 705
Dido’s release
Aeneid Book 5, lines 680 - 699
Fire strikes Aeneas’s fleet
Aeneid Book 5, lines 719 - 740
Anchises’s ghost invites Aeneas to visit the underworld
Aeneid Book 5, lines 833 - 861 and 867-871
Palinurus the helmsman is lost
Aeneid Book 6, lines 77 - 101
The Sibyl’s Prophecy
Aeneid Book 6, lines 124 - 155
Aeneas learns the way to the underworld
Aeneid Book 6, lines 236 - 268
The journey to Hades begins
by Virgil
His actis propere exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae
Aeneas and the Sybil take the road for the underworld