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©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
BOOK III.
ARGUMENT.
IN tbe winter after tbe overtbrow of Troy, Aeneas builds a fieet (1-8).
He sails witb a number of fellow-exiles in tbe spring or summer of tbe
second year, and spends tbe winter in Tbracc, wbere be begins to found
a city; but the sbade of Polydiirus warns bim to avoid the curset! land
(8-68). In tbe tbird year, he goes to Delos, and consults tbe oracle,
but, misinterpreting tbe response, stecrs for Creto instead of Italy (73-
120). III omens and a plague retard tbe building of his rising city;
but, warned by the gods, in the fifth year he directs his course to Italy
(121-191). He is wafted in a storm to the Slrophltdes, thence to Actium,
where he celebrates games in honor of Apollo (192-290). In tbe
sixtb year, be !nnds in Epirus, and Hnds it ruled over by nelenus, one
of the sons of Priam, to whom, after the death of Pyrrhus, the kingdom
bad fallen, and along with it Andromache, formerly the wife of nector.
ne is received with great kindness, and instructed by IIelenus in all tho
lllbors and dangers tbat yet await him on his voyage (291-505). Crossing
to the Italian shore, he coasts southwal'd, approaches the district of
Sicily near to Aetna, escapes tbe Cyclopes, and again stands out to Sell
(506-683). Avoiding Scylla and Cbarybdis, ho reaches Drepanum,
where his fULher Anchises dies; thence setting sail, he is driven to Carthage,
wbere be arrives in tbe summer of tbe seventh year, probably as
winter is drawing on (684-718).
1. Res Asiae, the kill[Jdono of Asia.
2. Visum (est) superis, ;1 seemed gO