![]() When he comes to the place appointed for the general rendezvouze, he finds a great confluence of people, but misses his wife whose ghost afterwards appears to him, and tells him the land which was design’d for him.Īll were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: “Great queen, what you command me to relate Renews the sad remembrance of our fate: An empire from its old foundations rent, And ev’ry woe the Trojans underwent A peopled city made a desart place All that I saw, and part of which I was: Not ev’n the hardest of our foes could hear, Nor stern Ulysses tell without a tear. In order to this, he carries off his father on his shoulders, and leads his little son by the hand, his wife following him behind. At last, having been before advis’d by Hector’s ghost, and now by the appearance of his mother Venus, he is prevail’d upon to leave the town, and settle his household gods in another country. ![]() He declares the fix’d resolution he had taken not to survive the ruins of his country, and the various adventures he met with in the defense of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Æneas relates how the city of Troy was taken, after a ten years’ siege, by the treachery of Sinon, and the stratagem of a wooden horse. ![]()
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