On its way to Italy, a storm sent by Hera (who had not forgotten the outrage she suffered at Mount Ida on the occasion of the Judgement of Paris), carried Aeneas' fleet to Libya, where there was a city Carthage, ruled by Queen Dido.

Aeneas impressing Queen Dido with war anecdotes and accounts on Trojan bravery and Achaean treachery.

This is part of the adventures that Aeneas related to Dido:

Looking for rest Aeneas and his crew crept to the shores of the Cyclopes, an unfriendly and anthropophagous race. When this 'fraternity of the Aetna' discovered the intruders, they ran towards the beach. But Aeneas and his comrades were already on their way.

Dido begged:

"I implore you, and by our union of hearts, by our marriage hardly begun, if I have ever helped you at all, if anything about me pleased you, be sad for our broken home, forgo your purpose, I beg you, unless it is too late for prayers of mine!" [Dido to Aeneas. Virgil, The Aeneid 4.315]

... but Aeneas, listening to higher calls, left her, and she killed herself.

That is why they chant:

"Aeneas caused her death and lent the blade,
Dido by her own hand in dust was laid." [Ovid, Heroides 8]

Here are Dares 2 and Entellus, who participated in the games held by Aeneas in Sicily. Dares 2 was defeated in a boxing match by Entellus [Vir.Aen.5.368ff.].

Vision of Aeneas at the Elysian Fields: his father shows him both past and future. Behind them is the Cumaean Sibyl [see also Underworld and Map of the Underworld].

A Trojan embassy comes with gifts before King Latinus of Latium. The newcomers offer alliance along with the relics from Troy. The king, remebering and oracle, offers the hand of his daughter Lavinia 2 to the absent Aeneas. But the king's wife Amata, entangled by Hera's designs, will oppose that marriage.

The old Arcadian Evander 2, now king of Pallantium on the banks of the river Tiber, embraces his son Pallas 6 as he departs to join Aeneas in his war against Turnus.

Euryalus 7 and Nisus 3, lovers and warriors in the army of Aeneas attacked by night the Rutulian camp and caused a great carnage, as the enemy was sleeping after heavy drinking. But on their return they were discovered by a cavalry force of three hundred men, and their commander Volcens killed Euryalus 7. Nisus 3 died after killing Volcens.

Challenged to fight a single combat, Pallas 6 hurls his spear at Turnus but misses, before Turnus' spear kills him. Having spoiled the corpse, Turnus takes Pallas 6 golden baldric (a fatal spoil; see below).

Camilla, a woman-warrior ally of Turnus, was killed in battle by Arruns 1, an Etruscan ally of Aeneas.

Final duel between Aeneas and Turnus. Turnus, defeated, asked for his life, and Aeneas considered to pardon him. But when he saw that Turnus was wearing the baldric of Pallas 6, he slew him.

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