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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Virgil

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Book X

(Lines 1-117.)

Meanwhile on Olympus, Jupiter becomes very upset at the continued
fighting and decides to call a council of the gods as he had commanded that
the Trojans and Rutulians should be friends. Unfortunately, like so many
councils, it accomplishes little more than giving the rival parties a chance
to quarrel in public. Venus naturally blames the war on Turnus, broadly
hinting that Jupiter's wife has had a great deal to do with it. Still, if her
grandson Ascanius is spared, she will be satisfied. Juno retorts that it isn't
her fault if Aeneas ...

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