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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Virgil

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Book XI

(Lines 1-444.)

Both sides have had enough of war. There are so many dead! Envoys from
Turnus' camp come seeking a truce to bury their dead at the very moment when
the Trojans are in the middle of the ceremony in honor of Pallas. Around the
bier made of oak twigs (the oak was sacred to Jupiter) and arbutus shoots (or
wild strawberry tree, famous for its shade) the Trojan women wail, their long
hair unbound as a sign of mourning. Even in death he is still beautiful, like
a violet that has been picked but has not yet wilted. Sorrowfully Aeneas
covers the body ...

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