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at vero Aeneas aspectu obmutuit amens

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Elision

Obmutuit -> hammer blow

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arrectaequae horrore comae et cox faucibus haesit.

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horrore -> rolled r’s represent trembling

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ardet abire fuga dulcesque relinquere terras

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ardet abire -> assonance creates grandeur

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attonitus tanto monitu imperioque deorum

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attonitus tanto -> dentals show harsh nature of the task

elision for emphasis

imperioque deorum -> assonance shows awe of gods

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heu quid agat?

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Rhetorical question and direct address

Creates sympathy

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quo nunc reginam ambire furentem audeat adfatu?

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Tricolon - crescendo - catches the ear

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quae prima exordia sumat?

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pleonasm -> emphasises how overwhelmed he is

Rhythm disrupted by elisions

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atquae animum nunc huc celerem, nunc divisit illuc

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Repetition of harsh c sounds represents conflicting thoughts and the harsh nature of the situation

Elision adds to the franticness and adds pace- blurring the words

Repetition shows confusion and urgency

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in partesque rapit varias perque omnia versat

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Varias -> vivid description

Scattered word order represents scattered thoughts

Elision emphasises omnia

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haec alternati potior sententia visa est:

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Alternati -> word choice shows conflict

Aeneas is not in the nominative -> reflecting how he is not in control and alluding to the orders of the gods

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at regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?) praesensit

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at -> tone change to negative

Direct address, philosophical part shows aeneas’ foolishness

praesensit -> enjambement emphasises Dido’s intuition and sensitivity

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motusque excepit prima futuros omnia tuta timens.

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Elision emphasises the speed of her discovery

Futuros delayed

Tuta timens -> dentals represents worry

Caesura -> uncertainty

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eadem impia Fama furenti detulit armari classem cursumque parari.

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Fama -> rumour is personified as a goddess- emphasises paranoia

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saevit inops animi, totamque incensa o’er urbem bacchatur,

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Caesura

Bacchatur imagery -> Dionysus, animal sacrifice, blood thirsty, frenzied trance

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ubi audito stimulant trieterica Baccho orgia

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orgia -> indicates anger, excessive passion

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dixerat. ille Iovis monitis immota tenebat lumina;

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caesura -> pregnant pause. Finality

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et obnixus curam sub corde premebat.

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promotion of curam -> shows power of his emotions

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tandem pauca refert:

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Defensive, careful

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“ ego te, quae plurima fando enumerare vales,

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Promotion of ‘ego’ indicates his defensiveness

‘Ego te’ he still thinks of them together
(Promotion of te shows he is thinking of her)

Plurima -> superlative, complementary
(Also promoted)

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numquam, regina, negabo promeritam

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Regina promotion -> respect

Enjambement shows gratuity

Deferring promeritam?

Alliteration of ‘m’ -> trembling

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nec me meminisse pigebat Elissae

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Alliteration of m -> trembling emotions

Assonance -> urgent insistence

pigebit future tense -> he sees a future without her

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dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.

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Repetion of dum -> forceful dentals, insistence

Repetion of m sounds -> trembling emotions

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23
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pro re pauca loquar.

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Legalese -> cold, impersonal

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neque hanc abscondere furto speravi (ne finge) fugam,

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Repetion of negatives -> emphasises negative situation and Aeneas’ defensiveness

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nec coniugis umquam pratendi taedas, aut haec in foedera veni

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nec, aut -> defensive tone

umquam -> high impact position

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me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam auspiciis, et sponte mea componere curas

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Repetition of personal pronouns -> selfish

meis -> promotors, suggests he has no control and emphasises frustration

repeated c sounds are guttural

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urbem Troianam primum ducelsque meorum reliquias colerem

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primum -> shows his priorities

dulcesque -> promotion shows patriotism

more personal pronouns

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Priami tecta alta manerent, et recidiva manu posuissem Pergama victis

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Elisions emphasises Alta -> fond memories

Recidiva -> promoted for pride ; emotive

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sed nunc Italiam Magnam Gryneus Apollo, Italiam Lyciae iussere capessere sortes:

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magnam -> shows misplaced hope/optimism

Italiam -> rhetorical repetition

Sibilance -> pleading

Assonance -> pleading

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30
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hic amor, haec patria est. si te Carthaginis arces, Phoenissam

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Elision is forceful

Phoenissam delayed, emphasises with caesura

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Libycaequae aspectus detinet urbis, quae tandem Ausonia Teucrls consider terra invisible est

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Elision emphasises that not much handed

Elision emphasises that it is far away

Teucros -> excluding her

enjambement -> anger flaring up

32
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et nos fas extera quaerere regna

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Fas -> emotive, morally right

nefas earlier- he is rebuking her pointedly

33
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ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi intrantem muros, vocemque his auribus Hausi

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Ipse, his -> emphatic

Ipse deum -> juxtaposition -> shows how close he was to the god

Manifesto -> promotions indicates surity

hausi -> metaphor suggests intoxicating and enthusiasm

34
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desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis

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Assonance expresses exasperation

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i, sequere Italiam ventis, Pete Regna per undas.

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imperatives -> aggressive tone

Assonance -> harsh

36
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supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum.

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Scopulis -> word choice , jagged

Caesura -> disjointed , speech is not near

37
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sequar atris ignibus absens

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Reference to fury- spirits that exact revenge in the afterlife

38
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omnibus umbra locis adero

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omnibus has high impact position

Caesura disjointed

39
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quam Troius heros, ut primum iuxta stetit agnovitque per Umbras obscurum

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heros -> Virgil wants us to forgive Aeneas

stetit -> dentals, trembling

enjambement emphasises the vivid description of obscuram, putting it in a high impact position

40
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qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt aut videsse putat per nubila lunam

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Simile -> creates a familiarity for comparison. Also shows us Aeneas’ perception

lunam -> high impact position -> separation fro surgere to highlight doubt

41
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demisit lacrimas dulcique adfatus amore est

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Elisions, words blur demonstrates uncertainty

promotion of dulcique shows his affection

42
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infelix Dido, versus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam,

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Infelix -> word choice indicate Pity and echoes their first convo-

Enxstinctan -> hyperbolic, metaphor for the flames of love and life

43
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funeris heu tibi causa fui?

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Fricatives show forceful emotion

Heu -> exclamation of woe

44
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per sidera iuro, per superos, et si qua fides tellure sub ima est,

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per, per, si -> tricolon, more echoing

Sibilence -> emphatic, desperation

45
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invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi

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Invitus in a high impact position -> the big idea

regina -> formal, respect

cessi-> half line, another echo

46
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sed iussa deum, quae nunc has ire per umbras,

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me iussa deum -> juxtaposition, emphasises that Aeneas is an instrument of the gods

Per Umbria’s is part of a tricolon, rhetorical to persuade, creating pathos

iussa deum -> command word

47
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per loca senta situ cogunt noctemque profundam,

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Rest of tricolon

Senta situ-> vivid description evoke pathos

cogunt -> command word-> emphasising that it wasn’t his choice

48
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imperiis egere suis. nec credere quivi hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre Dolorem

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enjambement emphasises command word -> it wasn’t his choice

tibi me discessu -> juxtaposition is regretful

dolorem delayed for high impact

49
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siste gradum, teque aspectu ne subtrahe nostro.

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imperatives -> desperation

Assonance -> desperation
Elision shows urgency

Sub -> down into the Underworld

50
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quem fugis?

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Echo of me ne fugis

51
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extremum fato quod te adloquor hoc est. “

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Promotion go extremum gives it high impact to emphasise desperation

52
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talibus Aeneas ardentem et torva tuentem lenibat dictis animum, lacrimasque ciebat

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Dentals illustrate didos hostility -> implacable

Assonance -> Aeneas’ desperation

Torva -> vivid

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classem aptent taciti sociosque ad litora cogant, arma parent

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3 orders in quick succession - urgency

Semantic field of deceitfullness

54
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dissimulent; sese interea, quando optima Dido nesciat

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Enjambement -> emphasis, dramatic power

Semi-colon -> dramatic pause

Optima emphasises scale of relationship

55
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et tantos rumpi non speret amores

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Tantos, amores -> emphasise scale of relationship

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mollissima fandi tempora, quis rebus dexter modus.

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Mollissima, fando -> emphasise scale of relationship

Enjambement

Caesura shows his awkwardness and unusualness of his unheroic actions

Imperio - words used to show the commands of the gods are now used to show commands of Aeneas -> deification

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“dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum posse nefas, tacitusque mea decedere terra”

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Disjointed -> loosely structured word order shows crazed mental state

Perfide -> hostile, accusatory, she feels betrayed

Enjambement -> lack of control

Mixture of dentals and sibilence

58
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nec te noster amor nec te data dextera quondam nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido

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Tricolon, anaphora -> reinforces negative tone, escalates in intensity

Rhetorical questions

3rs person - more poignant, pathetic pathos invoked

59
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cruedelis? quid, si non arva aliena domosque ignotas peteres

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Vocative enjambement -> more emphasis

Exclamatory -> angry incomprehension

Ignotas -> powerful, high-impact position -> central to her argument

60
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per ego has lacrimas dextramque tuam te

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Personal pronouns link them together
Per -> escalating intensity and desperation
Right hand connoting marriage

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quando aliud mihi is miserae nihil ipsa reliqui

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She has given everything to him

Aliud promoted above nihil
Mihi promoted above miserae

She feels empty -> juxtaposition

Pathos

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per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos

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Per -> escalating intensity

Marital imagery -> Dido considers them to man and wife

63
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miserere domus labentis, et istam, oro

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Main verb in whole sentence -> desperation

Miserere-> imperative

64
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si quis adhuc precibus locus, exue mentem

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Quis promoted above locus -> desperation

Exue -> imperative

65
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his medium dictis sermonem abrumpit

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ablative absolute emphasises abruptness

His promoted before dictis, medium promoted before sermonem -> links them together

Vivid use of present tense

66
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et auras aegra fugit seque ex oculis avertit et aufert

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Aegra fugit -> juxtaposition -> strong words put together illustrate her strong emotions

Elision

Avertit, aufert -> imagery shows her going away

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liquens multa metu cunctantem et multa parantem dicere

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Caesura -> dramatic pause, sad silence, sense of emptiness

Elision -> emphasises multa

Repetition of multa -> he has a lot to say but doesn’t get the time to say it

Enjambement -> left hanging

68
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conlapsaque membra marmoreo referunt thalamo stratisque reponunt

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Pathos invoked

Marmoreo promoted ahead of nominative -> emphasised

Marble is cold and hard- no comfort -> extended metaphor for the Underworld

Dramatic irony increases pity and tension

69
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at pius Aeneas

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Change in tone

Pius -> devotion to gods, family

Epithet

70
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avertere curas, multa gemens, magnoque animum labefactus amore

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avertere -> used by Dido -> she wants to turn away from him and he wants to turn aside her concerns

Multa, magnoque -> emphatic words show he is genuinely upset

Elision emphasises animum -> shows the depth of his distress

Magnoque promoted above amore

71
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exsequitur classemque revisit

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Ex -> shows his loyalty as he follows the commands of the gods to the end, throughly

Showing his devotion to the gods, even in his emotional state

Regression -> Aeneas is returning to his old life, links to when Dido is brought back to his bed

72
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illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat

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Assonance -> miserable phonology

Away prefix

73
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nec magis incepto vultum sermone movetur

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Incepto promoted above sermone

Ablative absolute

She is implacable

74
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quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes

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Simile -> vivid

Marpesia -> island of Paros -> famous for white marble, paints vivid picture of her

75
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tandem corripuit sese, atque inimica refugit in nemus umbriferum

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Frisson

Elision emphasises inimica

Refugit - regressing

Shadowy imagery

76
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Prosequitur lacrimis longe, et miseratur euntem

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Present tense helps us dwell on a poignant moment

Escorting a body in a funeral

Lacrimis above miseratur -> pathos

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