Drancës approves and, motivated by jealousy of Turnus, says that Lavinia should wed Aeneas. He proposes to send envoys with gifts to them. Furthermore, having engaged in personal combat against Aeneas, he is all too familiar with the Trojan's physical prowess.ĭiscouraged, Latinus declares that the war against the Trojans is hopeless, and that they should be welcomed to Latium and given land or, should they choose to go elsewhere, given ships. He enumerates the mishaps that have befallen him: His companions were changed into birds, he lost his wife, and he was exiled from Argos to his present kingdom as punishment for having wounded Venus.
Nothing but evil, Diomedes declares, has happened to those who fought against the Trojans during the Trojan War. Increasing the Latins's despair, messengers now arrive from the southern Italian city of Arpi with a message from its king, Diomedes, to whom the Latins have appealed for aid, announcing that he has refused their request. However, Queen Amata defends Turnus against such criticism. Drancës insists that Turnus should fight alone against Aeneas in order to settle the issue since Turnus is the one who most opposes the Trojans's settling in Italy. Meanwhile, there is great mourning in Laurentum and much opposition to the war and to Turnus's proposed marriage to Lavinia. The Latins do the same, and fires burn for three days. On the battlefield, Aeneas and Tarchon, the Etruscans's leader, oversee the funeral rites for their dead, which include the sacrifice of animals, the burning of the dead soldiers's bodies, and the burial of the ashes.
Evander sends back the men in the escort with a message for Aeneas: The Trojan leader owes him Turnus's death. The king laments that he himself did not die instead of his son, but he declares that he does not blame the Trojans for his son's death, and that he is consoled by the thought that it was for a good cause - to help the Trojans establish themselves in Latium. During the truce, which lasts for twelve days, the Trojans and the Latins live together peacefully and honor their respective dead.Īt Pallanteum, Evander and his people receive Pallas's body. The Latin envoy Drancës, who is a bitter enemy of Turnus, praises Aeneas and expresses the hope that Aeneas and Latinus will become allies. Aeneas grants this request, saying that he wants peace, and that he is willing to engage Turnus in single combat as a way of resolving the conflict. Now envoys come from Laurentum seeking a truce and asking Aeneas to allow the return of the Latin dead for burial.
This procession is followed by a line of mourners.
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Pallas's body is placed on a bier and sent off with an escort of a thousand men, plus spoils of war, sacrificial captives, and Pallas's horse, riderless. Aeneas mourns for the slain youth and pities his father, Evander, who is unaware of his son's death. But first, he says, the dead must be ceremonially burned and buried, and Pallas must be returned to Pallanteum. At dawn the next day, Aeneas, sick of slaughter, hangs Mezentius's armor on a big oak trunk as a memorial to the fallen king and as a sign of victory, and then tells his men that the time has come to march on Latinus.
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