| 41. | Virgil's opening line for the " Aeneid " is a classic example of Latin hexameter:
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| 42. | The Augustan poet Ovid parodies the opening lines of the " Aeneid " in " Donatus.
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| 43. | Clothing colored with the Tyrian dye was mentioned in both the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil.
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| 44. | Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine ( Aeneid book VI ).
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| 45. | The poet Virgil makes reference to a haunted copse of cornel and myrtle in Book III of the Aeneid.
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| 46. | In the Aeneid a shooting star falls onto the mountain in answer to the prayer of Anchises to Jupiter.
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| 47. | According to Francis Atterbury, the character Iapis in Virgil's Aeneid represents Musa while Aeneas represents Augustus.
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| 48. | Brief translations of Virgil's " Aeneid " in that first book led to further experiments.
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| 49. | The German and Italian fascists used and misused classical literature, especially Virgil's " Aeneid ."
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| 50. | The " Aeneid "'s first six books describe the journey of Aeneas from Troy to Rome.
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