CLAS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Turnus, Latinus, Mezentius
15 Aug 2016
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Juno sends iris (messenger) down from olympus to tell turnus that. Aeneas is away from camp turnus leads army toward enemy camp. Trojans were given orders to not begin battle until aeneas" return, but to man and protect the walls and keep the gates closed so they did just that in full armor. Turnus can"t find weakness in their defense so he burns their ships anchored to shore. Due to the fact that cybele (mother of gods and sister of saturn) requested her sone jupiter to render the vessels immortal because they were built of wood from trees in her sacred forest. The vessels suddenly pull lose from anchors while burning, submerge and reappear as sea nymphs. Turnus lights a fire in one of the towers on the gate and kills many. Trojans inside; trojans within fortress begin to panic, ascanius renews their hope (fires an arrow through head of remulus, one of the latin captains)
