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The Aeneid (Prose Translation)

by Virgil

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Book IX

The attack of Turnus on the Trojan camp.

198:5. Child. Iris.

198:29. Messapus. A Tyrrhenian chief whose followers are from Fescennium and other places on the right bank of the Tiber. See Book VII.

203:19. Wont. Were wont.

212:5. Ravin. Ravages.

217:12. Kid-stars. The Kids were two stars in the hand of Auriga, the setting of which in December was attended with heavy rains.

217:24. Padus. The Po.

217:24. Athesis. A river in northern Italy, now the Adige.

218:22. Prochyta. A small island off the west of Campania, near the promontory of Micenum.

218:23. Inarime. An island off the Campanian coast, now Ischia.

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