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VIRGIL's
Æn. III.
The Third Book of the
ÆNEIS.
The ARGUMENT.
Æneas proceeds in his Relation: He gives an Account of the Fleet with which he sail'd, and the Success of his first Voyage to Thrace; from thence be directs his Course to Delos, and asks the Oracle what place the Gods had appointed for his Habitation? By a mistake of the Oracle's Answer, he settles in Crete; his Household Gods give him the true sense of the Oracle, in a Dream. He follows their advice, and makes the best of his way for Italy: He is cast on several Shores, and meets with very surprising Adventures, till at length be lands on Sicily; where his Father Anchises dies. This is the place which he was sailing from, when the Tempest rose and threw him upon the Carthaginian Coast.
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hen Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan State,And Priam's Throne, by too severe a Fate:
When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians Prey,
And Ilium's lofty Tow'rs in Ashes lay:
