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1  Nay, no other funeral than this would I deem thy due, my Pallas, than good Aeneas does, than the mighty Phrygians, than the Tyrrhene captains and all the army of Tyrrhenia.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
2  Be there one to commit me duly to earth, rescued or ransomed from the battlefield: or, if fortune deny that, to pay me far away the rites of funeral and the grace of a tomb.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK NINTH
3  First they build up a vast pyre of resinous billets and sawn oak, whose sides they entwine with dark leaves and plant funereal cypresses in front, and adorn it above with his shining armour.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  Forth of it she seemed to hear her husband's voice crying and calling when night was dim upon earth, and alone on the house-tops the screech-owl often made moan with funeral note and long-drawn sobbing cry.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
5  Meanwhile Aeneas and his fleet in unwavering track now held mid passage, and cleft the waves that blackened under the North, looking back on the city that even now gleams with hapless Elissa's funeral flame.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIFTH
6  The Arcadians stream to the gates, snatching funeral torches after their ancient use; the road gleams with the long line of flame, and parts the fields with a broad pathway of light; the arriving crowd of Phrygians meets them and mingles in mourning array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  But the Queen, the pyre being built up of piled faggots and sawn ilex in the inmost of her dwelling, hangs the room with chaplets and garlands it with funeral boughs: on the pillow she lays the dress he wore, the sword he left, and an image of him, knowing what was to come.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
8  But Dido, fluttered and fierce in her awful purpose, with bloodshot restless gaze, and spots on her quivering cheeks burning through the pallor of imminent death, bursts into the inner courts of the house, and mounts in madness the high funeral pyre, and unsheathes the sword of Dardania, a gift asked for no use like this.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH