But Diomed sprang upon Aeneas, though he knew him to be in the very arms of Apollo.
The son of Tydeus then gave way for a little space, to avoid the anger of the god, while Apollo took Aeneas out of the crowd and set him in sacred Pergamus, where his temple stood.
Aeneas the son of Anchises has fallen, he whom we held in as high honour as Hector himself.
Then Apollo sent Aeneas forth from his rich sanctuary, and filled his heart with valour, whereon he took his place among his comrades, who were overjoyed at seeing him alive, sound, and of a good courage; but they could not ask him how it had all happened, for they were too busy with the turmoil raised by Mars and by Strife, who raged insatiably in their midst.
As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the front rank, the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost.
Then Aeneas killed two champions of the Danaans, Crethon and Orsilochus.
Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandishing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were setting their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.
Believing that Turnus has been killed in the duel with
Aeneas and fearing that her daughter Lavinia will have to marry
Aeneas, and that she herself is the cause of all the evils of the war, Amata hangs herself with her robes.
Plymouth, NH, March 21, 2018 --(PR.com)-- PSU Chamber Singers present Henry Purcell's "Dido and
Aeneas" on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 7pm in Smith Recital Hall of the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH.