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                STORIES FROM VIRGIL

                      BY THE
            REV. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A.

  _Head Master of King Edward's School, Retford_;
          AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM HOMER."


          WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
              FROM PINELLI'S DESIGNS


                 _FIFTH THOUSAND._


     SEELEY, JACKSON, & HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET
                LONDON. MDCCCLXXIX.

             (_All Rights Reserved._)


        UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS,
               CHILWORTH AND LONDON.




  [Illustration: THE FLIGHT FROM TROY.]




CONTENTS.


     CHAP.                                                   PAGE
        I. THE HORSE OF WOOD                                    1

       II. THE SACK OF TROY                                    10

      III. AENEAS AND ANCHISES                                 20

       IV. POLYDORUS--DELOS--CRETE--THE HARPIES                29

        V. KING HELENUS--THE CYCLOPS                           39

       VI. THE SHIPWRECK                                       52

      VII. CARTHAGE                                            58

     VIII. DIDO                                                68

       IX. THE LOVE AND DEATH OF DIDO                          78

        X. THE FUNERAL GAMES OF ANCHISES                       96

       XI. THE FUNERAL GAMES (CONTINUED)                      107

      XII. THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS--THE VOYAGE TO ITALY      115

     XIII. THE SIBYL                                          124

      XIV. THE DWELLINGS OF THE DEAD                          132

       XV. KING LATINUS                                       149

      XVI. THE WRATH OF JUNO                                  159

     XVII. THE GATHERING OF THE CHIEFS                        167

    XVIII. KING EVANDER                                       173

      XIX. THE ARMS OF AENEAS                                 181

       XX. NISUS AND EURYALUS                                 190

      XXI. THE BATTLE AT THE CAMP                             202

     XXII. THE BATTLE ON THE SHORE                            210

    XXIII. THE COUNCIL                                        226

     XXIV. THE BATTLE AT THE CITY                             235

      XXV. THE BROKEN TREATY                                  245

     XXVI. THE DEATH OF TURNUS                                253




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


    THE FLIGHT FROM TROY                           _Frontispiece_

    LAOCOON                                                     8

    AENEAS AND HELEN                                           20

    AENEAS AND THE SHADE OF CREUSA                             26

    THE HARPIES                                                36

    JUNO AND AEOLUS                                            54

    NEPTUNE STILLING THE WAVES                                 56

    DIDO AND THE FALSE ASCANIUS                                76

    DIDO ON THE FUNERAL PILE                                   94

    ENTELLUS KILLING THE BULL                                 110

    CHARON AND THE GHOSTS                                     134

    CERBERUS                                                  136

    AENEAS AND THE SHADE OF DIDO                              138

    THE FURY AT THE FEAST                                     142

    TURNUS OVER THE BODIES OF ALMO AND GALAESUS               168

    AENEAS AND TIBER                                          174

    HERCULES AND CACUS                                        178

    VULCAN AND THE CYCLOPES                                   186

    IRIS APPEARING TO TURNUS                                  190

    NISUS AND EURYALUS                                        198

    THE MOTHER OF EURYALUS RECEIVING THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH    200

    AENEAS AND THE BODY OF LAUSUS                             222

    CAMILLA AND THE SON OF AUNUS                              240

    THE DEATH OF CAMILLA                                      242




  TO THE HONOURED MEMORY

            OF

      JOHN CONINGTON

  THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.




PREFACE.


The favour with which the public received "Stories from Homer" has
encouraged me to deal in the same way with the Aeneid. I have found it
a difficult task, and I must ask the indulgence of my readers, who
will certainly miss, not only the freshness and simplicity of the
great Greek epic, but those chief characteristics of Virgil, his
supreme mastery of expression and the splendour of his style. I beg
them to remember that I do