" In "Lavinia, " Ursula LeGuin invented the back story of Aeneas's wife in Virgil's "Aeneid.

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In 70 BC, the Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, was born.

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Aposiopesis is one of those literary tropes you learn while studying "The Aeneid" in high school Latin, and it stuck in my head better than many others over the intervening years.

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Aposiopesis refers to a breaking-off of speech, and in Book I of "The Aeneid" the god Neptune does just that while chastising the East and West winds for making a storm without his permission.

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Also found in his possession were a gold nugget belonging to the pope, a signed check made out to Pope Benedict XVI for 100, 000 euros and an original version of Virgil's Aeneid from 1581.

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Professor Levi rightly hands the palm to Dryden (though he also recommends Cecil Day Lewis's tremendous translation of the Aeneid from 1954), but this lends his Virgil an 18th-century air, with Swains and Cotts and woodland Frolicks.

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