Re: VIRGIL: Shield in book eight

[Agerchen]

Perhaps Virgil consciously chooses to compare Aeneas to Augustus, in the idea 
that just as Augustus defeated Cleopatra and Antony, enemies to the state and 
his own advancement of Rome's power and prestigue, so too must Aeneas fight 
against those who try to thwart his own founding of a homeland?
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