«Artis
est celare artem»
point de rupture* - IV VI
- point pas de retour
VI
IV
IX XI
«Sidonia
Dido»
*brilliant expression by Lavinie M.
«Ingratum
si dixerit, omnia dicis»
"Virgil
demonstrates that Aeneas is a cold-blooded killer on and off the battlefield
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Virgil explains the
torture Aeneas has brought upon Dido
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Aeneas’ killing of Dido
was necessary for Aeneas
to see what Virgil
wanted to demonstrate to his patron, Augustus...
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/ Dido’s death, Virgil makes
clear to those who did not recognize it in Book IV,
was not a suicide,
but the doing of Aeneas".
De Vasquez, Dido's Murder
"...Hence the
hypothesis that he (Virgil) used in his works a system of double
language,
under which cover he
could preserve his freedom of speech without bringing immediate punishment upon
himself /
/ Proceding step by
step, one discovers that other poets, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid,
express under the
same cover the same hostility against Augustus and his Regime.
Naturally, the
emperor largely penetrated their subtext,
but he tolerated it
probably by amusement as well as by calculation.
The important thing
was that these influential writers seemed to support him;
what they really said
did not really matter
as long as he
controlled the situation and could destroy them at any moment.
He liked to take his
time and repeated at every turn: festina lente".
Maleuvre,
Virgil's Murder
Would
you represent Virgil as a mosquito to celebrate him?
Well,
you're wrong: a powerful Emperor did it.
Two
sides of the same (Augustus) coin:
To
know more, consult:
"VirgilMurder", A coin
speaks: M.
Durmius' denarius
"VirgilMurder" by QueenDido.org: An imperial snake (Ov. Met. 3. 131-137)
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At first
a fair
punishment,
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What are those
"two fair vests,
of wondrous work and cost,
of purple woven,
and with gold
emboss'd,
which with her hands Sidonian Dido
wrought"? |
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then
an unfair
suicide,
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Did we really
read 11.72/75? |
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then
again
a pitiless
murder.
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And now,
are we
quite sure
Virgil's Dido
is dead?
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