... 's probable adaptation of Homer's sleep of bronze (Iliad 11.241). Connington also points out the similarity between lines 734-735 and Iliad 7.243 indeed Mezentius" victim Orodes has forecast the imminent fatality of his slayer just as Hector did to Achilles and indeed is met with the same abrupt dismissal, and again 736 with Iliad 16. 862-863 where the failing Patroclus has been addressing ... Hector; the question is why does Vergil choose to use so many Homeric references in this passage, apart from firmly establishing the ... is far more deeply affected by the dying man's taunts than ...

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