... return. Virgil condones war for the sake of his patron, Augustus Caesar, whose recent victory at Actium, three years before the creation of Virgil's epic, had quelled the rebellion of the Roman commander Marcus Antonius. For this reason, Virgil has drawn comparisons to his patron's success with that of his ... the perform through his narrative. But, in one of a few areas of the poem that lacks consistency (Virgil never lived to fully complete his epic), Juno declares that she wishes to "quit these battles which I so detest." This would suggest that, if even the gods themselves loathe .....

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