... go! 'T is Pallas, Pallas gives this deadly blow. He rais'd his arm aloft, and, at the word, Deep in his bosom drove the shining sword. The streaming blood distain'd his arms around, And the disdainful soul came rushing thro' the wound."" (Please note that the latter quote is from a different translation of the Aeneid by John Dryden.) In a manner of speaking ... , the Aeneid is sandwiched between elements taken directly from Homer; thus it is inviting us to consider Virgil's poetry in light of Homer's. The Aeneid is both praise to the Homer's style "if indeed imitation is the most sincere...

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