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	==Relevant Skills==		==Relevant Skills==
-	skills gained when read for first time go here	+	You feel that reading this material has broadened your perspective and increased your knowledge of history and legend lore.
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Fungor at 23:49, 29 December 2016

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	==Description==		==Description==
-	Short desc (count book)	+	a leather-bound parchment book.

-	title of book including language (l title of book)	+	The writing is in Anglic, and reads:
		+	The Aeneid

-	long desc (l book)	+	An ancient-looking volume of ragged-edged parchment in a cracked leather binding upon which is engraved the image of
		+	two twining snakes and a title in angular letters. It is closed. It is closed. You appraise it at ninety-eight gold.
		+	It looks about a quarter of a dimin long, one and seventeen twentieths dimins wide, and two and nine twentieths dimins
		+	tall. It weighs about one hundred forty-three two-hundredths of a dekan.

-	info text (info book)	+	The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be used with it. Keeping the
		+	leather-bound parchment book costs seven keep points. The leather-bound parchment book was created by Lost Souls; the
		+	source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:15:36 2016. The material leather was created by Lost Souls; the source code
		+	was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:23 2016. The material parchment was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last
		+	updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:43 2016.
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	==Text==		==Text==
-	page 1 text	+	THE FIRST BOOK OF THE AENEIS
		+	THE ARGUMENT.-- The Trojans, after a seven years' voyage, set
		+	sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a dreadful storm, which AEolus
		+	raises at Juno's request. The tempest sinks one, and scatters the
		+	rest. Neptune drives off the Winds, and calms the sea. AEneas,
		+	with his own ship, and six more, arrives safe at an African port.
		+	Venus complains to Jupiter of her son's misfortunes. Jupiter com-
		+	forts her, and sends Mercury to procure him a kind reception among
		+	the Carthaginians. AEneas, going out to discover the country, meets
		+	his mother in the shape of an huntress, who conveys him in a cloud
		+	to Carthage, where he sees his friends whom he thought lost, and
		+	receives a kind entertainment from the queen. Dido, by a device
		+	of Venus, begins to have a passion for him, and, after some dis-
		+	course with him, desires the history of his adventures since the
		+	siege of Troy, which is the subject of the two following books.
		+	ARMS, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
		+	And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
		+	Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
		+	Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,
		+	And in the doubtful war, before he won

-	page 2 text	+	The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;
		+	His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine,
		+	And settled sure succession in his line,
		+	From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
		+	And the long glories of majestic Rome.
		+	O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
		+	What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate;
		+	For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began
		+	To persecute so brave, so just a man;
		+	Involv'd his anxious life in endless cares,
		+	Expos'd to wants, and hurried into wars!
		+	Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show,
		+	Or exercise their spite in human woe?
		+	Against the Tiber's mouth, but far away,
		+	An ancient town was seated on the sea;
		+	A Tyrian colony; the people made
		+	Stout for the war, and studious of their trade:
		+	Carthage the name; belov'd by Juno more
		+	Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore.
		+	Here stood her chariot; here, if Heav'n were kind,
		+	The seat of awful empire she design'd.
		+	Yet she had heard an ancient rumor fly,

-	etc.	+	(Long cited by the people of the sky,)
		+	That times to come should see the Trojan race
		+	Her Carthage ruin, and her tow'rs deface;
		+	Nor thus confin'd, the yoke of sov'reign sway
		+	Should on the necks of all the nations lay.
		+	She ponder'd this, and fear'd it was in fate;
		+	Nor could forget the war she wag'd of late
		+	For conqu'ring Greece against the Trojan state.
		+	Besides, long causes working in her mind,
		+	And secret seeds of envy, lay behind;
		+	Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd
		+	Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd;
		+	The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed,
		+	Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed.
		+	Each was a cause alone; and all combin'd
		+	To kindle vengeance in her haughty mind.
		+	For this, far distant from the Latian coast
		+	She drove the remnants of the Trojan host;
		+	And sev'n long years th' unhappy wand'ring train
		+	Were toss'd by storms, and scatter'd thro' the main.
		+	Such time, such toil, requir'd the Roman name,
		+	Such length of labor for so vast a frame.
		+
		+	Now scarce the Trojan fleet, with sails and oars,
		+	Had left behind the fair Sicilian shores,
		+	Ent'ring with cheerful shouts the wat'ry reign,
		+	And plowing frothy furrows in the main;
		+	When, lab'ring still with endless discontent,
		+	The Queen of Heav'n did thus her fury vent:
		+	"Then am I vanquish'd? must I yield?" said she,
		+	"And must the Trojans reign in Italy?
		+	So Fate will have it, and Jove adds his force;
		+	Nor can my pow'r divert their happy course.
		+	Could angry Pallas, with revengeful spleen,
		+	The Grecian navy burn, and drown the men?
		+	She, for the fault of one offending foe,
		+	The bolts of Jove himself presum'd to throw:
		+	With whirlwinds from beneath she toss'd the ship,
		+	And bare expos'd the bosom of the deep;
		+	Then, as an eagle gripes the trembling game,
		+	The wretch, yet hissing with her father's flame,
		+	S he strongly seiz'd, and with a burning wound
		+	Transfix'd, and naked, on a rock she bound.
		+	But I, who walk in awful state above,
		+	The majesty of heav'n, the sister wife of Jove,
		+
		+	For length of years my fruitless force employ
		+	Against the thin remains of ruin'd Troy!
		+	What nations now to Juno's pow'r will pray,
		+	Or off'rings on my slighted altars lay?"
		+	Thus rag'd the goddess; and, with fury fraught,
		+	The restless regions of the storms she sought,
		+	Where, in a spacious cave of living stone,
		+	The tyrant AEolus, from his airy throne,
		+	With pow'r imperial curbs the struggling winds,
		+	And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
		+	This way and that th' impatient captives tend,
		+	And, pressing for release, the mountains rend.
		+	High in his hall th' undaunted monarch stands,
		+	And shakes his scepter, and their rage commands;
		+	Which did he not, their unresisted sway
		+	Would sweep the world before them in their way;
		+	Earth, air, and seas thro' empty space would roll,
		+	And heav'n would fly before the driving soul.
		+	In fear of this, the Father of the Gods
		+	Confin'd their fury to those dark abodes,
		+	And lock'd 'em safe within, oppress'd with mountain loads;
		+	Impos'd a king, with arbitrary sway,
		+
		+	Total pages 631.

	==Relevant Skills==		==Relevant Skills==

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Fungor — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:05:36 GMT

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==Description==
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title of book including language (l title of book)

long desc (l book)

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==Text==
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==Relevant Skills==
skills gained when read for first time go here
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