CXXI. Then, looking up, his pleading hands he rears: "Death I deserve, nor death would I delay. Use, then, thy fortune. If a father's tears Move thee, for old Anchises' sake, I pray, Pity old Daunus. Me, or else my clay, If so thou wilt, to home and kin restore. Thine is the victory. Latium's land to-day Hath seen her prince the victor's grace implore. Lavinia now is thine; the bitter feud give o'er." CXXII. Wrathful in arms, with rolling eyeballs, stood AEneas, and his lifted arm withdrew; And more and more now melts his wavering mood, When lo, on Turnus' shoulder--known too true-- The luckless sword-belt flashed upon his view; And bright with gold studs shone the glittering prey, Which ruthless Turnus, when the youth he slew, Stripped from the lifeless Pallas, as he lay, And on his shoulders wore, in token of the day. CXXIII. Then terribly AEneas' wrath upboils, His fierce eyes fixt upon the sign of woe. "Shalt _thou_ go hence, and with the loved one's spoils? 'Tis Pallas--Pallas deals the deadly blow. And claims this victim for his ghost below." He spake, and mad with fury, as he said, Drove the keen falchion through his prostrate foe. The stalwart limbs grew stiff with cold and dead, And, groaning, to the shades the scornful spirit fled. NOTES TO BOOK ONE I. 'The Lavinian shore,' the coast of Italy near Lavinium, an old town in Latium. See also stanzas xxxv. and xxxvi. III. Carthage was a Phoenician colony, and Tyre was the leading Phoenician city. Samos was an island in the Archipelago near the coast of Asia Minor. There was a famous temple on it, dedicated to Juno, who was supposed to take a special interest in the island. V. 'The choice of Paris' refers to the Greek story that once when the gods were feasting, 'Discord' threw a golden apple on the table as a prize for the fairest. Juno, Minerva and Venus each claimed it, but the Trojan prince Paris, who was made judge, gave it to Venus. _Ganymede_ was a beautiful Trojan boy who was carried off to Olympus to be Jove's cup-bearer. VI. Ajax, son of Oileus, desecrated Minerva's temple at Troy. (Cf. Book II. stanza liv.) XIV. The 'son of Tydeus' is Diomedes, one of the foremost Greek warriors in the war with Troy. Aeneas narrowly escaped being slain by him. For _Sarpedon_ see Book IX. stanza lxxxix. and for _Simois_ note on Book VI. stanza xiv. XXVI. Acestes was king of Eryx in Sicily, which was called 'Trinacria' from its three promontories. See Book V. stanzas iv. and following. XXVII. See note on Book III. stanzas lxxi. and following. XXXII. The legend was that Antenor escaped from Troy and established a colony of Trojans at the northern end of the Adriatic. The _Timavus_ was a small river near where Trieste now is. XXXIII. _Patavium_. The modern Padua. XXXV. Ascanius or Iulus is the son of Aeneas.