However, Aeneas' motives are due to his love of peace, a noble cause, "You ask me for peace for the dead, whose destiny has been to die in battle", he explains to the Latin envoys in book XI, "I for my part would have been willing to grant them peace when they were still alive.... He personifies the coastline of Italy itself, suggesting that "The waves were amazed and the woods were full of wonder at the unaccustomed sight of far-glinting shields of warriors" Of course, this may just be a device employed by Virgil to highlight how grand Augustus' ancestor...

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