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| | Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - Chapter 31, ADVENTURES OF AENEAS: THe Harpies, Dido, Palinurus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | On that fatal night when the wooden horse disgorged its contents of armed men, and the capture and conflagration of the city were the result, Æneas made his escape from the scene of destruction, with his father, and his wife, and young son. |
 | | The father, Anchises, was too old to walk with the speed required, and Æneas took him upon his shoulders.* Thus burdened, leading his son and followed by his wife, he made the best of his way out of the burning city; but, in the confusion, his wife was swept away and lost. |
 | | Having been directed in a dream to seek the abode of the dead in order to confer with his father, Anchises, to receive from him a revelation of his future fortunes and those of his race, he asked her assistance to enable him to accomplish the task. |
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