There is useful contribution to this question in Julia T. Dyson's 'King of
the Wood' (Oklahoma 2001) - a big improvement (for my money) on Frazer's
original arguments.
Dyson argues among other things that V clearly leads us to think that
Aeneas will die amid water. She particularly emphasises Pali
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>Yesterday I received the following message from Tom Bestul, my old
>Anglo-Saxon teacher:
>
>>I am editing a commentary on Proverbs by Alexander Nequam (d. 1217), and
>>have encountered what seems to me a very curious statement about Aeneas,
>>namely that he drowned in the battle with Turnus, and t
Yesterday I received the following message from Tom Bestul, my old
Anglo-Saxon teacher:
>I am editing a commentary on Proverbs by Alexander Nequam (d. 1217), and
>have encountered what seems to me a very curious statement about Aeneas,
>namely that he drowned in the battle with Turnus, and this fa
