Aeneid: Comparison of the beginnings of Books IV and XII

 

 

IV.1-2 

But the queen, long since wounded [saucia] by grievous [gravi] love-pain,

feeds the wound [vulnus] from her veins and is consumed by unseen fire.

 

XII.1-9

[Turnus sees the Latins defeated and broken] –

he burns unappeasably

and raises his spirits or courage. As the lion in Punic fields,

wounded [saucia] in the chest by the grievous [gravi] stroke [vulnere] of hunters,

only then stirs to arms, and rejoices, shaking out his flowing mane from his neck, and, undaunted, breaks the spear implanted by the hunters

and roars with bloody mouth,

just so the violence blazes up in the enraged Turnus.