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So I hate Aeneas a lot. I mean, this is not news; my hate-affair started when I first read the Aeneid, but now that I'm rereading book four, my hate was just strengthened.

Dido has an amazing long speech (which I am going to memorize, actually), and then Aeneas answers, "You are able to relate so many things for me, speaking; and I will never deny that you are deserving, nor will it shame me to remember Elissa..."

NOR WILL IT SHAME ME. What kind of response is that, seriously? And then the next line he lies - and there is no way of getting around it. "I never hoped to escape secretly," he says. Except for the way he didn't tell her, and told his men to prepare secretly. Jerk.


(This of course is only compounded by him saying "I didn't know I meant that much to you" in book six when he runs into her in the underworld.)