The Aeneid, Book 7: samenvatting

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1. After Caieta’s funeral, the Trojans sail safely past Circe’s coast and enter the Tiber.
2. Omens and Faunus’s oracle warn Latinus that Lavinia must marry a foreigner whose descendants gain vast power.
3. Eating their bread plates confirms the Trojans’ destination, and Aeneas sends ambassadors while fortifying a settlement.
4. Latinus welcomes the ambassadors, grants their requests, and proposes Aeneas as Lavinia’s husband.
5. Alecto inflames Amata and Turnus, then turns Ascanius’s shooting of a tame stag into a deadly clash.
6. Latinus refuses war and withdraws; Juno opens its sacred gates, and numerous Italian commanders assemble their forces.

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Juno changes her aim from stopping Trojan settlement to making its success costly. Her decision drives the destruction of Latinus’s proposed alliance.

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