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Aeneid | Book 6 Summary and Analysis
New Characters:
Gyas: captain of the ship Chimerae
Menoetes: pilot of the Chimerae
Mnesthus: captain of the Shark
Cloanthus: captain of the Scylla
Sergestus: captain of the Centaur
Nisus: devoted friend of Euryalus
Euryalus: a handsome Trojan youth
Dares: a famed Trojan boxer
Entellus: an aged Sicilian boxer
Pyrgo: eldest Trojan woman, former nurse of Priam’s children
Nautes: Trojan seer
Summary
The Trojans land in Cumae. Aeneas seeks out the cave of the Sibyl. He waits for her in the...
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