VI. Æneas visits the infernal regions. This book corresponds to Odyssey, xi.
VII. Latinus king of Italy entertains Æneas, and promises to him Lavinia (his daughter) in marriage, but prince Turnus had been already betrothed to her by the mother, and raises an army to resist Æneas.
VIII. Preparations on both sides for a general war.
IX. Turnus, during the absence of Æneas, fires the ships and assaults the camp. The episode of Nisus and Eury'alus.
X. The war between Turnus and Æneas. Episode of Mezentius and Lausus.
XI. The battle continued.
XII. Turnus challenges Æneas to single combat, and is killed.
N.B.—1. The story of Sinon and taking of Troy is borrowed from Pisander, as Macrobius informs us.
2. The loves of Dido and Æneas are copied from those of Medea and Jason, in Apollonius.
3. The story of the wooden horse and the burning of Troy are from Arcti'nus of Miletus.