BOOK XII
Final conflict between Æneas and Turnus.
[279:29.] Orichalc. Copper.
[280:24.] Vervain. Verbena, leafy twig, sacred bough (of laurel, olive, myrtle, or cypress).
[288:18.] Dittany. Herb growing on Mount Dicte in Crete.
[288:24.] Ambrosia. Sustenance of immortal life, food of the gods, as nectar is their drink.
[296:12.] Holms. Oaks, holm-oak, “great scarlet oak.”
[303:16.] Soul. Cf. the Emperor Hadrian’s Address to his Soul, translated by Byron, Prior, Pope, Merivale, Carnarvon, etc.
“Soul of mine, pretty one, flitting one,