Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.329 Phoebus

  Apollo (Phoebus), god of the sun, prophecy, music and poetry; patron of song throughout, called 'the Cynthian' in Eclogue 6 and the reigning god of the new age in Eclogue 4.

• The Aeneid §2.114 Phoebus

  Apollo (Phoebus), god of prophecy whose oracle Eurypylus consults; patron of the Trojan citadel.

• The Aeneid §3.75 bow-bearer

  Apollo, the archer-god, who moored his birth-island Delos fast amid the Cyclades.

• The Aeneid §4.58 Phoebus

  Apollo (Phoebus); the simile likens Aeneas to the god returning to Delos.

• The Aeneid §6.9 Apollo

  God of prophecy, the sun, and the lyre; called Phoebus and the Delian, he inspires the Sibyl and presides at Cumae.

• The Aeneid §8.336 Apollo

  Apollo, god of prophecy, who guided the exiled Evander to Italy.

• The Aeneid §9.638 Apollo

  God of prophecy and archery, who praises Ascanius' shot but bids him fight no more this day.

• The Aeneid §10.172 Apollo

  God of prophecy and archery; a gilded Apollo adorns Abas' ship.

• The Aeneid §11.785 Apollo

  God of prophecy and archery, who grants half of Arruns' prayer—Camilla's death, not his own safety.

• The Aeneid §12.197 twin offspring of Latona

  Apollo and Diana, the twin children of Latona, sworn by Latinus.

• The Eclogues §3.62 Phoebus

  Apollo (Phoebus), god of the sun, prophecy, music and poetry; patron of song throughout, called 'the Cynthian' in Eclogue 6 and the reigning god of the new age in Eclogue 4.

• The Georgics §4.7 Apollo

  God of song and prophecy, whose favour the poet asks for his 'slight' but glorious bee-theme.