place
Delos
The Aegean island sacred to Apollo and Diana, birthplace of Latona's children; a stock poetic theme.
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §3.79 Apollo's city
Delos (Ortygia), the sacred island of Apollo's birth, anchored amid the Cyclades.
- The Aeneid §4.144 Delos
Apollo's birth-island; he visits it in the simile for Aeneas in his hunting-splendour.
- The Georgics §3.6 Delos
Apollo's island, birthplace of Latona's children; a hackneyed poetic theme.