Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.22 Libya

  North Africa, a land of sandy wastes and lonely fields haunted by lions.

• The Aeneid §4.36 Libya

  The North African land where Dido has founded Carthage.

• The Aeneid §6.843 Libya

  North Africa, here standing for Carthage, the Scipios' great enemy.

• The Aeneid §8.368 Libyan bear

  Libya, North Africa; Aeneas is laid on the hide of a Libyan bear.

• The Aeneid §12.5 Punic fields

  North Africa (the Punic land); the wounded Libyan lion is the image of roused Turnus.

• The Georgics §1.241 Libya

  North Africa, a land of sandy waste.