Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.100 Simois

  River of the Trojan plain where Anchises wooed Venus and many fell in war.

• The Aeneid §3.302 Simois

  A river of the Troad; Andromache has named a stream of Epirus after it in her little Troy.

• The Aeneid §6.88 Simois

  A river of the Troad; the Sibyl foretells Italian rivers to match Troy's.

• The Aeneid §10.60 Simois

  The other river of Troy, paired with Xanthus.

• The Aeneid §11.257 Simois

  River of Troy; Diomedes recalls the Greeks who lie dead beneath its waters.