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last line translates as when unworthy life flees with a groan, under the shades.. describing Turnus' death. Aeneas kills Turnus after Turnus begs him to spare him, but Aeneas becomes outraged and inflamed by the furies after seeing Pallas' belt which Turnus had taken after killing him.

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last line translates as when unworthy life flees with a groan, under the shades.. describing Turnus' death. Aeneas kills Turnus after Turnus begs him to spare him, but Aeneas becomes outraged and inflamed by the furies after seeing Pallas' belt which Turnus had taken after killing him.

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Turney is an English (of Norman origin) name from various places in northern France. The pre-Roman personal name Turnus the surname is derived from means 'height', 'eminence'.

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Throughout the Aeneid Aeneas follows the will of the Gods (which is also Fate). Aeneas is fated to kill Turnus, so that the Roman race can establish itself in Italy.

It is Aeneas' duty to follow his destiny, since resisting destiny is to resist the will of the gods.

Vergil in many ways has ideas which closely anticipate the thinking of the Christians who would arrive a few generations later. The idea of submitting one's personal desires to the will of god is very Christian. (Aeneas does it by leaving Dido, Christ did it in the Garden of Gethsemane).

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there are several people he asked for help. soon after he leaves Troy he asked Apollo for help. Later he asked Helenus, a son of a Trojan king, and Dido, queen of Phonicia. Finally, during the war with Turnus and the Rutuli, he asked Evander, a king of a nearby city, and the Etruria, another neighbouring people.

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