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The great moral lesson of the Aeneid is probably that you must follow your destiny, not your dreams.

In Carthage in Book III, Aeneas really wants to stay and settle down with Dido. But the gods remind him that his work is to establish the Roman race in Italy, so he leaves Dido and sets sail afresh.

Throughout the poem Aeneas is called pius : godfearing.

The moral centre of the book is probably when Aeneas meets Dido in the Underworld. Aeneas is heartbroken to see how his leaving Dido has driven her to suicide, he tells her so. But he also explains that he had no choice: his life was not his own.

Dido will not listen to him, she is locked into her own misery.

Dido follows her dream, and brings ruin on herself (and, in the long term, on her people).

Aeneas follows his destiny, and finds fulfilment for himself, and for the eternal city of Rome.

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