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Aeneid
thumb|300px|Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). [[Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy]]
right|thumb|300px|Map of Aeneas' fictional journey
Trojan Horse
tale from Trojan War, a wooden horse used by the Greeks during the Trojan war
Servius
late 4th/early 5th century Roman grammarian
Palladium
in Greek mythology cult image of Athena on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
Latin phrase
Vergilius Vaticanus
early illustrated copy of Virgil
Vergilius Romanus
5th century illustrated manuscript
Tiberius Claudius Donatus
5th-century Roman writer and grammarian
Golden Bough
mythical object in Virgil's epic poem "Aeneid"
ad astra
Latin phrase meaning "to the stars"
Vergilius Augusteus
manuscript
Deiopea
nymph in Roman mythology
Aricia
daughter of Pallas in Greek mythology
Sortes virgilianae
way of consulting the pages of Virgil to ascertain one's fortune, by opening the book at random, putting the finger on a passage and taking that for the oracle of fate one is in quest of