"How anyone can feel a strong sympathy for Turnus in his weakness at the end of Book 12 escapes me. The man is a thug."
— Turnus

January 1, 1970

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Malcolm M. Willcock, "Battle Scenes in the Aeneid" (1983), as quoted in Richard Tarrant, ed., Virgil Aeneid Book XII (Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 222