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Venus’s ambrosial robe

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Venus’s ambrosial robe
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The garment first used to shield Aeneas and then pierced when Venus is wounded.

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fair garment

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ambrosial robe

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Venus’s fair garment is folded around Aeneas as protection from spears.

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“She protected him by covering him with a fold of her own fair garment, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him.”
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The Graces-woven ambrosial robe is torn through by Diomed’s spear.

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“The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound;”

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“the ambrosial robe”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 28

Aeneas sprang from his chariot armed with shield and spear, fearing lest the Achaeans should carry off the body. He bestrode it as a lion in the pride of strength, with shield and spear before him and a cry of battle on his lips resolute to kill the first that should dare face him. But the son of Tydeus caught up a mighty stone, so huge and great that as men now are it would take two to lift it; nevertheless he bore it aloft with ease unaided, and with this he struck Aeneas on the groin where the hip turns in the joint that is called the ‘cup-bone.’ The stone crushed this joint, and broke both the sinews, while its jagged edges tore away all the flesh. The hero fell on his knees, and propped himself with his hand resting on the ground till the darkness of night fell upon his eyes. And now Aeneas, king of men, would have perished then and there, had not his mother, Jove’s daughter Venus, who had conceived him by Anchises when he was herding cattle, been quick to mark, and thrown her two white arms about the body of her dear son. She protected him by covering him with a fold of her own fair garment, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him.