Vergil: Book V

1. They see smoke from the funeral pyre fire of Dido.

2. Ship racing, running, javelin throw, archery, and boxing

3. Gold, silver, green wreaths, palms, armor, crimson robes

4. All participants received prizes regardless of finish. The better

the finish, the better the prize.

5. 4

6. Cloanthus

7. Gyas, because he threw his pilot Menoetes overboard for not

steering

aggressively enough.

8. Sergestus, because his ship hit the turning rock.

9. Euryalus

10. Nisus was leading, but he slipped and fell in the bloody gore left

over from an animal sacrifice. Nisus then tripped Salius on purpose so

his friend Euryalus could win.

11. Aeneas refuses to change the order of finish, but he gives elegant

prizes to Nisus because he had the misfortune to fall, and Salius

because he was tripped.

12. Aeneas stops the fight. Ancients fought until one opponent could

continue no longer. Sometimes matches ended in death, which is what

Aeneas feared for Dares.

13. Entellus, who celebrates by punching the skull of an ox, killing

it.

14. Eurytion wins by shooting a flying dove out of the air with his

arrow.

15. Aeneas declares Acestes, the king of Sicily, as the winner because

his arrow caught fire in flight and disappeared into the clouds.

16. Ascanius

17. Ascanius

18. Aeneas

19. Nautes

20. Anchises

21. Venus

22. They will make it, but one will die.

23. Palinurus

24. Somnus, the god of sleep, causes Palinurus, the pilot, to fall

asleep at the helm and fall overboard.