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“You must go out on a starry night and walk for about half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old cosmology… to look out on the night sky with modern eyes is like looking out over a sea that fades away into mist, or looking about one in a trackless forest- trees forever and no horizon. To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building.”

This translation is pretty gripping. Book four moved quickly. It’s interesting to see Aeneas choosing duty to his fate while Dido’s death is considered untimely and outside of her fate.