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The apparition was of preternatural size, and it stood before him in so ethereal and shadow-like a form, and the features beamed upon him with so calm and placid and benignant an expression, as convinced him that the vision was not of this world. Æneas saw at a glance that Creusa's earthly sorrows and sufferings were ended forever. At first he was shocked and terrified at the spectacle.
The apparition of Aphrodite. Her words. His mother's magical protection. He reaches his home. The determination of Anchises. Creusa's entreaties. The plan formed for the escape of the family. The lion's skin. The household gods. Creusa. The whole party proceed towards the gates. Escape from the city. Creusa is lost. Æneas goes back in search of Creusa. He finds that his house has been burned.
These inmates themselves were standing around, distracted with grief and terror, and gazing hopelessly upon the scene of devastation before them. Æneas saw all these things at a glance, and immediately, in a phrensy of excitement, began to call out Creusa's name.
He was, however, prevented from carrying this determination into effect, by Creusa's intervention, who fell down before him at the threshold of the door, almost frantic with excitement and terror, and holding her little son Ascanius with one arm, and clasping her husband's knees with the other, she begged him not to leave them. "Stay and save us," said she; "do not go and throw your life away.
I sinned, then, when as a boy I preferred those empty to those more profitable studies, or rather loved the one and hated the other. "One and one, two"; "two and two, four"; this was to me a hateful singsong: "the wooden horse lined with armed men," and "the burning of Troy," and "Creusa's shade and sad similitude," were the choice spectacle of my vanity.
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