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Heaney nods from time to time—there is a tiresome instance of needless repetition in “And then they saw him, Misenus, on a dry stretch of beach/they came up and saw the son of Aeolus”—and he would doubtless have continued to polish had he lived.

Virgil tells us, that Misenus was buried, in the clothes he commonly wore.

For those Lines may as well be applied to the Trumpet of Virgil, as of Misenus.

The conference in the first two books is supposed to be held at Cicero’s Cuman villa, which was situated on the hills of old Cumæ, and commanded a prospect of the Campi Phlegræi, the bay of Puteoli, with its islands, the Portus Misenus the harbour of the Roman fleet, and Baiæ, the retreat of the most wealthy patricians.

One of the representations in the Ilian table in the Capitoline Museum exhibits the figures of Aeneas, of his son Ascanius, of the trumpeter Misenus, and of Anchises carrying the sacred images, just as they are on the point of embarking on board their ship.