text:  While the first six books which contain the wanderings of the Trojan exile and the dismal recital of the sack of Troy are an evident imitation of the _Odyssey_ the last six containing the strife in Italy the efforts of the Trojans to gain a footing on the Ausonian shores and the concluding single combat of Turnus and AEneas are as evidently framed upon the model of the _Iliad_