How much of the tale of aeneas and Dido is due to the imagination of Naevius it is impossible to say; but his treatment of the mythical part of his story,-his introduction of the storm, the complaint of Venus, etc.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
He represents aeneas as having only one ship, built by Mercury,-a limitation which did not suit Virgil's account of the scale on which the war was carried on, after the landing in Italy.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The early chronicles of England generally devoted an appreciable space to matters of romance, the stories of Troy, of aeneas, of Arthur.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos