#lausus

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SWEET DREAM AS LAUSUS

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“prince” ass prince

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i love lausus because he’s one of the few characters in the aeneid that wasn’t a product of his environment. with a father like mezentius you’d assume that he’d learn from his ways at a young age yet he turned out to be a pretty good person morally, and i’d even go as far as to say that mezentius was learning from lausus rather than the other way around. love in the aeneid brings out the worst in the best people but also the best in the worst

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lausus saving mezentius… like scipio saving his father…

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doomed youths and ascanius chibis + extra doodles

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lausus was also the name of romulus and remus’ dead uncle btw

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something something about pallas lausus and ascanius representing the cruelty of the gods and nisus and euryalus representing the cruelty of humanity

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herodotus stating that in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons vs evander stating that a father should not outlive his son and mezentius asking if a father should be saved by the wounds of his son