Steve

And I was so proud of my miss of your idea. :>(

Let me try again.

I do not think that the narrator meant that he had "used" her body as a
feminist might construe the word.  I may be wrong again but I do not think
that range of meaning was generally available to TSE.  Assuming your
position to be correct  would also indicate a degree of sensitivity to women
that many would not assign to the early TSE.

I totally agree with the way you are extending Aeneas into the poem.  TSE
wants the reader to do this.   Remember, although, he does feel like a worm,
Aeneas does not spend much time romantically worrying about Dido.

And I must admit to another mistake.  In an earlier message I said that the
Navajo numbered 500,000.  The 2000 census counted 250,000 on about 27,000
square miles about three times the size of the island of Sicily.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM