| A | B |
|---|
| Decii | consuls who died in wars against the Latins and Samnites |
| Torquatus | took a necklace from a Gaul; had his son executed |
| Drusi | defeated Hasdrubal |
| Camillus | defeated the Gauls |
| Mummius | defeated Corinth |
| Paulus | defeated Macedonians |
| Cato | censor; "Carthage must be destroyed!" |
| Cossus | killed an enemy leader |
| Gracchi | brothers who led land reforms and were executed |
| Scipio | defeated Hannibal in 2nd Punic War |
| Fabricius | famous for refusing a bribe |
| Fabius Maximus | "delaying" general (tricked Hannibal by refusing to fight) |
| Marcellus #1 | killed king of the Gauls; defeated Hnnibal at Nola |
| Marcellus #2 | Augustus' nephew and son-in-law; died young |
| Gate of horn | reincarnated souls pass through this |
| Gate of ivory | false dreams and Aeneas pass through this |
| Cumae | Sibyl's city |
| Caieta | stop for the Trojans in Italy after Cumae |
| Brutus | one of the first two consuls; ancestor of the Brutus who killed J. Caesar |
| fasces | rods/ax that symbolized power of Roman state |
| Tarquins | Etruscan Kings that ruled Rome (last 3 kings) |
| Ancus Marcius | 4th King of Rome |
| Tullus Hostilius | 3rd King of Rome |
| Numa Pompilius | 2nd King of Rome |
| Romulus | 1st King of Rome |
| Alcides | Hercules |
| Cybele | great mother goddess |
| Augustus Caesar | Vergil's emperor and patron |
| Julius Caesar | His gens (family name) comes from Aeneas' son |
| Ilia | aka Rhea Silvia; Romulus' mother; raped by Mars |
| Silvius Aeneas | Aeneas' son; could be his son by Lavinia or another name for Iulus/Ascanius |
| Numitor | grandfather of Romulus and Remus who was exiled from Alba Longa by his brother |
| mille annos | amount of time souls have to wait to be reincarnated |
| centum annos | amount of time unburied souls have to wait to enter the Underworld |
| the SOMA is a SEMA | the body is a tomb |
| Orphic, Pythagorean, Platonic, Stoic | philosophies that believed in reincarnation |
| Theseus and Pirithous | tried to carry off Persephone |
| Danaids | killed their husbands; had to carry pails of water with holes |
| Elysium | where Aeneas finds Anchises |
| Lethe | river of forgetfulness; souls drink from it to forget their past life |
| Sisyphus | tried to cheat death; had to roll boulder up hill |
| Tantalus | tried to trick gods into eating his son; was always hungry but couldn't reach food/drink |
| Aloidas | tried to get to Mt. Olympus by heaping mountains up |
| Salmoneus | tried to imitate Jupiter's lightning bolt |
| Ixion | tied to a fiery wheel |
| Tityos | stretched across a field; vulture ate out liver |
| Titans | lost the war against the Olympians; live in Tartarus |
| Rhadamanthus | judge in Tartarus |
| Tisiphone | head Fury; her throne is at entrance to Tartarus |
| Phlegethon | fiery river around Tartarus |
| Helen | betrayed her husband Deiphobus |
| Deiphobus | Trojan who looked the same way in the Underworld as when he died, wounds and all |
| Dido | inhabits the Campi Lugentes |
| Minos | judge of the Underworld (not in Tartarus) |
| untimely dead | infants, innocent men who were executed, suicides |
| Cerberus | quieted by the Sibyl with a drug |
| Charon | complained about Aeneas' "weight" |
| Palinurus | tells Aeneas how he fell overboard and washed up on shore 3 days later only to be killed by barbarians |
| Styx | you must be buried to cross this |
| Cocytus | river of wailing |
| Acheron | river of woe |
| somnia | dreams |
| centauri | half man half horses |
| scyllae | dog women monster things |
| briareus | 100-hander |
| belua Lernae | Hydra |
| chimaera | lion/goat/serpent thing |
| gorgons | snake haired monsters; medusa and her sisters |
| harpies | bird women who stole food |
| Deiphobe | aka Sibyl |
| Eumenides | aka Furies (euphemism) |
| Proserpina | Queen of the Underworld |
| Pluto | King of the Underworld |
| Luctus | grief |
| morbi | diseases |
| senectus | old age |
| metus | fear |
| fames | hunger |
| letum | death |
| sopor | sleep |
| dis, orcus, hades, erebus | names for the Underworld |
| bellum | war |
