wanderings
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Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno 's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
At a banquet in Book 2, Aeneas tells the story of the sack of Troy, the death of his wife, and his escape, to the enthralled Carthaginians, while in Book 3 he recounts to them his wanderings over the Mediterranean in search of a suitable new home.
An avid traveler, her wanderings have carried her to Ireland, the Netherlands, China, Thailand, and Nepal, where she narrowly survived being chased by a elephant.
From a learned traveler Arslan once inquired: "Didst thou ever, in thy wanderings, see a fort as strong as this?"
Moses recalls the stations at which the Israelites halted during their forty years' wanderings and instructs the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites and destroy their idols.
Closely questioned, he adds that he had recently been in Thesprotia and had learned something there of Odysseus's recent wanderings.