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Both armies from their bloody work desist

DMI number:
31671
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Aeneid.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Both armies from their bloody work desist
Last Line:
And shakes the sounding forest on his sides
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Epic, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
Ancient history, Mythology, and War
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
From Dryden's Aeneis Book 12. Calif. VI (1988): 794-5.
Translated from:
Virgil
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.286
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden