In Books One and Two of the Aeneid, Vergil re-uses the chief personages from the scene of the Scaean Gate in Homer, Iliad 3.145 ff. Oddest is Ucalegon, whose name meaning "Mr. What-me-worry?" is prefigured by a simile in Iliad 16.384-393 telling how the gods punish kings "who heed not the (warning) eye of the gods." Vergil develops this almost allegorical name/formula of Homer to enrich his own version of the Fall of Troy:
The palace of Deiphobus ascends
In smoky flames, and catches on his friends.
Ucalegon burns next: the seas are bright
With splendor not their own, and shine with Trojan light.
And from the Juvenal, Satire 3:
No, no, I must live where there are no fires, no nightly alarms. Ucalegon below is already shouting for water and shifting his chattels; smoke is pouring out of your third-floor attic, but you know nothing of it; for if the alarm begins in the ground-floor, the last man to burn will be he who has nothing to shelter him from the rain but the tiles, where the gentle doves lay their eggs.
Today, the OED defines "ucalegon" as "a neighbor whose house in on fire." Look it up. (While you're at it, look up "Aldaron.")
Yes, Roy lives here.
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