What happened to Lancey?

When I first finished reading "Translations," I didn't fully understand what happened to Captain Lancey. I thought that Manus may have seen Lancey and Maire kissing and he got mad. I thought that Manus might have killed him, but after class today I started thinking that maybe the Donnelly twins did something to him. They have more of a character for mischief than Manus does. Maybe Manus told them about what he saw and they decided to do something about it. There is no evidence as to what actually happened to Captain Lancey, but for some reason I think that someone killed him. The play ended when the English threatened to kill the Irish if Lancey was not found. It seems like the military have had more to do in Ireland than to just rename the country. They had ulterior motives.

And what was with that poem at the end? I looked it up and it's called "The Aeneid," written by a man called Virgil. It's an epic poem that tells the story of a Trojan that traveled to Italy and eventually became an ancestor to the Romans. The second half of the poems are like Homer's Iliad.

"Urbs antiqua fuit - there was an ancient city which, 'tis said, Juno loved above all the lands. And it was the goddess's aim and cherished hope that here should be the capital of all nations-should the fates perchance allow that. Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers - a people late regem belloque superbum - kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Libya's downfall."

If you read between the lines, you can see similarities between the poem and the play. It's like Libya is Ireland and the Trojans are the English.

For more information go to: http://www.book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Aeneid