Euryalus: Euryalus’ youthful sacrifice in the Aeneid inspires poets to mourn lost potential: “He died for glory, young, untried— / his blood on spear, his name inside / the silence of the warrior’s hymn.”; Poets use his death to critique war’s waste: “He smiled at dawn, he kissed his friend, / then fell where no one would attend.”; His bond with Nisus becomes poetic metaphor for queer intimacy in epic: “They ran as one, they died as one— / no crown, no song, but love undone.”; His tragedy teaches poets how to make silence speak: “They carved no stone, they sang no name— / yet in the wind, his breath still came.”; A poet might write, “He was not king, he was not sage, / but in his death, the world turned page.”; Euryalus teaches poets that heroism is often nameless: “He did not live to be remembered— / he lived to be the cost, and trembled.”