MISENUS

Misenus was a Hector's trumpeter who left Troy with Aeneas.

. On his voyage for Italy, Misenus—no Elpenor-like wimp but a fortissimus heros (6.169)—had recklessly blown into a conch shell as though summoning troops to battle: "jealous Triton caught and plunged him in the foaming waves amid the rocks" (173-74). Like Odysseus who knew nothing of Elpenor's fall until he saw him in the netherworld, Aeneas was ignorant of Misenus's drowning until he saw his corpse on the beach.
Luke's Eutychus and Homer's Elpenor

Also see:

Aeneid and Vergil feature
Hades' Realm in the Aeneid

Aeneas Book VI Glossary Entries

Aeneas
Anchises
Cerberus
Charon
Deiphobus
Dido
Elysium/Elysian Fields
Furies
Hercules
Jupiter
Lethe
Misenus
Palinurus
Priam
Proserpine
Rhadamanthus
Sibyl
Sisyphus
Vergil

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