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Last two feet of line II.355 of the Aeneid

Book II, line 355 of the Aeneid: Sīc animīs iuvenum furor additus. Inde—lupī ceu (Thus rage was added to the spirits of the young men. From there, like wolves [and the sentence continues in the next ...
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"Alēctō" or "Allēctō"?

"Alēctō" is the name of one of the Furies, made surprisingly famous in the Harry Potter books. It seems to come straightforwardly from Greek ă- "not" + lēg- "stop" + -tos "[adjective]", so "...
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