As defined in the dictionary, defeat it is a win, a victory over in a battle or other contest, overcome or beat and loss is defined as a detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get. Another is acception, it is accepting fate that encounters us. These three words, are one of the things that revolved around the epic tale of Virgil, Aeneid.
In book twelve, it explains the defeat of Romans to the Trojans. In which here, it tells how Turnus was killed. Having the Romans, official loss and defeat and the epic's resolution. But before that, we could tell that Turnus haven't accepted the fact that they loss. They are defeated. It affected his ego and I think made him mad. After the different problems they encountered, still they finished they're race. From the Trojan War, through the different twist to what that Gods have for their future, up to the battle between Aeneas and Turnus. All of them are worth it.
The poem ends with a somber description of Turnus’s death. Virgil does not narrate the epic’s true resolution, the supposedly happy marriage between Aeneas and Lavinia and the initiation of the project of building Rome. Virgil is again imitating Homer. Lliadconcludes with the death of Hector, the great Trojan enemy of the Greek hero Achilles. Then, Virgil wants his Roman audience to feel that they themselves, not Aeneas’s exploits, are the glorious conclusion to this epic story.
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