Reviving the "Virgil in single tone" question in Lolita

Periton mal'chika is not a translation of "a lad's perineum" (preferred by Virgil) and seems to hint at Singleton (accented on the last syllable in Russian, the surname Singleton rhymes with ton (tone) and periton, a word invented by VN).

Gaston Godin (Humbert's friend and chess partner at Beardsley who loves little boys) brings to mind the gods mentioned by Virgil in The Aeneid (Book IX, Lines 184–185):

Do the gods light this fire in our hearts

or does each man's mad desire become his god?

Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale,

an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?

A Roman burial vault in Naples is said to be the tomb of Virgil. Gaston Godin got involved in a sale histoire, in Naples of all places.

Nouvelles promenades archéologiques : Horace et Virgile (1886) is a book by Gaston Boissier (1823-1908), a French classical scholar.

In the surname Godin there is Odin. In the prologue of the medieval Icelandic Edda, Snorri Sturluson had identified Troy with Asgard, and Aeneas with Vidar, son of Odin and survivor of Ragnarok.

Describing his life in Paris, Humbert mentions uranists and quotes his Eliot pastiche:

The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car. In my sanitary relations with women I was practical, ironical and brisk. While a college student, in London and Paris, paid ladies sufficed me. My studies were meticulous and intense, although not particularly fruitful. At first, I planned to take a degree in psychiatry as many manqué talents do; but I was even more manqué than that; a peculiar exhaustion, I am so oppressed, doctor, set in; and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds. Paris suited me. I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals. I composed pastiches:

... Fräulein von Kulp
may turn, her hand upon the door;
I will not follow her. Nor Fresca. Nor
that Gull.

A paper of mine entitled “The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey” was chuckled over by the six or seven scholars who read it. I launched upon an “Histoire abrégé de la poesie anglaise ” for a prominent publishing firm, and then started to compile that manual of French literature for English-speaking students (with comparisons drawn from English writers) which was to occupy me throughout the fortiesand the last volume of which was almost ready for press by the time of my arrest. (1.5)

A pederast, Gaston Godin is Humbert's chess partner. At the beginning of A Game of Chess (Part II of The Waste Land) T. S. Eliot makes a reference to The Aeneid:

The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,

Glowed on the marble, where the glass

Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines

From which a golden Cupidon peeped out

(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)

Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra

Reflecting light upon the table as

The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,

From satin cases poured in rich profusion;

In vials of ivory and coloured glass

Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,

Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused

And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air

That freshened from the window, these ascended

In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,

Flung their smoke into the laquearia,

Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.

Eliot’s footnote on a single word, “laquearia,” sends us to the night in Virgil’s Aeneid when Dido, queen of Carthage, falls in love with Trojan hero Aeneas. He and his fellow refugees have just survived a hurricane that brought them to Carthage, where Aeneas discovers that he is a celebrity. The Carthaginians know all about the famous war between the Trojans and the Greeks, so they welcome their guests, and Dido throws a banquet. That night at the party, while Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy—giant wooden horse, fire everywhere, wishing to fight to the death but instructed by the gods to depart and found a city—the Carthaginian queen falls in love with him.

Humbert meets Lolita and falls in love with her, because on the eve McCoo's house (where Humbert was supposed to stay) has burnt down to the ground. When Humbert visits Lolita (now married to Dick Schiller and big with child) in Coalmont, she tells him that the luxurious rancho where Quilty lived with his friends has burnt down to the ground. Kassandra is a ballad by Schiller. A daughter of Priam (the last king of Troy), Cassandra was an Apollonian prophetess in Homer's The Iliad. As a prophetess, she was given the divine ability to see into the future. However, Apollo had cursed her so that no one would believe her accurate visions. Humbert's aunt Sybil correctly predicted her own death:

My mother’s elder sister, Sybil, whom a cousin of my father’s had married and then neglected, served in my immediate family as a kind of unpaid governess and housekeeper. Somebody told me later that she had been in love with my father, and that he had lightheartedly taken advantage of it one rainy day and forgotten it by the time the weather cleared. I was extremely fond of her, despite the rigidity - the fatal rigidity - of some of her rules. Perhaps she wanted to make of me, in the fullness of time, a better widower than my father. Aunt Sybil had pink-rimmed azure eyes and a waxen complexion. She wrote poetry. She was poetically superstitious. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and did. Her husband, a great traveler in perfumes, spent most of his time in America, where eventually he founded a firm and acquired a bit of real estate. (1.2)

In A Game of Chess T. S. Eliot mentions the lady's strange synthetic perfumes. In The Aeneid (Book Six) Aeneas comes to Cumae to consult the Sibyl, who tells him that he can enter the underworld only if he offers to Proserpina a golden bough. The Golden Bough (1834) is a painting by Turner. Gaston Godin is an amateur painter.

"By the time the weather cleared" brings to mind a good weather that in an ode addressed to Virgil (who was going to visit Greece to revise The Aeneid) Horace wishes to his friend. In his poem Davydovu ("To Davydov," 1824) Pushkin mentions this fact and calls Virgil "the consumptive father of a rather thin Aeneid:"

Нельзя, мой толстый Аристипп:
Хоть я люблю твои беседы,
Твой милый нрав, твой милый хрип,
Твой вкус и жирные обеды,
Но не могу с тобою плыть
К брегам полуденной Тавриды.
Прошу меня не позабыть,
Любимец Вакха и Киприды!
Когда чахоточный отец
Немного тощей Энеиды
Пускался в море наконец,
Ему Гораций, умный льстец,
Прислал торжественную оду,
Где другу Августов певец
Сулил хорошую погоду.
Но льстивых од я не пишу;
Ты не в чахотке, славу богу:
У неба я тебе прошу
Лишь аппетита на дорогу.