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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 119 (search)
Urbis opus is a singular expression
for urbis instar. Stat. Theb. 6. 86
imitates it, calling a funeral pile montis
opus, if the reading is certain, and again
Silv. 2. 2. 31, Inde per obliquas erepit
porticus arces, Urbis opus, which however
the commentators explain opus urbe dignum.
Gossrau comp. Cic. Verr. 5. 34,
Quae (navis) si in praedonum pugna
versaretur, urbis instar habere inter illos
piraticos myoparones videretur. Cerda
comp. 8. 691, of the battle of Actium,
pelago credas innare revolsas Cycladas,
aut montis concurrere montibus altos,
where however see note. Versus of a tier
of oars, Livy 23. 30. Virg. has been
guilty of an anachronism, as triremes
were not invented till the historic period
(Thuc. 1. 13), about B.C. 700, at the same
time that he must have failed to impress a
notion of vastness upon his readers, who
had known ships of ten tiers at the battle
of Actium, and had heard of others of sixteen,
thirty, and even forty. See Dict. A.
Ships.