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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 694 (search)
Shooting stars are mentioned 5.
527. In the present passage Virg. may
have thought of Apoll. R. 4. 294, where a
similar appearance is sent to sanction a
journey. Henry extracts from Saunders'
News-letter of July 25, 1844, an account
of a meteor seen one evening at Constantinople:
An immense meteor, like a
gigantic Congreve rocket, darted with a
rushing noise from east to west. Its lightning
course was marked by a streak of
fire; and after a passage of some 40° or
50°, it burst like a bombshell, but without
detonation, lighting up the hemisphere
with the brilliancy of the noonday sun.
On its disappearance, a white vapour remained
in its track, and was visible for
more than half an hour. Heyne seems
right in connecting multa cum luce
with facem ducens and explaining habens
speciem facis longae