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Browsing named entities in John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2. You can also browse the collection for Actium or search for Actium in all documents.
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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 604 (search)
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 626-731 (search)
On the shield was represented
the various scenes in the life of the
Roman nation: Romulus and Remus with
the wolf, the rape of the Sabines with the
consequent war and treaty, the punishment
of Mettus Fuffetius, Porsenna baffled
by Cocles and Cloelia, Manlius on the Capitol
surprised by the Gauls, the religious
ceremonials of the city, Catiline in Tartarus
and Cato in Elysium, the sea and the battle
of Actium, the rout, and the triumph.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 704 (search)
The introduction of Apollo as a
combatant is in the Homeric spirit, and
perhaps actually suggested, as Heyne
thinks, by Il. 16. 700 foll., where however
Apollo has no weapon but a shield. Propertius
in his poem on the battle of
Actium (El. 5. 6) makes Apollo the priucipal
figure, which is itself a compliment
to Augustus, who wished to be considered
the som of the god. It is needless to say
that such a deux ex machina is much more
in place in a quasi-symbolical picture than
in a narrative poem: still, we may question
the propriety of making Apollo at
once decide a battle where the other
Olympian deities were already engaged on
the side of Rome.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 705 (search)
Desuper, either from the sky or
from his temple on the promontory of
Actium. Eo terrore like quo motu
G. 1. 329, hoc metu 12. 468 note.
Aegyptos Pal. (originally), Rom. corrected,
which it seems worth while to
adopt, for the sake of uniformity with
G. 4. 210.