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Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 784
Felix prole virum doubtless refers to the great Roman families, such as those mentioned G. 2. 169 foll., a passage to some extent parallel. Rome is not only the parent of men, but of heroes, as Cybele is the mother of gods. Henry's attempt to understand the passage of Rome as the mother of great nations, with which he aptly compahe passage of Rome as the mother of great nations, with which he aptly compares Byron's parallel of Rome, lone mother of dead empires, to Niobe (Childe Harold, 4. 78, 79), is ingenious, but seems alien to Virg.'s thought, as in that case we should have had felix prole gentium, or something similar. Deum genetrix Berecyntia 9. 82. he passage of Rome as the mother of great nations, with which he aptly compares Byron's parallel of Rome, lone mother of dead empires, to Niobe (Childe Harold, 4. 78, 79), is ingenious, but seems alien to Virg.'s thought, as in that case we should have had felix prole gentium, or something similar. Deum genetrix Berecyntia 9. 82.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 808-835
The kings of Rome are seen in order, and the worthies of the commonwealth, especially Pompey and Caesar, the heroes of the civil war.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 825
Signa, captured by the Gauls at the battle of the Allia, and recovered by Camillus when he conquered the enemy, according to the Roman account, on their leaving Rome.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 836-853
Other republican heroes pass in review. Anchises declares the greatness of Rome to lie not in art or science, but in war and the practice of government.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 836
The conquerors of Greece are now introduced, that being naturally one of the chief achievements of Rome in the eye of a Trojan. Comp. 1. 283 foll. The victor of Corinth is of course L. Mummius (Dict. Biog.), who had the surname of Achaicus. Triumphata Corintho like triumphatas gentes G. 3. 33. The use of the past participle is not strictly consistent with the order of time, the expression being in fact a mixture of devicta Corintho aget currum, and triumphans de Corintho aget currum. The triumph of Mummius was peculiarly famous for the splendour of the booty carried in procession. Horace uses it as a synonym for a stage pageant, 2 Ep. 1. 193, Captivum portatur ebur, captiva Corinthus.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 847
Est rhetoricus locus, remarks Serv. of this celebrated passage. The concessive fut., as Forb. calls it, is used elsewhere, as in Hor. 1 Od. 7. 1, 3 Od. 23. 13, instead of the more usual subj. Here it is more appropriate, as being the language of prophecy. Aera of bronze statues Hor. 2 Ep. 1. 240. Spirantia signa G. 3. 34. The reference throughout is to the Greeks, the natural rivals of Rome. Mollius expresses grace and delicacy, with some reference perhaps, as Forb. thinks, to giving the soft appearance of flesh.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 849
irg. should have conceded to Greece superiority in oratory, and in some cases even insinuate that he must have been jealous of the fame of Cicero. But Virg.'s concession is made in a liberal and magnificent spirit, in order that the real fame of his countrymen as warriors and statesmen may appear greater: and it is not likely that he thought of the number of individual reputations that the position thus assumed compelled him to sacrifice. In the general proposition, that the real greatness of Rome lay in acts of war and policy, all moderns will agree with him: and whether he has specified oratory among the pursuits in which other nations are allowed to excel or has left it to be inferred is a matter of little consequence. He would doubtless have specified poetry with equal or greater readiness, if he had not felt that the very mention of it would have implied a latent egotism. Caeli meatus like caeli vias G. 2. 477, though there the addition of et sidera softens the expression. Henry u
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 6, commline 875
Latinos avos, the shades of the heroes of Latium or Lavinium, who are supposed either to look forward to the future glory of one who is now a shade along with them, or to be conscious while he is on earth and they themselves in darkness. The future tollet seems in favour of the latter. We may suppose them to inquire about him from new comers, as Agamemnon in Od. 11 inquires about Orestes. Virg. has adroitly varied his expression, so as to make us think in this sentence of the ancestors of the Romans, Trojan or Latin, in the next of Rome itself.
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