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Browsing named entities in John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1.
Found 527 total hits in 168 results.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 1, commline 292
These four deities are chosen, as
Henry remarks, as typical of the primitive
and golden age of Rome. Vesta has been
mentioned before in a similar connexion
G. 1. 498, Romulus and Remus G. 2.
533. The union of the two latter, as
Heyne observes, symbolizes the end of
civil broils. Numa (Livy 1. 21) established
the worship of Fides. Comp. Hor. Car.
Saec. 57, Iam Fides et Pax et Honor
Pudorque priscus. Cana occurs 5. 744,
as an epithet of Vesta.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 1, commline 373
Macrob. Sat. 3. 2 fancies that
annalis is used with singular propriety,
the annales maxumi at Rome being
made by the Pontifex Maxumus, with
which character Virg. is supposed to
imply that Aeneas is invested. Virg.'s
love of recondite half-allusions to traditions
which he does not expressly adopt is
unquestionable; but where, as here, there
is no more than a possibility of such a reference,
we may perhaps make the question
one of poetical taste, which here
would certainly seem to exclude anything
of the sort. The word doubtless has a
propriety of its own, but it is merely as
suggesting the notion of a minute and
rather tedious narrative.
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 387
Od. 3. 27, ou) ga\r o)i/+w *ou)/ se qew=n
a)e/khti gene/sqai te trafe/men te. In quisquis
es Venus seems to speak as a Tyrian
maiden, to whom the history of Troy is
unknown. Auras vitalis is common in
Lucr., 3. 405, 575., 5. 857., 6. 1227.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 1, commline 426
Heyne and Ribbeck think this
line spurious, as interrupting the enumeration
of buildings; but legislation (iura
dare) is mentioned in nearly the same
connexion 3. 137., 5. 758. Virg. was probably
thinking of the republican institutions
of Rome and her colonies, without
considering how this action of the people
was to be reconciled with the authority
of Dido (comp. v. 507). Sanctus is the
regular epithet of the Roman senate. Iura
magistratusque legunt is a zeugma, iura
constituunt magistratusque legunt, as
Forb. gives it.
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 470
Primo somno is proved by a
number of instances (2. 268., 5. 857) to
mean in their first and deepest sleep; not,
as Wagn. thinks, the first time they slept
at Troy. Prodita, betrayed to him,
and so surprised. Possibly Henry may
be right in making somno instrumental,
betrayed by sleep.
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 473
Gustassent—bibissent. The subj.
denotes the intention of Diomede. Homer
and the Pseudo-Euripides know nothing
of this intention, which Eustathius on
Il. 10. 435, and the Scholiast, followed
by Serv. on this passage, say was to prevent
the accomplishment of an oracle that
if the horses of Rhesus tasted the grass or
water of Troy, Troy should not be taken.
Gustassent—bibissent. The subj.
denotes the intention of Diomede. Homer
and the Pseudo-Euripides know nothing
of this intention, which Eustathius on
Il. 10. 435, and the Scholiast, followed
by Serv. on this passage, say was to prevent
the accomplishment of an oracle that
if the horses of Rhesus tasted the grass or
water of Troy, Troy should not be tak
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 474
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 566
Comp. Catull. 66 (68). 90, Troia
virum et virtutum omnium acerba cinis.
This reference however does not prove, as
Wagn. thinks, that virtutesque virosque
is to be taken as a hendiadys. The natural
sense is the gallant deeds and the
heroes. Tanti incendia belli: comp.
Cic. pro Marcell. 9, belli civilis incendium
salute patriae restinguere. The
same metaphor occurs de Rep. 1. 1 and
elsewhere in Cic. Tanta, the reading before
Heins., has no first-class authority.
In the parallel 7. 222 foll. the siege and
fall of Troy are also expressed by a metaphor,
but it is from a tempest and a
deluge.
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 568
Both this and the preceding line
are intended to rebut the supposition of
ignorance respecting the history of Troy,
not of want of feeling; so that the references
of the older commentators to the
recoil of the sun from the banquet of
Thyestes are quite out of place. The
notion seems to be we do not lie so far
out of the pale of the civilized world—out
of the circuit of the sun, and so out of the
course of fame. Comp. 6. 796, iacet
extra sidera tellus Extra anni Solisque
vias. It would add great force to the
passage if we could suppose Virg. to have
conceived of the sun as the actual bearer
of news to the nations of the earth, as in
the well-known passage in the dying
speech of Ajax, Soph. Aj. 845—849, and
in Od. 8. 270, 302, Aesch. Ag. 632—676.
But it is to be observed that in these passages
the sun is the only possible witness;
and though such a thought may possibly
have crossed the mind of Statius when
imitating this passage in Theb. 1. 683
(Scimus, ait; nec sic aversum Fama Mycenis<
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 1, commline 597
Sola is to be understood loosely,
alone of those not allied to Troy, and so
excluding Helenus and Acestes.