[36] Visus is not, as Ladewig thinks, ‘my sight,’ but, as it is usually taken, ‘the portent,’ which Aeneas asks to have made propitious, “secundus.” ‘Omen levarent’ is a parallel expression: the omen was apparently “gravis:” Aeneas asks to have it made “levis.” “Visa secundent” occurs Sil. 8. 124. ‘Rite,’ as Forb. remarks, is used not of formal applications to the gods, but of the regular and, as it were, due blessings which the gods confer. Comp. 10. 254, “tu rite propinques Augurium.”
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