Aeneidos liber IV | P. Vergili Maronis Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...i.e. was allowed to rescue him. Venus rescued Aeneas once from Diomede by throwing her arms and her robe around him, //. v. 314: once at the sack of Troy, Aen. ii. 594. It is possible however that Verg. is thinking of the two rescues in the Iliad (by Venus or Aphrodite V. 314, and Neptune or Poseidon XX. 291) regardless of the fact that they were not both due to Venus. 229. 'Pregnant with empire and clamorous with war', a splendid phrase for the future martial destiny of Rome. fore qui regeret is what is called the consecutive or generic subjunctive, 'he should be one to rule'. 231. proderet, 'carry forth'. 233. super ipse sua laude, 'himself for his own fame', order inverted (as in Greek irpos abra% airiv, &c.) to get ipse next to sua. molior as usual of effort, 'he toils amain'. 234. i.e. if he will not be energetic for his own sake, will he 'not be so for his son's? 235. Notice the hiatus spe inimica; so conati imponere G. i. 28r, domo ubi X. 141, pereo hominum Hi. 606: and frequently with Greek words. 236. Ausonius one of the numerous poetic words for 'Italian', 'Roman': the Ausones were originally a tribe on the W. coast of S. Latium. The prolan Ausoniam are the future Romans. Lavinia arva, Latium, from Lavinium, old Latin town. 237. 'Let him sail: this is my resolve, be this the message from me'. This is the simplest translation, and the parallel emphasis on haec, hic supports it: others take it 'be thou the messenger of this (hic nuntius) from me'. summa, 'the main point in brief, so 'my sentence', 'my resolve'. 238--278. Mercury takes his wings and magic staff and flies to Atlas' top: then swoops down to Carthage, where he sees Aeneas building: he delivers his message and disappears. 238. Notice alliteration: six syllables begin with p. 241. par...