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Browsing named entities in John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2. You can also browse the collection for Danube or search for Danube in all documents.
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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 604 (search)
The allusions which follow are
probably all to the foreign wars of Augustus.
The Getae represent the tribes on the
Danube, whose incursions disturbed that
frontier of the empire (G. 2. 497), and
against whom Lentulus made a successful
expedition about A.U.C. 729. Catullus
(11. 5. foll.) mentions the Hyrcanians and
Arabians together with the Sacae and
Parthians as representatives of the East,
and perhaps the Hyrcani and Arabians are
used in the same general way here. A
special expedition was however made into
Arabia Felix by Aelius Gallus, governor of
Egypt under Augustus, in A.U.C. 728—30,
according to Mommsen, Mon. Ancyr. p.
74. The rest relates to the real diplomatic
success and imaginary warlike victories of
Augustus in the East; to his protection of
Tiridates, the defeated pretender to the
throne of Parthia, who fled to him when
he was in Syria after the battle of Actium,
and to his recovery of the standards and
captive soldiers of Crassus through the
fears of the newly restored k