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Browsing named entities in John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2. You can also browse the collection for Tarracina (Italy) or search for Tarracina (Italy) in all documents.
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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 799 (search)
Circaeum iugum above v. 10.
The iugum is the Circeian promontory
(Dict. G. Mons Circeius). The temple
of Jupiter at Anxur is mentioned by Livy:
see Dict. G. Tarracina. Anxur or Axur
seems to have been a local god identified
with Jupiter, as, according to Serv., Feronia
was with Juno, and hence Virg.
combines the names, making Anxurus a
title of Jupiter. Serv. has an etymological
figment explaining the word as a)/neu cura=s,
the god being represented on coins as a
youth. See Preller, Römische MTarracina. Anxur or Axur
seems to have been a local god identified
with Jupiter, as, according to Serv., Feronia
was with Juno, and hence Virg.
combines the names, making Anxurus a
title of Jupiter. Serv. has an etymological
figment explaining the word as a)/neu cura=s,
the god being represented on coins as a
youth. See Preller, Römische Mythologie,
p. 238. Pal. and originally Gud. have
Anxuris. The people are called Anxurates
by Livy. The construction is irregular
(see on v. 727), the meaning being
qui habitant arva . . . qui habitant qua
iacet.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 800 (search)
Geticis qui praesidet arvis 3.
35. Here the reference seems to be to
the position of the temple on a height. For
the different views taken of the goddess
Feronia see Dict. M. s. v. She appears
again 8. 564 as the mother of a king
Erulus. More than one grove was called
by her name: that meant here was three
miles from Tarracina (Hor. 1 S. 5. 24 foll.),
on the border of the Pontine marshes
(Dict. G. s. v.).