[589] For ‘cum’ several inferior MSS. give ‘tum,’ which would be neater if the preceding passage were regarded as an interpolation. ‘Non ante oculis tam clara:’ Aeneas had never before seen her so bright, so completely in her true goddess form. We need not ask on what former occasions she is likely to have appeared to him. ‘Videndam’ = “obtulit ut viderem,” as “discere laudanda magistro,” Pers. 3. 46, = “discere ut laudaret magister:” see Madv. § 422. Venus appears to check Aeneas from killing Helen, as Pallas, Il. 1. 193 foll., to check Achilles from killing Agamemnon.
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