[155] Ultro: without waiting to be asked. ‘Tua ad limina’ is understood by Heyne of Aeneas' chamber, the Penates being already in the house. It seems better to say that the actual existence of the gods is separated from their presence in their images. The Penates, like other gods, have their home elsewhere, and come thence to Aeneas.
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