[353] Forb. refers to Heins. on Ov. M. 13. 216 to show that ‘admonet’ is a word specially used of dream-warnings. ‘Turbidus’ (= “commotus”), when used of persons, is generally applied to the excitement of rage, as 9. 57., 11. 742; but it may express other excitements, such as that of fear, 11. 814. Here perhaps our word ‘agitated’ would give its meaning, so that it would answer nearly to “tua tristis imago” in the parallel passage 6. 695. The apparition of Anchises is perhaps separable from Anchises himself, as would appear from the passage just referred to; but in any case anger would scarcely suit the relation between Aeneas and his father, and Anchises' feeling at this time would doubtless be that which he is himself made to express (6. 694), “Quam metui, ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent!”
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