[46] Apparently from Il. 18. 364 foll., where Here pleads her dignity as greatest of the goddesses and consort of Zeus, as a reason why she should work her will on the Trojans. ‘Incedo,’ poetically substituted for the simple copula “sum;” with an allusion, of course, to the majesty of Juno's gait. The word itself, as Henry remarks, does not necessarily imply majestic movement; but this notion is gained by attention being directed to the movement at all, in a context like this; at the same time, of course, that it is enforced by the qualifying words ‘divom regina,’ &c. Comp. Prop. 2. 2. 6, “incedit vel Iove digna soror.” It is probable that Prop. had seen Virg.: see on v. 2 above.
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