[592] Venus seizes the hand with which Aeneas was laying hold of his sword. The circumstance may also have some significance as denoting the fulness of the revelation, unlike that in 1. 408, where Aeneas complains “cur dextrae iungere dextram non datur.” Every one will remember Hom.'s ἔν τ᾽ ἄρα οἱ φῦ χειρί.
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