[743] Aeneas offers sacrifices after supernatural appearances 3. 176 foll., 8. 542 foll. The latter passage (where see note) is closely parallel to this. The words ‘cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignis’ recur 8. 410 in a simile. They must be explained here from the next line, as Aeneas is in his own house, and so would only have household deities about him: otherwise we might have supposed that he revived the sacrificial fire, which had doubtless been burning for his father the day before.
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