[790] The language closely follows 1. 133, 134, “Iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, Venti, Miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?” Venus' language however has a slightly more colloquial air than Neptune's, as she speaks under feminine excitement and refers to an event which, being some time past, need not be characterized so exactly. In 1. 134, as there remarked, Neptune may refer to the mountains of waves: Venus evidently means no more than ‘What a coil she made!’ ‘Maria omnia caelo miscuit’ is one form of the proverbial expression, the other form of which is given in 1. 133. Juv. combines the two 2. 25, “Quis caelum terris non misceat et mare caelo?” In another passage he has “clames licet et mare caelo Confundas” (6. 283).
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.
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