[499] Serv. says, “Quattuor erant apud Romanos quae ad honorificentiam pertinebant, equo desilire, caput aperire, via decedere, adsurgere: hoc etiam praecones magistratus praeeuntes clamare dicebantur.” ‘Regina’ points the contrast, and so intensifies the honour: it also seems to mean that as queen she set the example which the others followed.
This text is part of:
John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of. Virgil. , with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. and Henry Nettleship, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane;. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1876.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.