John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 301

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[301] Charon apparently wears a scarf or chlamys, which is twisted round the shoulder (Dict. Ant. ‘Chlamys,’ ‘Nodus’). Cerda shows that this was a pilot's costume from

“Facito uti venias ornatu ornatus huc nauclerico,
* * * * * * *
Palliolum habeas ferrugineum, nam is colos thalassicu'st:
Id connexum in humero laevo, expapillato brachio;
. . . . adsimulato quasi gubernator sies.
”
Plaut. Mil. 4. 4. 41 foll.:

Nodus is to be taken strictly, not as implying a “fibula” or brooch, which would hardly be in keeping with the rest of Charon's trim. Some early correctors read ‘nudo,’ which Pier. rightly rejects.

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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