[81] See on v. 43. The doors are supposed to fly open simultaneously with the opening of the Sibyl's mouth. ‘Iamque’ placed as in 3. 588. ‘Patuere,’ the perf. of instantaneous action, G. 1. 49 &c. Aeneas is in the temple, the Sibyl in the ‘adytum,’ the cavern beyond, and the sound of the prophecy is carried to him through the open doors; but the hundred passages form a picture which, as I have observed on v. 43, is hard to realize, and which scarcely seems appropriate to the circumstances of the narrative.
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