Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Italy” in book 7, commline 86 of John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2:
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There were many oracles of this
kind in Greece, generally in caves, as that
of Trophonius at Lebadea and that of
Amphiaraus at Thebes and Oropus. Virg.
seems to have transferred the custom to
Italy . Heyne remarks that Tiburtus, the
founder of Tibur (mentioned below v. 670),
was the son of Amphiaraus. This again
tends to prove that the oracle mentioned by
Virg. was at or near Tibur. Serv. observ...
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Italy (Italy) | 1,940 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Italy (New York, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Italy (South Carolina, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Italy (Texas, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.