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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 301 (search)
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 77 (search)
For corniger see on G. 4. 371;
for Hesperidum regnator aquarum comp.
G. 1. 482, Fluviorum rex Eridanus.
The Eridanus deserves the epithet more
for its physical, the Tiber for its historical
greatness. Here again Virg. seems
to have followed Ennius (A. 1. fr. 48),
Postquam consistit fluvius qui est omnibu'
princeps, quoted by Fronto Epist.
de Orat. p. 129 Niebuhr in connexion
with a saying of M. Aurelius, Tiber
amnis et dominus et fluentium circa regnator
undarum. Germ. comp. Dionys.
Perieg. 351, *qu/mbris e)u+rrei/ths potamw=n
basileu/tatos a)/llwn. Fluvius may be
nom. for voc.; but it is at least as probable
that the line is to be taken closely
with celebrabere, the Tiber being celebrated
as the king of rivers.
Pand'rus and Bitias, thunderbolts of war,
Whom Hiera to bold Alcanor bare
On Ida's top, two youths of height and size
Like firs that on their mother mountain rise,
Presuming on their force, the gates unbar,
And of their own accord invite the war.
With fates averse, against their king's command,
Arm'd, on the right and on the left they stand,
And flank the passage: shining steel they wear,
And waving crests above their heads appear.
Thus two tall oaks, that Padus' banks adorn,
Lift up to heav'n their leafy heads unshorn,
And, overpress'd with nature's heavy load,
Dance to the whistling winds, and at each other nod.
In flows a tide of Latians, when they see
The gate set open, and the passage free;
Bold Quercens, with rash Tmarus, rushing on,
Equicolus, that in bright armor shone,
And Haemon first; but soon repuls'd they fly,
Or in the well-defended pass they die.
These with success are fir'd, and those with rage,
And each on equal terms at length ingage.
Drawn from their lines, and issu
The brothers Pandarus and Bitias,
of whom Alcanor was the famous sire,
on Ida born, and whom Iaera bred
in sacred wood of Jove, an oread she,
twin warriors, like their native hills and trees
of stature proud, now burst those portals wide
to them in ward consigned, and sword in hand
challenge the foe to enter. Side by side,
steel-clad, their tall heads in bright crested helms,
to left and right, like towers, the champions stand
as when to skyward, by the gliding waves
of gentle Athesis or Padus wide,
a pair of oaks uprise, and lift in air
their shaggy brows and nodding crests sublime.
In burst the Rutules where the onward way
seemed open wide; Quercens no tarrying knows,
nor proud Aquiculus in well-wrought arms;
Tmarus sweeps on impetuous, and the host
of Haemon, child of Mars. Some routed fly;
some lay their lives-down at the gate. Wild rage
o'erflows each martial breast, and gathered fast
the Trojans rally to one point, and dare
close conflict, or long sallies o'er the plain.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 70 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 11 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 17 (search)