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1859 AD (search for this): book 4, commline 11
us, seems right in explaining it of the shoulders (comp. 11. 644, where armos is used of a man, and see on 11. 640). Dido speaks first of Aeneas' personal appearance, afterwards, v. 13, of his prowess. So we have seen that Aeneas appears Os humerosque Deo similis 1. 589. Comp. also the appearance of Agamemnon Il. 2. 478, o)/mmata kai\ kefalh\n i)/kelos *dii\ terpikerau/nw|, *)/arei+ de\ zw/nhn, ste/rnon de\ *poseida/wni. The meaning then will be that Dido can well believe from Aeneas' mien and stature that his mother was a goddess. With forti thus used comp. forte latus Hor. 1 Ep. 7. 26. Since the above was written (1859), I have been pleased to observe a confirmation of this view in a passage in Mr. Tennyson's Idylls of the King, where Enid, looking at her husband as he lies asleep, breaks out into the exclamation O noble breast and allpuissant arms! a coincidence which will, I trust, show that similar language may be attributed to Dido without involving any imputation of coarseness.