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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 786 (search)
Sustinet, doubtless on the top of the helmet, galea alta. In the colossal statue of Athene in the Parthenon at Athens she bore a sphinx on the top of her helmet and a griffin on each side. Paus. 1. 24. 5 (Dict. A. Galea). Aetnaeos, like those of Aetna. Horriferos eructans faucibus aestus Lucr. 3.1012. Virg. thought of Il. 6. 182, deino\n a)popnei/ousa puro\s me/nos ai)qome/noio.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 86 (search)
In arce summa would most naturally refer to the Trojan acropolis: comp. 1. 441, lucus in urbe fuit media, and the story of the bay-tree 7. 61, inventam primas cum conderet arces, as also the story of the olive in the acropolis of Athens. Where the passage is assumed to be unfinished, we cannot argue from the context: but it would be undoubtedly possible to understand arce of the mountain, and v. 92 may be pleaded for this. It is a question of probabilities, and one that from the nature of the case must remain to some extent open. Virg. may have intended to make Aeneas get his timber from a sacred grove in the citadel, which might possibly have been conceived of as remaining unburnt, like the Athenian olive, after the sack of the city: but this is mere conjecture without data. Quo refers to lucus.