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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 224 (search)
Europae atque Asiae explains uterque orbis, the two divisions of the world, Europe and Asia. This view of the Trojan war as a struggle between Europe and Asia is quite un-Homeric, and arose in Greece after the Persian war. See Hdt. 1, the earlier chapters. With this image comp. Hor. 1 Ep. 2. 7, Graecia Barbariae lento collisa duello. Europae atque Asiae explains uterque orbis, the two divisions of the world, Europe and Asia. This view of the Trojan war as a struggle between Europe and Asia is quite un-Homeric, and arose in Greece after the Persian war. See Hdt. 1, the earlier chapters. With this image comp. Hor. 1 Ep. 2. 7, Graecia Barbariae lento collisa duello.