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Browsing named entities in John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2.
Found 1,207 total hits in 358 results.
1770 AD (search for this): book 10, commline 166
Massicus a name taken from a
mountain, as Sulmo, Clarus, and
Anxur from towns (9. 412., 10. 126,
545), Ufens from a river 7. 745.
Princeps as leader of the squadron: see
on v. 254 below. The tiger is the parasemon
or figure-head at the prow from which
the ship received its name: these parasema
were often figures of animals and monsters:
see 5. 116—123, where the ships that race
for the prize are called respectively Pristis,
Chimaera, Centaur, and Scylla: and comp.
below vv. 195, 209. Serv.'s note solent
naves vocabula accipere a pictura tutelarum
confuses the parasemon and
tutela: which in Roman ships, if not in
Greek (see Acts 28. 11), appear to have
been distinct. The tutela was a figure
of the god that protected the ship, and
was generally placed in the stern: see Ov.
1 Trist. 10. 1. Heroid. 16. 112. Pers. 6.
30. On the whole subject see a paper by
Enschede De Tutelis et insignibus navium
inserted in Ruhnken's Opuscula,
anno 1770
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 10, commline 167
About Clusium and its old alliance
with Rome see Livy 5. 35 (Heyne, Excursus
ad h. 1.). Serv. oddly enough
places Clusium near Mount Massicus in
his zeal to account for the name of the
leader v. 166. Another prince from Clusium,
Osinius, is mentioned v. 655 below.
Arcadia (Greece) (search for this): book 8, commline 168
Gossrau states, but without citing
his authority, that Anchises was honoured
in Arcadia and elsewhere as the patron of
horses. If this is so, Virg. may have
alluded to it here, as perhaps in 3. 470,
537. The separation of aurea from
frena can hardly be ascribed to any other
cause than poetical variety and metrical
convenience, though there may be some
force in the epithet in its present position
as showing the store which Pallas set by
the gift. Gossrau is wrong in saying that
frena bina aurea would have been non
satis Latinum: but it is true nevertheless
that the Augustan poets seem generally to
avoid connecting an epithet with a substantive
that has any other adjunct. See
on G. 2. 147.
Palatine (Italy) (search for this): book 7, commline 170
This edifice combines the temple
and the senate-house. Virg. has also employed
it as a sort of museum of Roman
antiquities. Some have thought that he
had in his mind the temple of Apollo built
by Augustus close to his own house on the
Palatine, where he often convoked the
Senate. Embassies in particular were constantly
received in temples, especially in
that of Bellona, which was outside the
walls, Livy 30. 21, Festus s. v. Senacula.
See Lersch § 15. Augustus (connected
with augurium) is nearly equivalent
to sanctus, Ov. F. 1. 609. Sublimibus
alta columnis Ov. M. 2. 1.
1699 AD (search for this): book 7, commline 175
For hae Rom. has haec,
which may be plural. Sacrae epulae,
otherwise epulum, a banquet given in
honour of a god, to attend to which was
the business of the epulones. Ariete
caeso, after the sacrifice. Perpetuis
mensis is explained by Heyne as long
tables, at which they sat in an unbroken
row (comp. perpetui tergo bovis 8.
183, perpetuas ollas, a continuous row
of ollae in a Roman tomb, Fabretti
Inscr. p. 11 ed. 1699, a reference suggested
by Mr. Long), opposed to the
triclinia. The practice appears to be
primitive, as well as considere instead of
accumbere. Ov. F. 6. 305, Ante focos
olim scamnis considere longis Mos erat, et
mensae credere adesse deos. There seems
no need to suppose an allusion to the daily
entertainment of privileged persons as in
a Prytaneum: the reference is rather to
an occasional sacrificial banquet.
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 7, commline 177
Ex ordine, in a row, between
the pillars of the portico. They are not in
the order of succession. See vv. 45 foll.
Professor Seeley, Introduction to Livy p.
19, notices this passage as a remarkable
instance of Euhemerism: the gods of Italy
being identified with ancient kings.
Tiber (Italy) (search for this): book 8, commline 18-35
Meantime Aeneas, distracted
with care, lies down to sleep, when the
god of the Tiber appears to him.
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 10, commline 183
The story of the hospitium
between Rome and Caere is given in Livy
5. 50. Caerete domo like unde domo
8. 114 (Cerda). The Minio (not the same
as the Caeritis amnis 8. 597) is mentioned
by Rutilius 1. 279, paulisper
fugimus litus Minione vadosum.
Europe (search for this): book 7, commline 184
Captivi pendent currus. The
ancient chariots were so light that Diomed
(Il. 10. 505) thinks of carrying off
that of Rhesus on his shoulder. Captivi
of things 2. 765. The securis, battleaxe,
was the weapon of Asiatic nations
(Amazonia securis Hor. 4 Od. 4. 20)
and of the primitive nations of Europe,
in whose barrows it is often found. It is
the weapon of the Italian shepherds, below
v. 510., 12. 306, and of Camilla 11. 696.
Curvae from the shape of the axe-head.