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Latium (Italy) (search for this): book 7, commline 37
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 7, commline 37
This invocation marks a great
epoch in the poem, and the commencement
of a new class of characters and legends.
The first words are from Apoll. R. 3. 1,
*ei) d' a)/ge nu=n, *)eratw/, para/ q' i(/staso, kai/
moi e)/nispe. But Erato, as the Muse of
Love, is more appropriately invoked to
rehearse the loves of Jason and Medea
than the present theme, though Germ.
thinks that the war in Italy may be said
to have been kindled by the love of Lavinia's
suitors, tanquam flabello. Virg.,
by the help of the Muse, will describe the
posture of affairs (tempora rerum) and
the condition of Latium (quis Latio antiquo
fuerit status) when Aeneas arrived,
and will trace the origin of the war between
Aeneas and the Latins (primae
revocabo exordia pugnae). Qui reges
seems to be said generally, including
Latinus and his ancestors, Turnus, and
perhaps the other Italian princes. With
tempora rerum comp. the expression
reipublicae tempus, which occurs more
than once in Cic. (Off. 3. 24 &c.), though
tempora he