[589-593] The whole of this passage is almost a translation of Od. 23. 156—162, which is nearly repeated from Od. 6. 229 foll. Except in employing the agency of Venus, who is not only the mother of Aeneas, but the goddess of beauty, Virg. is as usual less appropriate as well as forcible than Hom. For ‘os humerosque deo similis,’ comp. also the well-known lines, Il. 2. 478, Ὄμματα καὶ κεφαλὴν κ.τ.λ., and see on 4. 11.
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