[684] Heroum, Aeneas and his friends, who would be stronger than ordinary men. ‘Vires heroum infusaque flumina’ form a sort of hendiadys, as the strength of these heroes would chiefly be shown in flinging large quantities of water. ‘Flumina’ might mean river-water, like “fontibus” 2. 686, or it might simply denote the pouring of the water on the ships, so as in fact to repeat ‘infusa:’ but the former part of the line seems to show that it is used hyperbolically, as if whole rivers were showered down.
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.
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