[636] An adaptation of Il. 5. 449 foll., where Apollo, having taken Aeneas out of the fray and placed him in Pergamus, makes an image to resemble him, about which the Greeks and Trojans continue to fight. Αὐτὰρ ὁ εἴδωλον τεῦξ᾽ ἀργυρότοξος Ἀπόλλων, Αὐτῷ τ᾽ Αἰνείᾳ ἴκελον καὶ τεύχεσι τοῖον, &c. ‘Cava’ unsubstantial: comp. 6. 292, “Et ni docta comes tenuis sine corpore vitas Admoneat volitare cavae sub imagine formae,” &c. “Nube cava” 1. 516., 5. 810. ‘Sine viribus’ may be a translation of ἀμενηνός, the Homeric epithet of the dead. Comp. Aesch. Prom. 547, “ὀλιγοδρανίαν ἄκικυν ἰσόνειρον”, and Shakspeare, Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 4, “Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.”
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