[554] Mentem misit, a paraphrase of the Homeric ἐν φρεσὶ θῆκε (not as Heyne says, ἔνθετο θυμόν). ‘Mens’=“consilium,” as in 8. 400, “si bellare paras atque haec tibi mens est:” comp. 1. 676. Virg. is inconsistent here: in v. 557 he says that the idea was started in Aeneas' mind by the sight of the city.
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