[461] We need hardly connect this line with the preceding, so as to conceive of Aurora as pouring the sun upon the earth. It is safer to say that as in the preceding lines we have had the extreme of personification, here we have the other extreme, the sun being regarded not as an agent but as a thing. ‘Rebus luce retectis:’ comp. 4. 119, “radiisque retexerit orbem” (note), 6. 272, “rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.”
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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. and Henry Nettleship, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane;. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1876.
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