[123] “Nunc repeto” 3. 184. ‘Anchises’ introduces a difficulty. Celaeno (3. 255) prophesies that they should be driven to eat their tables, and Helenus (ib. 394) confirms it, with an assurance that the fates should find a solution. The words of Celaeno, “ambesas subigat malis absumere mensas,” are almost exactly the same as those which are here ascribed to Anchises, and she connects the incident with the foundation of the city, though she does not make it a token that they have found their home. The discrepancy is only one out of several which exist between the Third Book and other parts of the poem. Some have fancied that this was one of the things revealed by Anchises to Aeneas in Elysium (6. 890 foll.), but ‘reliquit’ points to predictions delivered in life, perhaps altered or bequeathed on the deathbed. ‘Ignota ad litora’ is again inconsistent with the speech of Celaeno, who expressly mentions Italy. “Fatorum arcana” 1. 262, apparently = “arcana fata.”
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