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The Technique of Virgil's Verse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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page 61 note 1 Cf. Aen. I. 24, ‘pr-ima quod ad T-ro-iam p-ro caris,’ etc. ; and 11. 1, 2, ‘T-ro-iae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato pro-fugus,’ etc.
page 61 note 2 Cf. V. 861, ‘se sustulit ales ad auras’ II. 84; V. 417 ‘idque pio sedet Aeneae, probet auctor Ancestes, | aequemus pugnas.’
page 61 note 3 Except when resumptive, and equivalent merely to a pronoun. Cf. ‘misit Sa turn ia Iuno | audacem ad Turn-um’ at the beginning Book X. with 11. 4 and 6.
page 62 note 1 A successive alliteration, ‘ardens agit aequore toto,’ aids the emphasis. The assonances, ‘ingeninans … sinistra,’ are as in VI. 10 f., quoted in the next note.
page 62 note 2 The pause in the grammatical structure is bridged by alliteration (‘fuit, fidusque’), cf. in example (n), below, ‘Ilionei monitu, et multum,’ etc. Otherwise this is effected by assonance, as Aen. I. 13, ‘Car-tha-go, Italiam contra,’ etc., VI. 10, ‘secreta Sibyllae, | an-trum inm-an-e petit; magnam cui mentem an-imumque | Delius inspirat.’ Cf. the arrangement of V. 831, 2; and 11. 200, 1 (‘vos … vos, sc-op-ulos., Cycl-op-ia’)
page 62 note 3 Cf. II. 44, ‘aut ul-la putatis | dona carere dolis Danaum ? sic notus Ul-ixes ? X. 333, ‘non ul-lum dextera frustra | torserit in Rut-ul-os’
page 62 note 4 ‘Re-menso’ takes up ‘re-petant, re-ducant,’ which precede. The passage continues (II. 182): ‘im-p(ro)visi aderunt, ita. digerit omina Calchas. | hanc p (ro) p-alladio moniti,p(ro) numine laeso, | ef-figiem statuere, n-ef-as quae triste piaret.’
page 62 note 5 Cf. II. 105, ‘tum vero ar-demus scit-ar-iet c(qu)aerere causas; | ign-ai -i scelerum tantorum, ar-tisque pelasgae; | prosequitur pavitans, et ficto pectore fatur' where ‘tantorum … pavitans’ balance in sound, as ‘linguis. infit’ do here.
page 63 note 1 The lines which follow exhibit the linking of the clauses by assonance, and the taking up of the proper name : ‘summa domin-ar-ier ar-ce; | praeterea, castis adolet dum alt-ar-ia taedis, ut iuxta genitorem adstat La-vi-nia. vi-rgo | vi-sa., nefas! longis comprendere crinibus ignem.
page 63 note 2 With ‘membris et mole valens, cf. ‘et molem mirantur equi,’ quoted above. An intensification of method, suggested by the subject-matter of the passage, is evident. Cf. XII. 700:
c(qu)antus At -thos au-t c(qu)antus Er-ic(yx) au-t ipse corus-c-is | cum fremit il-ic-ibus c(qu)antus, g-au-det que nivali | v-er-tic-e, se at-tollens p-at-er A-ppenninus a-d au-ras.
page 64 note 1 Compare ‘milite con-plent. est in con-spectu Tenedos,’ quoted above.
page 64 note 2 Cf. II. 145:
ipse viro pri-mus manicas a-tque a-rcta levari vincla iubet Pri-am-us, dictisque ita fatur
am-icis,
quisquis es, am-issos hinc iam obliviscere Graios.