Aeneas At the Site of Rome; Observations On the Eighth book of the Aeneid
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iv. 9. 59 Aeneas at the Site of Rome brating the glories of Hercules and in singing his praises: " Consonat omne nemus strepitu collesque resultant." Lines 233 ff. : " stabat acuta silex praecisis undique saxis speluncae dorso insurgens, altissima visu, dirarum nidis domus opportuna volucrum. banc, ut prona iugo laevum incumbebat ad amnem, dexter in adversum nitens concussit et imis avulsam solvit radicibus, inde repente impulit; impulsu quo maximus intonat aether, dissultant ripae refluitque e...xterritus amnis." What was the picture in Virgil's mind when he wrote these lines ? Dr. Henry seems to me to have entirely misapprehended it; but the question which he begins by asking is an essential one, and I will begin by answering it myself. The river, Virgil says, was on the left. On the left of what ? Right and left, used of inanimate objects, must be relative to some human being ; that human being may be an imaginary person looking up or down the stream, or it may be an actual person — e.g., I myself on the Thames Embankment, or Hercules in the story looking up or down the Tiber.
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