Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera Or the Works of Virgil With Copious Notes I
Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera Or the Works of Virgil With Copious Notes I
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403. Ambrosial : an adj. From ambrosia, the food of the gods, according to the poets : perfumed with ambrosia. Pert ice : in the sense of capite. Spiravere : in the sense of emiserunt. 405. Patuit vera Dea. The poet here mentions four characteristics of divinity ; her rosy-coloured neck her ambrosial locks her long flowing robe, (which she had gathered up in a knot to prevent discovery, ) and her gait, or motion. It was the opi- nion of the ancients that their divinities did not move upon the g...round, but glided along- the surface with a regular motion. By these signs, ^Eneas knew her to be Venus, whom he had hitherto taken for a Lybian virgin. Voct : in the sense of verbis. 408. Ludis: in the sense of decipis. Imaginibus: forms figures. Veras: true real not dissembled. 411. Gradienles: eos is understood. The poet here hath in his view that passage of the Odyssey, where Pallas spreads a veil of air around Ulysses, and renders him invi- sible. 412. Circumfadit. The parts ot verb are separated by Tmesis, for the sake of the verse : she surrounded them with the thick garment of a cloud, that no one 184 P.
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