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BOOK 1. 283
visible. Aeneas thanks Dido for her generosity (579-612). Dido hids
him welcome, sends food to the crews at the ships, nnd orders a splendid
banquet in the palace (614-642). Aeneas sends for bis son, Ascanius
(643- 656). Venus, substituting Cupid for Ascanius, inflames Queen
Dido with a passionate love for her guest (657-722). The banquet in
Dido's palace. The timo passes in song and talk, till Dido begs Aeneas
to tell the whole story of the fall of Troy and his seven years of wandering
(699-\'56).
1- 3. Arma - litora. Ioill9 of at'nIO ana the mall, ,"hoft"ot, front the
eaaoto of T,'oy, by fate an exile, cam. to Italy ana the Lavi",'an .ho,·eo.­
Italiam and lit or a, terminal accusatives after a verb of motion, the
preposition i71 (which would be inserted in the best prose except before
names of towns) being omitted by poetical usage. H. 379, 4; A. & S.
237, Relu. 5, (c.); B.948.-Fat!l. II. 414; A. & S. 247; B. 873;
A. 54, I. - Profugus. H. 363; A. & S. 204; B. 622; A. 46. - Lavinia,
pronounced La-,Jin.ya. (H. 669, II. 3; A. & S. 306, (3); n. 1519, 3.)
The epithct "Lavin ian" is applied by anticipation to the shores where
the city Lavinium was afterwardB built by Aeneas.
3. lIla, the one; in apposition with qui. - Jactatus and passus are
participles agreeing with ille. - Terris et alto, on lanet auet Oil the
deep; the preposition in, is omitted be foro tbese ablatives of place, hy
& frequent pootieallieense similar to tbat in the omission of tbe preposition
hefore the accusatives in the second and third lines. Terri. is pnrposely
plural, (lit., lalldB,) Aeneas, while seeking a settlement, having
been driven about from country to country.
4. Superum, of the godB; gen. plural for ."peror"",. H. 45, 5, (4);
A. & S. 53; B. 66; A. 10, 6. - Memorem, ever mindful, and therefore
relentless. Well rendered by Conington in his translation of oaeva.
71Jemorem JUllon'is iram, "fell Juno's 'ttnjorgetti,tJg bate."
5, 6. Dum conder et urhem inferretque deos Latio, while he was
striving to found a city aud bring (his) gods into Latinm. The idea
of otriv;n9 to found, otriv;"g to bring, is implied in the subjunctivc after
dum. H. 522, II.; A. & S. 263, 4, (1); B. ] 238; A. 62, II. 2. W. mys
"the subjunctive here expresscs ,riBl! and ilwUnation.'· S. gil-es COltderet
a potcntial force: "till he was able to found." Others tr. "until
he founded." Sce nofmann on Latin Temporal Particles.
6. Latio, dat., where in prose ill with the aCC. would be used. H. 379,
5; A. & S. 225, IV., Rem. 2; B. 837; A. 51, II. n. - Genus unde Latinum,
whence arose the Lati" race. It was tbe tradition that Aeneas
united the AborigineB, whom he found in Italy, with the Trojans, under
the name" Latins"; that his son Ascanius founded Alba (" and the
Alban nobles," Alballique patreB); and that from his descendants arose
the principal founders of Rome.