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BOOK I. 305
459. Jam, i. e. by this time. O.
461. Sunt- Iaudi, lW'e, too, lia. "'Q)·th its Oto.1 (: ••. its fitting)
reward8. "Laudi" being in idea the suhject of the proposition, Bua
refers to it. - Laudi. H. 387; A. & S. 22G; B. 821; A. 51, VI.
462. Rerum, 10" "';810rt,me8. Ohjective gen. A. & S. 211, Rem. 12.
It Res" is applied to the oirculllstances and vicissitudes of life, whether
good or bad.
465. Multo.. 11.371, I, 3), (2); A. &; S. 205, Rem. 10; B. 717; A. 52, IV.
466-493. Of tbe eight piotures on the temple w,tlls each two were
companion-pieces, viz.: 1. 'rhe victory of the Trojans under Heotor;
2. The victory of the Greeks under Achillcs. 3. The death of Rhesus;
4. 'rhe death of Trollus. 5. Tbe Trojan matrons suppliants before
tbe statue of Minerva; 6. Priam as a suppliant before Aebilles. 7. The
hattIe of Memnon; 8. The battle of Achilles. Wby were these subjects
chosen for paintings to adorn the temple of J",IO' See line 24.
466. Uti, halO. An interrogative particle, and hence introducing tbe
subj. in dependent clauses.
467,468. Hac, sc. pa,·te. - Phryges, so. luge,·ent. - Fugerent, 1OOl'e
fleeing, while Aeneas was looking at them. So with the other impel"
fects. By making the action expressed in these verbs contemporaneou8
with that in videbat, thc poet indicates the life·Ukeness with which the
paintings brought the scenes before the eyes of his horo.
469. Rhesus was a Thracian prince, an ally of tbe Trojans. "An
oracle had declared that Troy would never be taken, if the snow-white
horses of Rhesus should once drink the wator of the Xanthus, and
feed upon the grass of the Trojan plain. But as soon as Rhesus had
rea.ched tho Trojan territory, and had pitched his tents late at night,
Ulysses and Diomedes penetrnted into his camp, slew Rhesus himself,
and carried off his borses." - Niveis tentoria velis. Homer represent.
the Greeks and Trojans as cncamped, not in tentB, hut in hut. of planks
thatcbed with grass; hut Virgil here, as often, ascribes to tbe Homeric
age the customs of his own. To him, as to us, a "tented field" presents
a more attrnctive picture than a hutted lleld.
472. Ardentes equos, thefienj .teed •. -Avertit. Historical present,
hence followed by the pluperf. in tho next line, (the 1Iwallillg governIng
instead of the form.)
473. Gustassent = gustavissent. - Xanthus (otherwise called Scaroander),
a river of the Troad.
474. Tronus, 0. SOn of Priam. - Amissis armis, i. e. all but his
apear (line 4.78).
476 Trollus has fallon backwards from the car (which of course had
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