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BOOK III. 343
330. Orestes, already frantic with the consciousness of having mur·
dered his mother, (8cel. Fm'i;s agilallls,) and still more maddened at
the loss of IIermione, who had heen hetrothed (0 him, (ereptae cOlliltyis,)
slew Pyrrhus at Delphi, while he was worsbipping nt the altar erected to
his father Achilles (palrias aras)." Fr.
336. Jugis, to the ?l/olIltlai,..lop.. II. 386 j A. & S. 224; B. 826.
339. Quid, sc. facil, how fares 1 "Whnt of the boy Ascauius? "-Ves.
aitur, etc., "a?la doe. she b,·eatl .. Ihe vital ai,', IOho for Ihee, tohell Troy
(was) alrendy -." But here some look or sign on tbe part of Aeneas
indicates to Andromacbe that Creiisa is no more j and she breaks off
her inquiry after the motber, to return to tho boy. Trojn may be pre·
sumed to bo ab!. abso!. with some pnrticiple wbich was to follow in the
unfinished sentence. Another reading (340) Que",.
341. Tamen, still, in spite of her death. - Cura = desideriulII.
343. Avunculus. Rector was Cretisa's brother.
348-9. Multum, used adverbially.-Magnis, sc. Pergamis.
351. It was a custom of the Romans, returning afcer a long absenoe,
to embrace nnd kiss the door.posts of their houses. Cf. II. 490.
353. The cloisters (pOl·ticI/8) seem to have surrounded the hall (atlla),
which appears to be used in Virg., in the case of a palace, as equivalent
to a/rillm. C.
360. Qui sentis, i. e. thou, whosc senses are alive to.
362-3. Religio, responses or auspioes; prospera, favorable.
368. Sequens (= si sequar), protasis, possim, apodosis. H. 503, 2,
1); A. &; S. 261, Rem. 4.
376. Jupiter draws tbe decrees of fate like lots out of the urn; "olvil
vice8, 1. e. ordains the succession of events j is fJertitur ordo, such an
order of things is revolving, (i. e. is on the point of being ful1illed in thy
fortunes.)
381-3. Ital., the Italy, (tbat part tbou art to seek j) obj. of d1·vidit.tonga
- terris, al a long distallce, a f,"' and palhles. journey separate.
from our far lands, i. e. from Epirus. Forb. and C. Others: 101lg;s
dill. lerri •. 'divides by a long stretch of country.'
386. Inferni lacus, i .•. Avernus. - Circe is oalled Aeacaa from Aca
in Col chis.
398. Graiis, poeticnl dat. of the agent. H. 388, 3; A. &; S. 225, II.
401. Hic -muro, here 1'S that little Petelia, the city of Ihe Alehaoea'l
leader Philnetetes, Bltpportcd by its wall.
403. Steterint, shall have anchored.
405. Velare, illlperat. pass., veil thyself. The covering of the head
during SAcrifice was a. distinctively Roman custom, the Greeks sacri.
ficing with the hcad uncovcred.-Comas, ace. of specifioation.