The Aeneïd of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical And Explanatory, a ...
The Aeneïd of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical And Explanatory, a ...
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238-241. UH dclapsa, 6lc. *' When (the Harpies), having glided down, had caused the noise of their pinions to resound along the vrinding shores." LiteraUy, " had given forth a noise along," d^. We have followed Heyne in referring sonilum to the clangor alarum mentioned in line 226. — Dat signum specula, dec. ** Misenus gives the signal with his hollow brass from a lofty place of observation." Misonns was the trumpeter of iGneas. — JEre cava. With his brazen trumpet. — Et kova previa tentant. **... And attempt an unusual kind of combat." More literally, ** novel combats," i e., each one sin- gUng out a harpy in this strange encounter. — Obsesnas pehtgiferro. Digitized by Google 452 BOOK THIRD. &c '* To wound, (iiamely), with the sted these filthy hirds of ocean." For the peculiar force of/ctdare, consult note on Ime 28d, book it — Pelagi volucres. The Harpies are so called because ia- habiting isles of ocean. 24a-244. Gelerique fugd, dec. '* And having, in rapid flight, shot upward to the stars." Literally, *
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