[Linenotes: 158. +mare quod supra alluit+ = the _mare superum_ = the Adriatic. +mare quod infra alluit+ = the _mare inferum_ = the Tuscan or Tyrrhenian (Τυρῥηνός = Tuscan) sea. 159. +Lari+ = Lake Larius (= _Como_), N. of Milan. 160. +Benace+ = Lake Benacus (= _Garda_), W. of Verona. +fremitu marino+ = _with roar as of the sea_. 168. +adsuetum malo+ = _trained in hardship_. --Mackail. +Volscosque verutos+ = _and the Volscian spearmen (light infantry)_. +verutos+ = armed with the _verutum_ (or _veru_ = lit. a _spit_), a _javelin_. 170. +Scipiadas+, Greek patronymic form = Lat. _Scīpĭōnēs_. +maxime Caesar+ = Augustus. 172-173. After Actium, 31 B.C., Augustus spent more than a year in reducing and settling the East (+imbellem Indum+) whose forces had been wielded by Antony. --Sidgwick. 173. +Saturnia tellus+, in allusion to Saturn’s reign in Latium in the age of gold. 174-175. +tibi res ... fontes+ = _for thee I enter on themes of ancient glory and skill_ (i.e. in agriculture) _and dare to unseal_ (+recludere+) _the sacred springs_; +res laudis+, the theme of the _Aeneid_, +res artis+, of the _Georgics_. 176. +Ascraeum carmen+ = _the song of Ascra_, i.e. the _Georgics_, because Hesiod (author of _Works and Days_ to which Vergil is much indebted) was born at Ascra, near Helicon, in Boeotia. --S.]
_The Vision of Anchises.--Rome’s Heroes._
‘Ille triumphata Capitolia ad alta Corintho Victor aget currum, caesis insignis Achivis. Eruet ille Argos Agamemnoniasque Mycenas, Ipsumque Aeaciden, genus armipotentis Achilli, Ultus avos Troiae, templa et temerata Minervae. 840 Quis te, magne Cato, tacitum, aut te, Cosse, relinquat? Quis Gracchi genus, aut geminos, duo fulmina belli, Scipiadas, cladem Libyae, parvoque potentem Fabricium, vel te sulco, Serrane, serentem? Quo fessum rapitis, Fabii? Tu Maximus ille es, 845 Unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem.’ . . . . . . . ‘Aspice, ut insignis spoliis Marcellus opimis 855 Ingreditur, victorque viros supereminet omnes! Hic rem Romanam, magno turbante tumultu, Sistet, eques sternet Poenos Gallumque rebellem, Tertiaque arma patri suspendet capta Quirino.’
[Linenotes: 836. +Ille+ = L. Mummius Achaicus, destroyed Corinth, 146 B.C. 838. +Ille+ = L. Aemilius Paullus, crushed Perseus (= +Aeaciden+ l. 839) at Pydna, 168 B.C. 841. +Cosse+ = Cornelius Cossus, won Spolia Opima a second time, 428 B.C. 842. +Gracchi genus+, e.g. (i.) Tib. Sempronius Gracchus, twice Consul 215, 212 B.C., in 2nd Punic War; (ii.) T. S. G. distinguished in Spain; (iii.) the two great Tribunes, Tiberius and Gaius. 843. +Scipiadas+ = (i.) Scipio Africanus Maior, victor at Zama, 202 B.C.; (ii.) Scipio Africanus Minor, destroyed Carthage, 146 B.C. 844. +Fabricium+, Consul 282 and 278 B.C. in war with Pyrrhus. Proof against bribes. +Serrane+ = Regulus, victor at Ecnomus, 256 B.C., a prisoner, 255 B.C. True to his word. 845. +Maximus+ = Q. Fabius M. Cunctator, Dictator after Cannae. The Shield of Rome. 846. From the Annals of Ennius (239-169 B.C.), often quoted. 855. +Marcellus+, five times Consul. Took Syracuse 212 B.C. The Sword of Rome. 857. +magno ... tumultu+ = _when a great upheaving shakes it_. --Page. +Tumultus+ (as Cic. tells us) is specially used of a rising in Italy or in Gaul, as it was close to Italy. (Elsewhere = _bellum_.) 858. +Sistet, ... sternet.+ Notice the antithesis and alliteration (assonance).]