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The Art of Virgil's Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

C. E. S. Headlam
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The Classical Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1-2 , February 1920 , pp. 23 - 26
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1920

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page 23 note 1 Cf. ‘(quidquid id est) timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes.’

page 24 note 1 The poems of Tasso are recited to-day in the Italian villages.

page 25 note 1 Here the interwoven alliteration ‘agrestes patrem Geticis praesidet arvis’ is combined in a characteristic manner. So, too, V. 40, ‘veterum non immemor ille parentum gratatur reduces, et gaza laetus agresti excipit.’ Also III. 279, ‘portus ab accessu ventorum immotus, et ingens ipse, sed horrificis iuxta tonat Ae-tna ruinis, in-ter-dumque atram prorumpit ad ae-ther-a. nubem’; and I. 12, ‘urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Car-tha-go, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe ostia.’

page 26 note 1 See also Aen. II. 687–700.