AEneidea Volume 2 ; or Critical, Exegetial, and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...death, is dwelt on, as it is out of place and improper in connexion with the name of the man who. having sacked Tioy and slain with his own hand Hector's aged father, Andromache's kind friend, protector, and sovereign. possessed the bereaved widow by the sole right of conquest. And further still, the words Hectoris AnDbomache, regarded as belonging to the first sentence, have that strong emphasis which belongs to words which at the same time conclude a sentence and commence a line, an emphasis wholly wanting to them when regarded as at one and the same time the beginning of the line and the beginning of the sentence. See Rem. on 2. 246, and compare, only eight linos previously: and exactly as the same Andromache, Seneca. Troad. 980, of Cassandra: VERANE TR FACIE8, VKBVS MIIII NUNTIUS AFKRR8, NATE DEA? Also, 1. 330: "nulla tuai'um audita nihi neque visa sororuin, o, quani te memorem. virgo." Servas.--"In Pyrrhi, et hostis et niulto deterioris viri, matrimonium venisti!" Wagner. On the contrary, I think the question is, conformably to the peculiar force of the word servare, "art thou still the wife of Pyrrhus?" Aeneas had heard, and it was generally believed, that Andromache had become Pyrrhus's concubine, and what he asks is not whether she has become Pyrrhus's, but whether she continues to be Pyrrhus's, he expecting the answer which he receives, viz., that the news heard is true, and that she is now the wife of Helen us. Pyrrhin' Connubia Servas? i. e., Servasne Connubia Pyrrhi?--Pyrrhi not being emphatic, and Xe belonging in the sense not to the word to which it is appended, but to the verb Servas, exactly as 2. 738: "fatone erepta Creusa substitit?" and 10. 668: "tanton' me crimine dignum duxisti?" in both...