AENEIDEA. OR CRITICAL, EXEGETICAL, AND AESTHETICAL REMARKS ON THE AENEIS, WITH A PERSONAL COLLATION OF ALL THE FIRST CLASS MSS., UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED SECOND CLASS MSS., AND ALL THE AENEIDEA. II.* 1. CONTICUERE OMNES INTENTIQUE ORA TENEBANT Commentators and translators alike understand this verse to express by its first clause the silence, by its second the attention -manifested by the fixed countenances of the audience-with which Aeneas was heard: "Et tacuerunt et desiderio ducebantur audiendi," Donatus. "Aut ora intuebantur loquentis, aut immobiles vultus habebant, ut Georg. 4. 483: Tenuitque inhians tria Cerberus ora,' i. e. immobilia habuit; aut intenti tenebant, habebant, ut sit figura, et intelligamus ora intenta habebant," Serv. "INTENTI ORA TENEBANT, ornate: erant intenti, habebant vultus et oculos intentos et conversos in Aeneam," Heyne. Επει δε και σχημα προσωπου μάλιστα προσοχης εμφασιν εχει, ουδ' εκείνο παρέλιπε, του μη και οφθαλμοις αυτοίς, οσα και As to the source of the second book, see Macrob. Saturn. 5. 2, who introduces Eustathius saying: "Dicturumne me putatis ea quae vulgo nota sunt? quod Theocritum sibi fecerit pastoralis operis auctorem, ruralis Hesiodum? et quod in ipsis Georgicis, tempestatis serenitatisque signa de Arati Phaenomenis traxerit? vel quod eversionem Troiae, cum Sinone suo, et equo ligneo, ceterisque omnibus, quae librum secundum faciunt, a Pisandro paene ad verbum transcripserit ?” HENKY, AENEIDEA, VOL. II. 1 |