AN ACROSTIC IN AENEID 11.902–6
| Autor: | Paul K. Hosle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | The Classical Quarterly. 70:908-910 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6844 0009-8388 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0009838820000750 |
| Popis: | Very shortly before the end of Book 11 of the Aeneid, Turnus, hearing of Camilla's death, is forced to abandon his ambush in order to fall back to the city. Just after he leaves the wooded gorge, Aeneas passes through it unscathed with his company. Both then head toward the city walls. Virgil marks this near miss of the two commanders by an acrostic (Aen. 11.901–7):ille furens (et saeua Iouis sic numina pellunt)deserit obsessos collis, nemora aspera linquit.uix e conspectu exierat campumque tenebat,cum pater Aeneas saltus ingressus apertosexsuperatque iugum siluaque euadit opaca.sic ambo ad muros rapidi totoque ferunturagmine nec longis inter se passibus absunt. |
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