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Aeneidea, or, Critical, exegetical, and aesthetical remarks on the Aeneis
Aeneidea or Critical exegetical and aesthetical remarks on the Aeneis Author:James Henry Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: densed air. See Cic. de Nat. Dear. 2. 39 : " Exinde mari finiti- mus aer die et nocte distinguitur: isque turn fusus et extenuatus sublime fertur; turn autem con... more »cretus, in nubes cogitur." Ovid, Met. 15. 250: " ignis enim detaum spissatus in aera transit; hie in aquai." 28-52. FLECTE—MYCENAE Flecte Viam Velis (28).—Shift sail so as to change the direction of the vessel; in English nautical language, "tack." The word Velis shows that they were using their sails, and therefore still at some distance from land. Had they been becalmed, and rowing, as at 7. 27, the command to change course would have been either " Flecte Viam remis," or simply Flecte Viam, and so 7. 35 : "Jlectere iter sociis torraequc advertore proras imperat, et laetus fluvio snccedit opaco." There is always some degree, however little, of the notion of turning out of the direct line in the Latin fleet ere, ex. gr., 1. 158: . . . " aequora postquam prospiciens genitor, caeloque invectus aperto, //I i-I equos, curruque volana datlora secundo." Neptune does not drive in a direct line onward, but bends or turns his course so as to take in a wide space of his domains. The same is true of the corresponding Greek term Ka/jirrtiv, as Eurip. Hipp. 87 (ed. Stokes): rtos St i; aiiuiiC. uairtf ij/'/atuii', jBiot/, " May I bend the course of my life," i.e., " incline the course of my life"—phrases which themselves indicate more or less ofdeviation from the straight forward line. Compare Juv. 1. 19 : " cur tamen hoc potius libeat decurrere campo per quern magnus equos Auruncae/fj;i alumnus, si vacat, et placidi rationem admittitis, edam," and see Rem. on "flectit equos," 1. 160. Demittere (vs. 29), with Heyne, Wagner, and Conington, not, with the Heinsii and Ribbeck, Dimittere. Going to ...« less