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Page 107
... arms . Impulit arma , he clashed his arms , the poet says , using a metaphor which takes us back to Juno herself dashing open the gates of war in VII , 621. Her action there has a very similar result as all Ausonia , mounted on ...
... arms . Impulit arma , he clashed his arms , the poet says , using a metaphor which takes us back to Juno herself dashing open the gates of war in VII , 621. Her action there has a very similar result as all Ausonia , mounted on ...
Page 136
... arms for conflict in a way hitherto not her wont . The theme of appeal for arms is as central in her subsequent speech to Vulcan as her position as Aeneas ' mother ( arma rogavi , line 376 ; arma rogo , line 383 ) . The tone of the ...
... arms for conflict in a way hitherto not her wont . The theme of appeal for arms is as central in her subsequent speech to Vulcan as her position as Aeneas ' mother ( arma rogavi , line 376 ; arma rogo , line 383 ) . The tone of the ...
Page 137
... arms , it is the combina- tion of Venus and Vulcan which is all - important . As he wrote this little episode , Virgil clearly had in mind Lucretius ' description of the embrace of Venus and Mars in- corporated in the proem to the first ...
... arms , it is the combina- tion of Venus and Vulcan which is all - important . As he wrote this little episode , Virgil clearly had in mind Lucretius ' description of the embrace of Venus and Mars in- corporated in the proem to the first ...
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