interest from the very middle of the combat to heaven, to be present at diplomatic arrangements there, the combat was not sufficiently interesting and important to constitute the closing, winding-up, last scene of the Aeneis.

768-817.

LYNCEA-UNDIS

VAR. LECT. (vs. 786).

DEORUM I Med. (Foggini) III Serv. (Lion); Ven. 1470; Aldus (1514); P. Manut.; Heyne; Jahn; Wagn. (1832, 1861); Thiel (quoting Liv. 3. 17: "" 'si vos urbis, Quirites, si vestri nulla cura tangit; at vos veremini deos vestros, ab hostibus captos "); Ribb.

PARENTUM

15. 663.

III Wakefield (quoting 5. 39, 10. 280, and Hom. Il.

LYNCEA TENDENTEM CONTRA (vs. 768).-Facing up to him, making towards him, making for him. Compare 9. 795:

"nec tendere contra

ille quidem hoc cupiens, potis est per tela virosque;"

Tacit. Annal. 4. 3: "Nam Drusus impatiens aemuli, et animo commotior, orto forte iurgio, intenderat Seiano manus, et contra tendentis os verberaverat."

UNGUERE TELA MANU (vs. 773), theme; FERRUMQUE ARMARE VENENO, variation.

CUI CARMINA SEMPER ET CITHARAE CORDI, theme; NUMEROSQUE INTENDERE NERVIS, variation (vv. 775, 776).

EQUOS (vs. 777).-See Rem. on "caput acris equi," 1. 448. TANTAS STRAGES IMPUNE PER URBEM EDIDERIT? theme; IUVENUM PRIMOS TOT MISERIT ORCO ? variation (vv. 784, 785). ET FLUVIUM PETERE, AC PARTEM, QUAE CINGITUR (vs. 790).-See Rem. 9. 469.

HENRY, AENEIDEA, VOL. III.

64

AMNI

ACERBA TUENS (vs. 794)." Acerbe tuens," Schirach. No, but looking bitter things, just as we say, looking daggers, speaking daggers; and so 12. 398, "acerba fremens," growling bitter things, or, as we might say, growling daggers. Compare Aeschyl. Sept. c. Theb. 53 : λεοντων ως Αρη δεδορκότων.

MOLLIBUS EXTULIT UNDIS (vs. 817).—Anthol. Palat. (Dübner), Append. Planud. Epigr. 249 :

δερκόμενος ξοανον καλον τόδε, την Αφροδίταν,

ανθρωφ, ιλασκευ, πλατιον εξόμενος

αίνει δε Γλυκεραν Διονυσίου, α μ' ανέθηκε
πορφυρέας απαλον κυμα παρ' ηΐονος.

END OF BOOK IX.