Books I. Ii of the Aeneid of Vergil, Ed. with Notes by F. Storr

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Atque hic ingentem comitum adfluxisse novorum invenio admirans numerum, matresque, virosque, collectam exsilio pubem, miserabile volgus. undique convenere, animis opibusque parati, 800 in quascumque velim pelago deducere terras. iamque iugis summae surgebat Lucifer Idae ducebatque diem, Danaique obsessa tenebant limina portarum, nec spes opis ulla dabatur. cessi, et sublato montes genitore petivi. st NOTES TO AENEID--BOOK II. 1-13. Aeneas begins the story of the fall of Troy. 1 Notice the change of tense--'All were instantly hushed and kept their gaze intently fixed.' With this sense of ora tenere cf. viii. 520, defixi ora tenebant. In Geor. iv. 483 it means 'to be silent.' 3 Infandum Predicative. 4 ut eruerint Interrogatio obliqua after renovare dolorem, which implies recordando. Cf. canebat uti, etc., Eel. vi. 30. lamentabile Proleptic. Cf. 'The Norman set his foot upon the conquered shore.' 5 quaeque... et quorum In loose apposition to dolorem. 6 quorum pars magna fui Cf. x. 426, Laususpars ingens belli; Ovid, Her. iii. 46, et fueram patriae pars ego magna meae; and Tennyson, Ulvsses, 'I am a part of all that I have met.' fando Temporal, 'in telling.' Cf. Livy viii. 17, Consules populando usque ad moenia atque urbem pervenerunt. A rare usage of the gerund except in V. See /. 361, iii. 481, iv. 333. 7 The Myrmidons were the soldiers of Achilles; the Dolopes, a tribe of Phthia, also followed Achilles under their chieftain Phoenix. They are chosen because their leaders were the bitterest foes of Troy. Ulixi See on Achilli, i. 30. 8 et iam A further reason for not pursuing the story. 9 praecipitat caelo 'Is dropping from the sky;' intransitive, as in ix. 670, nimbi in vada praecipitant. cadentia For prose occidentia. 10 amor cognoscere For...