loud the interest deepened: his heart beat faster. With a sound as of many thunders, that penetrated to the crowd without, the subterranean door rolled back: the earth trembled: the laurels nodded: smoke and vapour broke commingled forth and, railed below within a hollow of the rock, perchance he caught one glimpse of the marble effigies of Zeus and the dread sisters, one gleam of sacred arms; for one moment saw a steaming chasm, a shaking tripod, above all, a Figure with fever on her check and foam upon her lips, who, fixing a wild eye upon space, tossed her arms aloft in the agony of her soul, and, with a shriek that never left his ear for days, chanted high and quick the dark utterances of the will of Heaven.” ARNOLD PRIZE ESSAY for 1859, pp. 14, 15. INDEX. A. A sanguine, 1. 550; 5. 299 Abas, 3. 286 Ablative, adverbial, 1. 105 | Acidalius, 1. 720 Acies, of the pupil of the eye, 6. 200 Actium, games celebrated at, by Aeneas Actius, adjective, 3. 280 mixture of instrumental and Ad after or according to, 5. 834 modal, 1. 2; 4. 696; 6. 449. 466 modal, 2. 185, 460; 3. 134; 4. 46; 5, 29 3. 614 = = per with accusative, 2. 412 without preposition after words of quality, predicative, without, Accerso and arcesso, 5. 746; 6. 119 of entertaining guests, 3. 353 and infinitive, used to denote of thing along which motion takes place, 1. 524 of the person of whom a request is made, 1. 666 - = and et confused in MSS., 2. 139 quem vocibus usa est est, 1. 64 sidera, 1. 259 quem allocuta superos, 6. 481 not agreeing with the proper Adolere, transitive, 1. 704; 3. 547 Adsum, of gods, 1. 734; 3. 395 Advena, applied to Aeneas, 4. 591 story in Varro, about his de- sequel of his life after settling in his treatment of Dido, Introd. -'s descent into the shades, War- Aeneid, evidence from ancient writers as of, found in some MSS., 1.1 lines quoted by Serv., as found in third book of, its sources and Book V., probably did not form Book VI., inconsistencies observ- Book VI., vv. 1, 2; question as to Aequus, 6. 129 Aër, of mist, 1. 411; 5. 20 20 | of the motion of oars, 5. 211 Air and light identified, 3. 600 Alba, sack of, Virgil supposed to have Alere, of a disease, 4. 2 Aliger, 1. 663 Alii, not preceded by alii, 4. 593 Alius, idiomatically used as including a Alma, applied to the Sibyl, 6. 74, 117 Altaria = arae, 5. 54 touching of, 4. 219; 6. 124 Alveus, of the hollow of a boat, 6. 412 and aether, distinction between, 5. Amittere, in its old sense of dimittere, 2. Aeripes, 6. 802 Aeris campi, 6.887 Aether and aethra, 3. 585 148 Amor, of a love-charm, 4. 516 Amplification, turn for, in Virgil, 1.416; Aetherius, not used strictly by Virgil, 1. Amycus, 5. 373 546 An, simply disjunctive, 1. 329 Anachronismus in Virgil, 1. 182; 2. 492, | Ara sepulchri, of a funeral pile, 6. 177 Annus, of time of year, 6. 311 Ante, pleonastic use of, after prius, 4. 27 omnis, after primus, 2. 40; 5. 492 sumus = πάλαι ἔσμεν, 1. 198 Antemnae, 3. 549 Antenor, 1. 242 Anteros, 4. 520 Antheus, 1. 510 Arae, rocks called, 1. 108 == Archaic forms employed in the Aeneid, Archery-match described, 5. 485 foll. Arctinus and Virgil, p. lxiv. Ardere and audere confused in MSS., 2. Argentum, of silver plate, 1. 640 Argos, for Greece, 2. 95; 6. 838 of the dead placed on the funeral Arrangement of words artificially man- Antiquus, as an epithet of affection, 2. Artes, of works of art, 5. 359 Artus, of the joints, 5. 422 Arx of Aeolus, 1. 56 caeli, 1. 225, 250 Ascanius regarded by Virgil as founder Asper, applied to Carthage, 1. 14 Aspris, syncopated for asperis, 2. 379 Astarte identified with Juno, 1. 15 At, after a conditional protasis, 6. 406 Atque, in continuation of narrative, 4. Attius imitated, 3. 621 Attonita domus, 6. 53 Attraction of antecedent to case of rela- Aurae, of the atmosphere of the lower Byrsa, 1. 367 world, 6. 554 — populares, 6. 816 Auricomus, 6. 141 Bacatum monile, 1. 654 Bacchatus, 3. 125 Canere, of anticipation, 2. 124 of prophetic injunctions, 2. 176 of measured utterance, 4. 14 Capere oculis, capere locum, 1. 396 Banquet to Aeneas in Dido's palace, 1. Capita, of animals numerically, 3. 391: Bidens, 4. 57 5.62 abesse, 5. 651 Carina, 3. 465; 5. 682 Biiugi, form mostly used by Virgil, 2. Carthage, harbour of, artificial, 1. 427 102 and Troy, proposed union of, 4. Cassandra, 2. 403 Cassus lumine, 2. 85 Castra, applied to naval matters, 4. 604 six books of the Aeneid, 1. 91, 409, Causa, with dative, 3. 405; 4. 290 Causae for causa, 1. 8, 414; 2. 105; 3. Cava umbra, 1. 516 |