The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . re- NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK IV. 433 viously emptied. (Compare Wagner, Quast. Virg., xxxxi.)—Pan-chcEts adolcscunt ignibus ara. The altars blaze high with Pan-chaean fires, i. e., are heaped up with blazing incense. Equivalentto ara cumulantur thure incenso. (Compare Voss and Jacobs, ad , also, as regards the expression Panclmis ignibus thenote on Georg., ii., 139.) 380-383. Mceonii carchesia Bacchi. Bowls of Mafionian is here equivalent to Lydian, and the reference is tothe wine of Tmolus, a mountain of Lydia. This wine being o
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . re- NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK IV. 433 viously emptied. (Compare Wagner, Quast. Virg., xxxxi.)—Pan-chcEts adolcscunt ignibus ara. The altars blaze high with Pan-chaean fires, i. e., are heaped up with blazing incense. Equivalentto ara cumulantur thure incenso. (Compare Voss and Jacobs, ad , also, as regards the expression Panclmis ignibus thenote on Georg., ii., 139.) 380-383. Mceonii carchesia Bacchi. Bowls of Mafionian is here equivalent to Lydian, and the reference is tothe wine of Tmolus, a mountain of Lydia. This wine being of asuperior quality, is here put for excellent wine in general. (Con-sult note on Georg., ii., 98.) The carchesium was a beaker, or drink-ing-cup, used by the Greeks in very early times. It was slightlycontracted in the middle, and its two handles extended from thetop to the bottom. It was much employed in libations. The an-nexed wood-cut represents a magnificent carchesium, presented byCharles the Simple to the Abbey of St. Oceanumque patrem rcrum. Not in imitation of Homer (II., xiv.,246), as some suppose, but drawn probably from the philosophicdogmas of the Ionic school, and implying that water is the primaryelement of all things. (Consult Hcyne, ad loc.)—Nymphasque so-rores. Her sister-nymphs generally deriving their common originfrom Oceanus.—Centum. A definite for an indefinite number, asin Mn., vi., 786, centum complexa nepotes. The Oceanides, ac-cording to Hesiod, were, as already remarked, 3000 in number.—Servant. Inhabit. Compare verse 459. 384-386. Nectare. Cyrene, as a goddess, drinks nectar, andpours the same upon the flames of the altar; her mortal guest,Aristaeus, pours after her the Maeonian wine. (Consult Voss, adloc.)—Vestam. For ignem.—Subjecta. In a middle sense, for sub-jiriens se. Mounting.—Omine quo. The flame, thrice rising to Oo 434 NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK IV. the roof, gave a favourable omen. (Valpy, ad loc.)—Firmans ani-mum
Size: 1960px × 1275px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthoranth, bookauthorvirgil, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
