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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">In Aeneid 1.588-593, Venus tarts the hero up
so he will be more appealing to<BR>Dido:<BR>Restitit Aeneas claraque in luce
refulsit,<BR>os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoram<BR>caesariem nato
genetrix lumenque iuventae<BR>purpureum et laetos oculis adflarat
honores:<BR>quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut ubi flavo<BR>argentum Pariusve
lapis circumdatur auro.<BR>And again, as Simon Cauchi has noted, at 6.636-641,
in a phrase in which<BR>Virgil draws on the Homeric description of Olympus at
Od.6.41-49, although,<BR>in the Homeric passage, the light is white/dazzling,
brilliant (45).<BR>Paul Roche<BR>University of
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Apologies if anyone has mentioned this before, but I have just
accidentally come across an online recording of Professor Wilfried
Stroh reading Aeneid Book IV at:
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/aeneid/
I would be interested in others views on this.
Patrick Roper
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