Virgil, Aeneid 2: A Commentary (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

673 Pages·2008·3.03 MB·English

by  Nicholas Horsfall

Virgil, Aeneid 2
Mnemosyne
Supplements
Monographs on Greek and
Roman Language and Literature
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G.J. Boter
A. Chaniotis
K.M. Coleman
I.J.F. de Jong
P.H. Schrijvers
VOLUME299
Virgil, Aeneid 2
A Commentary
By
Nicholas Horsfall
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2008
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CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................... ix
Introduction.......................................................... xiii
Adlectorem.......................................................... xxix
Bibliography ......................................................... xxxiii
TextandTranslation ................................................ 1
Commentary......................................................... 45
Appendix 1.TheHelen-episode(567–88) ......................... 553
Appendix 2.Stesichorus,theTabulaIliacaCapitolinaand
Aeneid2 ............................................................ 587
Latinindex........................................................... 593
Englishindex ........................................................ 613
Indexofnames ...................................................... 627

PREFACE
Four may be enough: I am most grateful to Irene van Rossum (Brill)
for her continuing and constructive support through the writing of the
commentaries on Aen.2 and Aen.3; now, though, Prof. Jan Bremmer
(Groningen) and I are planning a commentaryon Aen.6, not,primarily,
for scholars (as my quartet have been, declaredly) but rather for under-
graduateandgraduatereaders.
ItismorethanfortyyearssinceItookAeneidasaspecialpaperinPt.
IIatCambridge. Thingshavechanged:thenRolandAustin’s Aen.2was
just out (cf. further, Introduction, §8(xxvf.), and Harry Sandbach lec-
tured to us on the basis of Heinze, VeT. Wonderful book; good lectures,
particularly on bk.6 (and fun classes too) but the first ed. of Heinze
was of 1902 and there was something slightly, and consciously, palaeo-
zoic about the whole undertaking; I am not sure that Pöschl (Eng. tr.
1962), Otis (1964) and Putnam (1966) were so much as mentioned.
By 1970, or so, Margaret Hubbard and I gave some classes together
at St. Anne’s on Aen., and I hope we had at least got the century
right, some of the time. Things have changed. David Packard (PHI
5.3), Prof. N. Holzberg (updating of Suerbaum) and Joe Farrell (on-
line La Cerda) are notable ben-e-factors of our studies. Not to mention
Gallica for the provision of some periodicals on line, and of course
TLL on CD-ROM (though the publishers have hardly rushed to rem-
edy certain flaws that emerged in the using). And not only electronic
resources. This commentary, like its immediate predecessor, was writ-
ten, from choice, just under two hundred miles north of Edinburgh;
I offer my heartfelt and continuing thanks to Ailsa and Biscuit (six
legs between them, in answer to the curious) for their unequal, though
equally essential, contributions to a perfect working environment. The
remote address made the on-line purchase of quite a lot of books, and
the acquisition of several dozen articles, mostly from JSTOR, through
the offices of kind friends, indispensable, as the lacunae in my booty
from Oxford (vd. infra) became apparent. I hope that my list of their
names is adequate; it still seems extraordinary that an obscure article
could reach me in a remote glen of Wester Ross three days after I