Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Exile
T.R. Glover, Springs of Hellas and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945), p. 77:
The footnote is incorrect — the quotation occurs in the 8th book, not the 10th.
Vergil, Aeneid 8.333-336 (tr. J.W. Mackail):
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And the Aeneid is all exiles together. Dido has left Tyre and founded Carthage. Evander, an exquisite figure of simple greatness, tells a similar tale—Me pulsum patria pelagique extrema petentemBut the whole theme of the book is exile—campos ubi Troja fuit—and the promise of a new world won by a man whose life was shattered and his home destroyed—an exile, but a life of victory.
Fortuna omnipotens et ineluctabile fatum
His posuere locis, matrisque egere tremenda
Carmentis nymphae monita et deus auctor Apollo.1
1 Aeneid, x, 333-336.
Vergil, Aeneid 8.333-336 (tr. J.W. Mackail):
Me, cast out from my country and following the utmost limits of the sea, all-powerful Fortune and irreversible doom settled in this region; and my mother the Nymph Carmentis' awful warnings and Apollo's divine counsel drove me hither.
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