Sunday, May 25, 2025
The Color of the Rising Sun
Vergil, Aeneid 7.26 (tr. J.W. Mackail):
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Yellow Dawn shone in her rosy car.T.E. Page ad loc.:
Aurora in roseis fulgebat lutea bigis.
lutea] 'saffron-coloured'; Hom. Il. 8.1 Ἠὼς κροκόπεπλος. Bentley, who had apparently never watched the sun rise, thought the epithet inconsistent with roseis, for which he substituted croceis, and Ribbeck variis.Bentley made the conjecture in his note on Lucan's Pharsalia 4.125.
