Tuesday, August 17, 2021
The Likeness of Children to Parents
Vergil, Aeneid 4.327-330 (Dido to Aeneas; tr. J.W. Mackail):
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At least if before thy flight a child of thine had been clasped in my arms, if a tiny Aeneas were playing in my hall, whose face might yet image thine, I would not think myself ensnared and deserted utterly.Arthur Stanley Pease, commentary on line 329:
saltem si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset
ante fugam suboles, si quis mihi parvulus aula
luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore referret,
non equidem omnino capta ac deserta viderer.
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