170 Scipiadas, Greek patronymic form = Lat. Scīpĭōnēs.
maxime Caesar = Augustus.
171-172 After Actium, 31 B.C., Augustus spent more than a year in reducing and settling the East (imbellem Indum) whose forces had been wielded by Antony.—Sidgwick.
173 Saturnia tellus, in allusion to Saturn’s reign in Latium in the age of gold.
174-175 tibi res . . . fontes = for thee I enter on themes of ancient glory and skill (i.e. in agriculture) and dare to unseal (recludere) the sacred springs; res laudis, the theme of the Aeneid, res artis, of the Georgics.
176 Ascraeum carmen = the song of Ascra, i.e. the Georgics, because Hesiod (author of Works and Days to which Vergil is much indebted) was born at Ascra, near Helicon, in Boeotia.—S.
CONTEST WITH CARTHAGE, 264-202 B.C.
The Vision of Anchises.—Rome’s Heroes.
‘Ille triumphata Capitolia ad alta Corintho