419 plurimus = in huge mass, with the predicate imminet.
421 magalia = huts, a Carthaginian (Phoenician) word. Cf. μέγαρον.
422 strata viarum = stratas vias = the paved roads.—Sidgwick.
423, 424, 425 ducere . . . moliri . . . subvolvere . . . optare . . . concludere, dependent on the idea of eagerness or striving in instant.—S.
426 Vergil is thinking, as often, of Roman institutions, and not of what was appropriate to heroic times. Cf. Aen. i. 507-8.
430-436 This simile is a reproduction of Georg. iv. 162-169. Cf. Milton, Par. Lost, i. 768:
‘As bees
In springtime, when the sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive.’
432 līquentia = liquid, from līquor, dep. Elsewhere Vergil uses lĭquens from lĭqueo.