[147:5.] Torquatus. (T. Manlius) won his title (with a gold neck-chain) by slaying a gigantic Gaul.
[147:6.] Camillus, returning from banishment, drove back the victorious Gauls, winning back the captured standards.
[147:12.] Father-in-law and son-in-law. Cæsar and Pompey.
[147:30.] Fabii. Quintus Fabius wore out the strength of Hannibal, constantly refusing to be drawn into a pitched battle. Hence “Fabian policy” means delay.
[148:10.] Quirinus. Romulus.
[149:7.] Laurentian. Laurentum, a town on the coast of Latium, a city of King Latinus.
[149:14.] Gate of ivory.
“A recent writer has reminded us that dreams after midnight were accounted true both by the Greeks and the Romans. Hence he concluded that Virgil, in making Æneas issue by the gate of false dreams, is indicating that Æneas comes forth from the underworld before midnight. As to the time of Æneas’ stay in the lower world see lines 255, 535-539. He is in the land of the shades from dawn until nearly midnight.”—Knapp.
“By those who think this book a symbolic exhibition of certain mysteries, the legend of the Gate, with the dismissal of Æneas from the ivory one, is considered a warning that the language may not be taken literally, or understood except by the initiated.”—Greenough.