[875] Op. cit. p. 231. He cites Georg. i. 107 and 187 foll.
[876] Sellar, Virgil, p. 232.
[877] Georg. iv. 221 foll.
[878] Georg. ii. 493.
[879] Prof. Hardie recently asked me an explanation of the double altar that we meet with more than once in Virgil in connection with funeral rites: e.g., Ecl. 5. 66; Aen. iii. 305; v. 77 foll. Servius tries to explain this, but clearly did not understand it. Of course I could offer no satisfactory solution. Yet we are both certain that there is a satisfactory one if we could only get at it.
[880] Much has been written about the part of the Fates in the Aeneid and their relation to Jupiter. See Heinze, Vergils epische Technik, p. 286 foll.; Glover, Studies in Virgil, 202 and 277 foll. I may be allowed to refer also to my Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, p. 342 foll.
[881] Aen. i. 257 foll., vi. 756 foll., viii. 615 foll.
[882] Suggestions preliminary to a Study of the Aeneid, p. 36.
[883] It is not likely to strike us unless we read the whole Aeneid through, without distracting our minds with other reading, and this few of us do. I did it some ten years ago; before that the development of character had not dawned on me fully. I later on found it shortly but clearly set forth in Heinze's Vergils epische Technik, p. 266 foll.; and this caused me to read the poem through once more, with the result that I became confirmed in my view, and read a paper on the subject to the Oxford Philological Society, which I have in part embodied in this lecture.
[884] This is dwelt on in Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, p. 124 foll.