Note 17 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE
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Glover, 16, repeats Henry’s praise of
Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna. VI. 270.
Surcharged precision intensifies
Lucet via longo Ordine flammarum, et late discriminat agros. XI. 143.
But the same distinctness, at once precise and picturesque, may be found almost anywhere in the Æneid; it is Vergil’s habit, and it is never obtrusive.