Note 105 — ÆNEÏS, BOOK V.
Reading edition
Dr Carey reads grace; but Dryden here uses place, for eminence of rank. Ascanius was the last in order, but the first in dignity; this, by the way, is an Ovidian point superinduced upon the simplicity of Virgil:
Extremus, formaque ante omnes pulcher, Iulus.