condemn this verse as
spurious, with Ernesti. It is wanting in MS. Lips, and ed. Rom.,
and does not appear to have been read by Eustathius.]

[Footnote 648: Compare the "Contemplantes" of Lucan, sub init.,
where the gods seek a similar place of observation.]

[Footnote 649: So [Greek: aleis] in xv. 403. "It is also used in
the same way of a warrior, who, whilst he is preparing to rush on
his enemy, or expecting his attack, draws himself up together,
or, as we say, puts himself in an attitude of attack or
defence."--Buttm. Lexil. p. 258.]

"Why, O AEneas, coming through so great a length of crowd, dost thou
stand against me? Does then thy soul urge thee to fight with me, hoping
that thou wilt govern the horse-breaking Trojans in the place[650] of
Priam? Yet even if thou shalt slay me, not thus will Priam place this
reward in thy hand: for he has sons; and he is himself steady, nor
inconstant. Or, if thou slayest me, have the Trojans cut off for thee an
enclosure[651] of soil surpassing others, suited to vines and the
plough, that thou mayest cultivate it? Still I hope thou wilt effect it
with difficulty. For I think I have at some other time put thee to
flight with my spear. Dost thou not remember when I impetuously drove
thee, when alone, from the oxen, with rapid feet, down the Idaean
mountains? Then indeed thou didst never turn round while flying, but
didst escape thence into Lyrnessus; but I wasted it, having attacked it
with the aid of Minerva and father Jove. The women also I led away
captives, having taken away their day of freedom; but Jove and the other
gods preserved thee. However, I do not think they will protect thee now,
as thou castest in thy mind; but I exhort thee, retiring, to go into the
crowd, nor stand against me, before thou suffer some evil; but [it is] a
fool [who] knows a thing [only] when it is done."

[Footnote 650: [Greek: agti..... basileias] is Gaza's correct
paraphrase.]

[Footnote 651: Cf 194.]

But him AEneas answered in turn, and said:

"Do not think, O son of Peleus, to affright me, like an infant boy, with
words; since I also well know how to utter both threats and reproaches.
But we know each other's race, and we know our parents, hearing the
words of mortal men long since uttered; although by sight, indeed,
neither dost thou know mine, nor I thine. They say, indeed, that thou
art the offspring of renowned Peleus, and of thy mother Thetis, t