caa a22 4500 386319790 CHVBK 20180307111621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500005046 doi S0068673500005046 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500005046 Harrison Stephen Corpus Christi College, Oxford Vergil on Kingship: the first simile of the Aeneid [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Harrison] At Aeneid 1.148-56 Neptune's stilling of the storm roused against Aeneas and the Trojans by Juno is compared with the calming of a mob by a great statesman: ac ueluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est seditio saeuitque animis ignobile uulgus iamque faces et saxa uolant, furor arma ministrat. tum pietate grauem ac meritis si forte uirum quem conspexere silent arrectisque auribus astant; ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet: sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam prospiciens genitor caeloque inuectus aperto flectit equos curruque uolans dat lora secundo. As has been often remarked, this simile, prominently placed as the first in the poem, is evidently programmatic for the value system of the Aeneid. The ‘pietate grauem ac meritis uirum' standing up to and defeating the violence of the mob gives a highly Roman rôle-model (not always successfully followed) for Aeneas, the destined hero overcoming the forces of irrationality, something confirmed by the details of the poem as well as the events of its plot; Aeneas is similarly proclaimed by the Sybil in the Underworld as ‘pietate insignis et armis' (6.402), while the soothing words of the statesman to the mob (153 ‘ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet') are clearly echoed in the soothing words Aeneas addresses to his storm-shaken sailors in the very next scene of the poem (197 ‘dictis maerentia pectora mulcet'). Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1988 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 55-59 0068-6735 34<55 1988 34 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harrison Stephen Corpus Christi College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 55-59 0068-6735 34<55 1988 34 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge