Text in Latin; introduction and notes in English.This is the first detailed English commentary on the First Book of the Aeneid since R. S. Conway’s edition, published posthumously in 1935.Sample (page 198)uelamen: one of a number of words of like formation, which were found increasingly useful by the poets, especially Ovid; it occurs first in Lucr. 4. 587. Virgil has fewer than either Lucretius (who coins a good many, e.g. clinamen, frustramen, glomeramen) or Ovid, and most of those that he himself introduces have the older type in -entum as a parallel {e.g. fundamen, G. 4. 161; libamen, 6. 246; stramen, 11. 67); but gestamen (3. 286, 7. 246) and solamen (3. 661, 10. 493, 859) are without such parallel forms. See Norden, Ennius und Vergilius, pp. 27 f f .; cf. Hollis on Ovid, Met. 8. 729.650.ornatus. . . Helenae : an ominous association: Virgil makes Aeneas seem extraordinarily insensitive, and the sinister character of the gift is further underlined in inconcessos hymenaeos (651).