Greece & Rome (Second Series)

Table of Contents - 1998 - Volume 45, Issue 02  

Research Article

Virgil's Pious Man and Menenius Agrippa: A Note on Aeneid1.148–53

James Morwood

Just as when disorder arises among the people of a great city and the common mob runs riot, wild passion finds weapons for men's hands and torches and rocks start flying; at such a time if people chance to see a man who has some weight among them for his goodness and his services to the state, they fall silent, standing and listening with all their attention while his words command their passions and soothe their hearts… (trans. David West)