Excudent alii

A detailed analysis of Aeneid 6.847–53. In one of the loftiest passages of the Aeneid, we have seen Virgil use poetic, verbal, lexical, grammatical, syntactical means of a simple, sober character (apart, clearly from the exchange of ducere and excudere, of course). He may perhaps have had in mind the age of Ennius and Cato the Censor, two writers who might actually have appreciated the austere content and manner of these verses.