  "To Raghu's son my chariot lend." “Analogous to this passage of the RÁmÁyana, where Indra sends to RÁma his own chariot, his own charioteer, and his own arms, is the passage in the Æneid where Venus descending from heaven brings celestial arms to her son Æneas when he is about to enter the battle: At Venus Æthereos inter dea candida nimbos Dona fereus aderat;… … Arma sub adversa posuit radiantia quercum. Ille, deÆ donis et tanto lÆtus honore, Expleri nequit, atque oculus per singula volvit, Miraturque, interque manus et brachia versat Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem, Fatiferumque ensem, loricam ex Ære rigentem. (Æneidos, lib. VIII)” Gorresio. |
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