[158] Super, ‘above the lions,’ precludes Lersch's idea (A. V. p. 126) that the figure of Ida was in the stern. ‘Ida’ may be either a carved human figure representing the mountain, or a painting of the mountain itself. The Trojans had built their fleet under the shadow of Ida (3. 5, 6), and the form of the mountain would remind them that they were taking their home with them to their new settlement.
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