All these places were close to each other in Etruria, a few miles north of Rome.
XCIV.

It is probable that this passage was left unfinished by Virgil.
The simile is taken from Homer, and used here in two different ways, the poet evidently postponing his final decision as to which he would adopt, until he revised the poem.
XCV.

Clausus, according to a legend preserved by Livy, was a Sabine who left his own countrymen and joined the Romans.

For this he was rewarded by a gift of land on the Anio.

He was regarded as the ancestor of the Claudian family.
XCVI.