... . Here non is to be taken closely with laeva, si fata fuissent being explained as in v. 433 below, had fate so willed. Heyne's other explanation, si fata non fuissent, had it not been fated that Troy should fall, though supported by Od. 8. 511, ai)=sa ga\r h)=n, is harsh, as we should rather have expected si non mens laeva. A third possible view, which would make laeva the predicate to bo...