[319] Venatrix, ‘as a huntress:’ comp. 11. 648 note, and perhaps ib. 780; also below v. 493. ‘Dederat comam diffundere ventis,’ a Grecism; comp. Hor. 1 Od. 26. 2, “Tradam protervis in mare Creticum Portare ventis.” It is difficult to obtain an exact grammatical analysis of the expression, which may be explained either by making ‘comam diffundere’ jointly the object of ‘dederat’ (‘gave the dishevelling of her hair to the winds’), or by making ‘comam’ the object and ‘diffundere’ an epexegetical acc. (‘her hair, namely, its dishevelling’); or, lastly, by making ‘comam’ the object and ‘diffundere’ a cognate acc. expressing the effect of the gift.
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