[32] Acti fatis, inasmuch as their destiny forbids them to rest. Comp. “fato profugus,” v. 2. The opposition which Henry supposes between the impulse of the fates and the repulse of Juno, though true in fact, does not seem to be distinctly intended here. They are said to wander round the seas rather than over them, doubtless for variety's sake. In v. 667 below Aeneas is tossed on the sea “omnia circum litora.”
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