[575] Noto eodem, the same gale, “procacibus Austris” v. 536. ‘Compulsus:’ ‘compello’ like “cogo” means originally to drive together to the same spot, hence to drive together into straits, constrain (“compellere aliquem in angustias”). Either sense would be tenable here. ‘Compulsus’ may mean either driven as you were driven, in which case we might take ‘eodem’ adverbially (comp. Caes. B. G. 1. 4, “Omnis clientes suos eodem conduxit”), or driven by stress of weather (‘Noto’). Comp. generally 7. 263 foll. “Ipse modo Aeneas . . . adveniat.” ‘Atque utinam’ E. 10. 35.
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