[662] There is no occasion to separate this line from what precedes with Wagn. and Forb., as vv. 670, 671 prove. “Daphnis me malus urit” E. 8. 83, where the anxiety is that of love.—‘Sub noctem’ may be explained by observing that the action has arrived at evening. Having set her son on the way to Carthage, Venus is not at rest. She is alarmed at the warmth of his reception, and knowing that Ascanius has been sent for to the banquet, at the last moment she proposes to substitute Cupid for him. But there seems also a reference to the common thought that night aggravates rather than soothes anxiety, for which Henry comp. 4. 522 foll. ‘Cura recursat,’ 12. 802.
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