[454] Tectorum inter se seems to mean merely that by entering this door you might pass from room to room, as you might by entering the front door, only from a different direction. ‘Relicti’ seems best connected with ‘a tergo,’ as a sort of periphrasis for “postica.” Henry's ‘abandoned in the confusion of combat’ is hardly so good, and his proposal to connect ‘a tergo’ with the whole of what precedes is met by the observation just made, that Virg. brings out the several characteristics of the door piecemeal, while giving what are apparently four synonymes for it.
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