[470] Heyne removed the comma which used to be placed after ‘telis.’ ‘Telis et luce aena’ is evidently a hendiadys. ‘Luce aena’ is from Il. 13. 340, αὐγὴ χαλκείη. ‘Exsultat’ may either indicate motion of the body, or that Pyrrhus, as we should say, is in his glory, or both. Gellius (2. 3) says he once saw a most ancient copy of the second book, supposed to have been Virg.'s own, in which the spelling ‘aena’ was corrected into ‘ahena.’
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