[540] The legitimacy of Neoptolemus seems never to have been questioned in any way, so that Priam means no more than that his nature belies his lineage, as Dido 4. 365 (comp. by Serv.) says, “Nec tibi diva parens, generis nec Dardanus auctor.” So Pyrrhus understands it, “Degenerem Neoptolemum” v. 549.
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