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[766] The captives formed a prominent feature in the representations, pictorial or narrative, of the sack of Troy. They figured in a painting of Polygnotus described by Pausanias 10. 25, 26, and they give the name to the Troades of Euripides. With the scene here portrayed we may comp. Aesch. Ag. 326 foll.: “οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀμφὶ σώμασιν πεπτωκότες ἀνδρῶν κασιγνήτων τε καὶ φυταλμίων παῖδες γερόντων οὐκέτ᾽ ἐξ ἐλευθέρου δέρης ἀποιμώζουσι φιλτάτων μόρον.
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The structure of the line reminds us, as it was possibly intended to do, of v. 238.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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