[780] Exsilia in the plural has some rhetorical force here, as multiplying the troubles of Aeneas. In 3. 4 it is used distributively. ‘Arandum’ is used strictly with ‘aequor,’ loosely with ‘exsilia.’ Virg. seems as if he might have imitated Aesch. Supp. 1006, πρὸς ταῦτα μὴ πάθωμεν ὧν πολὺς πόνος Πολὺς δὲ πόντος οὕνεκ᾽ ἠρόθη δορί. The resemblance would be still closer if we might follow the margin of Gud. in substituting ‘longum’ for ‘vastum.’
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