[362] “Hypallage: nam non omnem cursum prospera dixit religio, sed omnis religio dixit prosperum cursum.” Serv. There is another reading ‘omnis,’ found in Pal. and Gud. a m. pr., and adopted by Ribbeck; but Virg. probably chose to vary the expression in the two clauses, saying in the first that there were favourable prognostics of the whole of Aeneas' voyage, in the second that the divine voices were unanimous in favour of his journeying to Italy.
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