[86] Genus is explained by ‘mansuram urbem.’ Comp. 1. 5, 6, “dum conderet urbem Inferretque deos Latio: genus unde Latinum.” So the parallel 5. 735, “Tum genus omne tuum, et quae dentur moenia, disces.” 1. 380, which is also parallel in language, might suggest a different interpretation, ‘genus’ being taken of ancestry; but though the Trojans have ultimately to seek for the original seat of their race, it is not till after Apollo's reply, vv. 94 foll., that they know that they have to do so. ‘Altera Troiae Pergama:’ the city is regarded as already existing in the persons of those who are to inhabit it. See on 2. 703. ‘Troiae Pergama:’ in Hom. the citadel of Troy is called Πέργαμος; but later writers, beginning with Stesichorus, talk of πέργαμα Τροίης, as if the name were a generic one for a citadel. Etymologists connect it with πύργος, like “berg” and “burg.”
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