[273] This line is omitted by Med., Pal., and several other MSS., while in others it bears the mark of having been added afterwards. Pomponius Sabinus has a note on it, which unfortunately is imperfect, merely containing the words “Nec super secundum Apronianum.” On the one hand it may easily have slipped out, especially if the transcriber was writing from his recollection of Jupiter's speech; on the other hand it may as easily have crept in from that speech. There it was almost necessary, as there is no pronoun in v. 232 to fix the reference pointedly to Aeneas: here the emphatic position of ‘te’ in v. 260 renders the addition needless, though it is still graceful. On the whole it seems best to print the line in brackets.
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