[479] Eum and ‘eo’ seem awkward in dignified poetry; but they are doubtless introduced significantly, Dido not wishing to mention the name or even give him a title of any kind. Gossrau observes that the poets object to “eius” more than to any other case of the pronoun, perhaps because the quantity of the first syllable makes it more emphatic than the rest. “‘Eo solvat,’ h. e. amore in eum. Usitatior est compositio ‘solvere aliquem luctu, amore’ quam ‘solvere hominem homine.’” Wund.
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