[655] “Urbem quam statuo” 1. 573. ‘Mea moenia:’ comp. 1. 437, “O fortunati quorum iam moenia surgunt.” Possibly there may be an implied taunt against her wandering lover, whose city is still to build. Some MSS. reverse the order of this and the following line, “non male,” says Ribbeck: but Dido follows the natural order of her own thoughts, not the order of time. Serv. strangely constructs ‘statui’ with ‘vidi’ as pass. inf.
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