[172] Menelaus is angry at being passed by Antilochus, Il. l. c., but the tears are borrowed from Diomed, ib. 385, when Apollo takes away his whip just as he is trying to pass Eumelus. ‘Ossibus’ is taken by Forb. as a second dative, epexegetic of ‘iuveni:’ but it seems simpler to regard it as an abl., as it doubtless is in 9. 66, “duris dolor ossibus ardet,” which he quotes.
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