[457] See on 1. 3. Here as in other places where ‘ille’ may appear pleonastic it has a rhetorical force, fixing attention on the person who is spoken of. ‘Now with the right hand showering blows, now, he, the same man, with his left.’ The force might be given variously in English, ‘now as furiously with his left,’ ‘now, brave man, with his left.’ We feel that that tremendous personality is impressing itself upon Dares. Med. has ‘nunc deinde.’
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