[541] Bonus, good-natured or kind. So “bonus Aeneas” v. 770., 11. 106. Here it expresses the good feeling which led Eurytion not to stickle for his right under the circumstances. ‘Praelato invidit honori,’ grudged the rank or prize set above his own. Forb. remarks that Virg. might if he pleased have said “praelato invidit honorem,” or, as Markland conjectures, “honoris;” but ‘honori’ is more artificial and more Virgilian. Heyne erroneously understood ‘praelato’ as = ‘praerepto,’ Oberlin on Tac. A. 5. 1 as ‘delato.’ Ribbeck reads ‘honore’ (already conj. by Peerlkamp) from Pal. a m. p., apparently separating it from ‘praelato.’
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