[795] Ignotae is another touch of exaggeration, as elsewhere the Trojans speak of Sicily as familiar and friendly, above vv. 24, 28 foll., 630. But she may call it so with reference to the separation between Aeneas and those left behind, who will be strangers to him henceforth. ‘Ignota terra’ is read by Med., Gud. a m. pr., first Mentelian, &c.: but the dat. which is found in fragm. Vat. is more poetical and less obvious, and so more likely to have been altered. Rom. exhibits the error in its transitional state, reading ‘ignotae terra,’ and the original reading of Pal. was perhaps ‘ignota terrae.’
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