[28] Virg. recapitulates the heads of the story briefly, and, to one unacquainted with it, unintelligibly. ‘Magnum reginae amorem’ is not, what it would seem from the context it must mean, the passion of the queen Pasiphae, but that of the princess (comp. 1. 273: so Valerius Flaccus uses it repeatedly of Medea: see Forc.) Ariadne. ‘Sed enim’ 1. 19 note, 2. 164.
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