[313] “‘Primi transmittere’ figura Graeca est, ut primi transirent,” Serv. ‘Transmittere’ takes an acc. of the thing sent across (“transmissae classes” 3. 403), and so here of the passage, though in Greek we should distinguish them as the acc. of the object and the cognate. In 4. 154 the acc. is of the space passed over, the passage being put into the instrumental abl. Scaliger, Poetics 4. 48, observes “Ecce cum tractu morae videtur ipse versus stare.”
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