[602] Quo Rom., which Ribbeck adopts, supposing the passage to be incomplete, Virg. having intended to prefix something about Tantalus. πατὴρ ὑπερκρέμασε καρτερὸν αὐτῷ λίθον, τὸν αἰεὶ μενοινῶν κεφαλᾶς βαλεῖν εὐφροσύνας ἀλᾶται Pind. l. c. “Miser inpendens magnum timet aere saxum Tantalus, ut fama est, cassa formidine torpens” Lucr. l. c. ‘Atra:’ the colour increases the horror. “Iam iamque tenet, similisque tenenti Increpuit malis” 12. 754. The hypermeter has a rhetorical effect, the overlapping syllable expressing the just falling stone. Some MSS., including Rom., omit ‘que.’
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