[690] Futurum with ‘ducebam’ as well as with ‘rebar.’ ‘Ducebam animo’ is a fuller expression for the ordinary use of ‘ducere’ i. q. ‘putare.’ Anchises here appears to be speaking of ordinary human expectation, not of prevision. We may suppose his power of foresight not to have been unlimited: at any rate there is much more force here in the expression of the feeling of confidence which human love gives. See on v. 695. ‘Rebar:’ see on 10. 608.
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