[376] Diversa per aequora vectos may merely mean ‘over various seas,’ as in v. 756, “Omnibus errantem terris et fluctibus;” or we may take it with Heyne as ‘out of our course.’ He quotes Od. 9. 261 (which Virg. doubtless had in view, as the entire passage shows), Οἴκαδε ἱέμενοι, ἄλλην ὁδόν, ἄλλα κέλευθα Ἤλθομεν: but the other sense of ‘diversa’ might be sup ported from the previous lines, Ἡμεῖς τοι Τροίηθεν ἀποπλαγχθέντες Ἀχαιοὶ Παντοίοις ἀνέμοισιν ὑπὲρ μέγα λαῖτμα θαλάσσης.
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