[566] Comp. Catull. 66 (68). 90, “Troia virum et virtutum omnium acerba cinis.” This reference however does not prove, as Wagn. thinks, that ‘virtutesque virosque’ is to be taken as a hendiadys. The natural sense is ‘the gallant deeds and the heroes.’ ‘Tanti incendia belli:’ comp. Cic. pro Marcell. 9, “belli civilis incendium salute patriae restinguere.” The same metaphor occurs de Rep. 1. 1 and elsewhere in Cic. ‘Tanta,’ the reading before Heins., has no first-class authority. In the parallel 7. 222 foll. the siege and fall of Troy are also expressed by a metaphor, but it is from a tempest and a deluge.
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