[39] Scinditur in studia contraria implies that they take opposite sides, apparently those of Thymoetes and Capys, with warmth, ‘studia’ being almost an anticipation of Tacitus' use of the word in the sense of factions, “Ultio senatum in studia diduxerat,” Hist. 4. 6. The line is doubtless meant, as it is generally quoted, to characterize a mob contemptuously; but it points as much to party spirit as to giddiness.
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