[401] “Nec equi caeca condemur in alvo,” 9. 152. See on vv. 19, 20. The argument there drawn from this place rests on the assumption that the cowardice described here is not likely to have been shown by any of the leaders of the Greeks: Virg. however may have chosen to disparage them here as he has done 6. 489 foll.
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