[798] Donatus read ‘ex Ilio,’ which Heins. prefers; but it could only be scanned by assuming a synizesis, and ‘exsilio’ was evidently read by Silius, who imitates it, “Dux erat exsilio collectis Marte Metellus” (10. 420, cited by Forb.). For the construction comp. “venturum excidio” 1. 22. ‘Pubem’ is meant to include vaguely the whole body, or at any rate the men, ‘virosque,’ not to designate the youth as a separate class, as Heyne thinks. Perhaps there is some bitterness in the expression, “pubem, non bello, sed exsilio collectam.”
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