[136] Operata has not its sacrificial sense here, as Serv. thinks, but merely denotes employment, as in Hor. 1 Ep. 2. 29, “In cute curanda plus aequo operata iuventus.” Marrying and giving in marriage and cultivation of the soil are two natural symptoms of settled life (“quae res ostendebat magnam fiduciam manendi,” as Donatus says), though there is something a little quaint to our notions in the juxtaposition. See on 2. 378, 654. For the synizesis see on 1. 73.
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