[318]
Excipere of receiving in succession,
G. 2. 354 note (see also on G. 4.
207), perhaps with an actual reference to
the metaphor in ‘deiectam,’ as in Ov. M.
11. 785 (comp. by Forb.) “Tethys miserata
cadentem Molliter excepit.” The expression
will then be very similar to the wellknown
lines in Shaksp. Hamlet, Act 1, sc.
5, though in Virg.'s words there is no reproach:
“O Hamlet, what a falling off was there,
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went hand in hand even with
the vow
I made to her in marriage; and to decline
Upon a wretch, whose natural gifts were
poor
To those of mine!
”
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