[343] Colerem seems to be used in two somewhat different senses with ‘urbem’ and ‘reliquias,’ the notion in the first case being that of inhabiting, in the second of paying respect. Aeneas means to say that he would inhabit Troy again, and thus honour the relics of its former state. The imperfect, as contrasted with the pluperfect v. 344, may thus be explained as speaking of a continuing act, so that we need not think with Wund. of the definite action of sacrificing at the graves of the departed, which he ingeniously remarks might be spoken of in the imperfect, as repeated once a year. ‘Manerent,’ like ‘colerem,’ of restoration to permanence; the expression however is doubtless meant to intimate that the restoration would efface the memory of the fall, reminding us of the language of 2. 56. ‘Priam's lofty halls would still be standing.’
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