[311] The quiver may have been actually Amazonian, as the Amazons came to help the Trojans (see 1. 490); the arrows too may have been Thracian, Thrace being allied with Troy (3. 15), as Gossrau observes, adding however, what is as likely, that Virg. may have merely added the epithets as a poetical way of saying that the things were the best of their kind, as he seems to have done G. 3. 345.
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